Gain Quotes
Sad Quotes about Gain

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold
is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
- Thomas Jefferson

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates

Our loved ones -
whether by blood, by marriage, or by choice -
are delicate treasures.
If we hold them too close, they break -
as a butterfly would.
By honoring and enjoying
the freedom of our loved ones,
we gain our own freedom.
Have the courage to trust that
the beautiful butterflies of your life
will return - or not - as life intends.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Skillful pilots gain their reputation
from storms and tempest.
- Epicurus

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience
in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

No pain, no gain.
- Anonymous

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best way to gain self-confidence
is to do what you are afraid to do.
- Anonymous

For everything you have missed,
you have gained something else,
and for everything you gain,
you lose something else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it.
Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
- Epictetus

All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony.
Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace.
- Rumi

We Gain All Genuine Insight From Questions and Experiments.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The end of labor is to gain leisure.
- Aristotle

Gain happiness by living in the present -
without regret for the past or fear of the future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience
in which I must stop and look fear in the face.
I say to myself, I've lived through this
and can take the next thing that comes along.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

It costs you nothing to make another happy -
and you gain your true self through the act of spreading joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I choose to adapt to the circumstances in which I find myself.
I choose to be flexible in my dealings with those around me.
I understand that my way is not the only way -
that inner peace comes from respecting the ways of others,
and that, if I am open, I may gain great insights and happiness
from the ideas and traditions of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

On the ordinary view of each species
having been independently created,
we gain no scientific explanation.
- Charles Darwin

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain
advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
- Napoleon Hill

Working at a job you hate is unlikely
to bring you either happiness or success.
Do what you love. You are far more likely to gain success -
recognition and financial reward - if you are working
at something that inspires and excites you.
And, whether wealth follows or not, you will be happy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If American men are obsessed with money,
American women are obsessed with weight.
The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss,
and I do not know which talk is the more boring.
- Marya Mannes

All in the dark we grope along,
And if we go amiss
We learn at least which path is wrong,
And there is gain in this.
We do not always win the race
By only running right;
We have to tread the mountain's base
Before we reach its height.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness
in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn
sunsets exquisitely dying.
- Langston Hughes

One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.
- Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth,
down an eighth -it's like playing a slot machine.
I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.
- Ted Turner

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings,
so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
- Socrates

To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune,
when you will gain a tear from those who listen,
this is worth the trouble.
- Aeschylus

But in practice, if often comes down to not suffering
a loss as big as the huge gain you made a while ago.
- Merton Miller

Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you
will never be asked to do a thing.
- Paul Theroux

If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to
we gain through the agency of faith,
and what elevation must it give to human character.
- Matthew Simpson

It's better to be hurt by the truth than to gain satisfaction from the lies.
- David Allan

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities
that gain esteem and praise,
are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.
- Joseph Addison

The gain is not the having of children;
it is the discovery of love and how to be loving.
- Polly Berrien Berends

Today, unless women gain jobs and athletic scholarships
commensurate with their percentage of the population,
feminists scream discrimination.
- Marvin Olasky

There is no change - I'm as deep or as shallow as I ever was.
What's new is on-the-job experience.
This is what you gain with years.
- Gordon Getty

No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless
some stupidity is mixed in with it.
- Fernando Pessoa

It's not right to say that our loss in Vietnam turned out to be a gain.
But lessons were learned.
And they were the right lessons.
- Tom Clancy

During my solitude, conflicting thoughts increased;
but much exercise of soul had the effect of causing
the scriptures to gain complete ascendancy over me.
- John Nelson Darby

Being in a band is always a compromise.
Provided that the balance is good, what you lose in compromise,
you gain by collaboration.
- Mike Rutherford

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom,
lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
- Plato

As I've been able to once again gain the benefits of speed work,
I'm enjoying my running more and more.
- Frank Shorter

Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.
- Ovid

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom,
not a guide by which to live.
- Robert Kennedy

Unfortunately, in collective bargaining one party or
the other too often tries to gain an advantage -
a bargain,
like buying something in a store for less than it is worth.
- Charles E. Wilson

Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to
assume that there is a fixed pie,
that one party can gain only at the expense of another.
- Milton Friedman

He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.
- Titus Maccius Plautus

By his own efforts man could never gain the true and desired riches.
- Joseph Franklin Rutherford

I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving
success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that,
for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.
- Alan Greenspan

It is a proof of our natural bias to evil,
that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good;
but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.
- Augustus Hare

To play well you must feel tranquil and at peace.
I have never been troubled by nerves in golf because
I felt I had nothing to lose and everything to gain.
- Harry Vardon

First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.
- Horatio Nelson

The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world;
I am like a snowball -
the further I am rolled the more I gain.
- Susan B. Anthony

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.
- George Herbert

Already, China has undermined U.S.
foreign policy in efforts to gain access to oil resources in Iran and Sudan.
We simply cannot separate the political and economic values of oil.
- Jo Ann Emerson

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.
- Rabindranath Tagore

If the adjustment made by a court can be accepted or not,
it will be refused whenever the men can gain more by continuing the strike,
with whatever of violence that involves.
- John Bates Clark

For electronica music, David Linton has been doing
this series called Unity Gain,
which is pretty cool.
- Jim Coleman

Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs.
principles based on personal gain, and consider the
basis of your own principles.
- Marilyn vos Savant

If you gain, you gain all.
If you lose, you lose nothing.
Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.
- Blaise Pascal

We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves.
We encourage one another in mediocrity.
I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.
- Charles Lamb

Satirists gain the applause of others through fear,
not through love.
- William Hazlitt

By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain
control of Europe to maintain its empire.
- Barbara Amiel

Now I understand what was happening.
I don't particularly gain water; I don't have water retention.
- Suzanne Somers

You must continue to gain expertise,
but avoid thinking like an expert.
- Denis Waitley

One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone
is to beat him at politeness.
- Josh Billings

It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general,
for it helps to form a habit of peace,
and community habits long continued become standards of conduct.
- Elihu Root

None are so eager to gain new experience as those who
don't know how to make use of the old ones.
- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I
also say it is good to fall,
battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
- Walt Whitman

In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax,
in order to gain credit in the world.
- Angela Carter

There's no greater way to gain an audience's sympathy
than by being unfortunate.
- Seth Green

'Tis nobler to lose honor to save the lives of men
than it is to gain honor by taking them.
- David Borenstein