Gains Quotes - Page 20

In order to gain anything, you must first lose everything

In the gain or loss of one race all the rest have equal claim.

Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth, and set down as gain each day that fortune grants.

Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin.

The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.

The market-place, the eager love of gain, Whose aim is vanity, and whose end is pain!

Now we have a whole series of problems - energy, environment, proliferation - which go beyond the nation. And we also know that a conflict between major powers would be a catastrophe for which there is no compensation in anything you can gain.

I counted solely on the clarity of expression of my work to gain my ends.

Give up control to gain control.

He that gains well and spends well needs no count book.

What you gain in internal knowledge goes from one lifetime to another. It is not wasted. Unlike those stone edifices that will fade, your internal knowledge will stay with you from one incarnation to another.

By slow, thoughtful watching, you can gain much, as against working up a wild, panicky condition.

Superiority to Fate Is difficult to gain 'Tis not conferred of Any But possible to earn.

I find it remarkable that virtually all of the large difference in labor supply between France and the United States is due to differences in tax systems. I expected institutional constraints on the operation of labor markets and the nature of the unemployment benefit system to be more important. I was surprised that the welfare gain from reducing the intratemporal tax wedge is so large.

I am pleased and reassured by the fact that a lot of younger playwrights seem to pay me some attention and gain some nourishment from what I do.

I acknowledge that I should not like to see again such loss as I sustained on the 23rd September, even if attended by such a gain.

Deep thoughts (come) from a deep well. Society is useful because when we see ourselves reflected through others we can gain a deeper understanding of ourselves.

As we gain experience with the Holy Ghost, we learn that the intensity with which we feel the Spirit's influence is not always the same.

I have thought about dropping an atomic bomb on Sydney but I wouldn't gain anything from it.

If you focus only on yourself and neglect others, you will lose; but you will gain if you value others as much as you cherish yourself.

The pursuit of material gain is ultimately empty when measured against eternity.

How can one bargain for anything that is worth while? And what else is worth bargaining for?

Sincerely to aspire after virtue, is to gain her; and zealously to labour after her wages, is to receive them.

Is it not gain to have diminished the faith that it was the duty of the wretched and the miserable to be content with the lot in life which providence had awarded them?

Depriving yourself will, ironically enough, lead to rebelling and weight gain.