Gains Quotes - Page 13

It is much safer to be subject than it is to command. Many live in obedience more from necessity than from love. Such become discontented and dejected on the slightest pretext; they will never gain peace of mind unless they subject themselves wholeheartedly for the love of God.

there is no gain without risk, perhaps no risk without love.

They are not wise, then, who stand forth to buffet against Love; for Love rules the gods as he will, and me.

Once a person gains experience and a good reputation, it takes less and less money to create bigger and bigger investments.

Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.

He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another's experience. [Lat., Feliciter sapit qui alieno periculo sapit.]

To gain control over the quality of experience, one needs to learn how to build enjoyment into what happens day in, day out.

There's something special for everyone to do. Remember, no experience is a bad experience unless you gain nothing from it.

What should we gain by a definition, as it can only lead us to other undefined terms?

Actually in the moment in which the idea has life, when it's listened to read, engaged with, acted on stage, it gains another dimension, it becomes three dimensional.

The businessman is only tolerable so long as his gains can be held to bear some relation to what, roughly and in some sense, his activities have contributed to society.

Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.

What we gain by experience is not worth that we lose in illusion

We gain no wisdom by imposing our way on others.

A mutual arrangement, I repeat, is the only satisfactory medium whereby the present system can be carried on with any degree of satisfaction, and in such an arrangement the employers have more to gain than the workers.

We are going as fast as we can as soon as we can. We're in a race against time, until we run out of money.

Everyone tends to remember the past with greater fervor as the present gains greater importance.

Choose to obey the Lord quickly, always, in quiet times and in storms. As we do, our faith will be strengthened, we will find peace in this life, and we will gain the assurance that we and our families can qualify for eternal life in the world to come.

I'm very disturbed by violence against women when it is violence.

The one profession where you can gain great eminence without ever being right.

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life.

From a real antagonist one gains boundless courage.

We must be willing to learn the lesson that cooperation may imply compromise, but if it brings a world advance it is a gain for each individual nation.

We must lose all for Christ in order to gain all for Christ.