Gains Quotes - Page 18

The victory one would gain after a whole life of work and effort is better than one that is gained sooner.

The paradox of faith is that when we conform our lives to Christ then we gain our true freedom. And its fruit is profound and lasting happiness.

As Mark Weiner puts it, whether you gain 50 pounds or lose 50 pounds, whether you have a sex change operation for that matter, that it doesn't matter, that there is some part of ourselves that we cannot escape.

We must learn to lean upon ourselves; we must learn to plan and execute business enterprises of our own; we must learn to venture our pennies if we would gain dollars.

In social networks, you gain and bestow status through those you associate with.

Psychoanalysis is an attempt to examine a person's self-justifications. Hence it can be undertaken only with the patient's cooperation and can succeed only when the patient has something to gain by abandoning or modifying his system of self-justification.

I felt sure we could gain the upper hand by putting ourselves in the mindset of the Incas.

What do you gain in heaven? You become gods, drink nectar, and get rheumatism. There is less misery there than on earth, but also less truth.

Many people, not just Asians, are more concerned with hustling and getting to meetings with contacts to gain success.

Each of us can, by ploy or gambit, most naturally gain the advantage.

The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition.

We gain so much by quickness, and lose so much by slowness.

Sometimes you must lose everything to gain it again, and the regaining is the sweeter for the pain of loss.

It's easy to gain weight when you're in the studio.

The wealthiest Americans often live as though they and their children had nothing to gain from investments in education, infrastructure, clean-energy, and scientific research.

Let us not overlook so great a gain.

Do thou smile like the rose at loss and gain; For the rose, though its petals be torn asunder, Still smiles on, and it is never cast down.

Philanthropy is the duty of how we should behave when things go wrong for people, and how we can help to make things better for everyone - voluntarily, without being required to do it by the government, and for others, without private gain for ourselves.

When laissez-faire creates instability, the move to a freer market can be something less than pure gain.

Artist, gain knowledge, but know that the greatest guru of all is the guru within.

Universities are fantastic places to gain knowledge on a subject, develop a personal network, explore your character and learn new techniques to approach problems.

No man gains credit for his cowardly courtesies.

No one can cross the boundary into another -- for the simple reason that no one can gain access to himself

During the course of filming 'Top Chef,' I gain 15 lbs., so I'm used to needing two dress sizes.

Even when I was making the first 'Paranormal Activity,' I didn't tell anyone I was making it, not my friends or neighbors or co-workers. I just kind of found that there was nothing to gain by announcing to the world that you're doing something.