Gains Quotes - Page 3

Storm is prerequisite to mental gain

Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he - That when they speak truth they are not believed.

It's wrong to deprive someone else of a pleasure so that you can enjoy one yourself, but to deprive yourself of a pleasure so that you can add to someone else's enjoyment is an act of humanity by which you always gain more than you lose.

The more I work, the more I see things differently, that is, everything gains in grandeur every day, becomes more and more unknown, more and more beautiful. The closer I come, the grander it is, the more remote it is.

The will of God is always a bigger thing than we bargain for.

There's always a possibility of richer maturation - of taking more and more responsibility for yourself and for your life...And this is what I hope...to make you understand how much you gain by taking re-sponsibility for every emotion, every movement you make, every thought you have...We touch each other by honestly being what we are, not intentionally making contact.

Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise.

Station is the paradox of the world of my people, the limitation of our power within the hunger for power. It is gained through treachery and invites treachery against those who gain it. Those most powerful in Menzoberranzan spend their days watching over their shoulders, defending against the daggers that would find their backs. Their deaths usually come from the front." -Drizzt Do'Urden

We've always known you can gain circulation or viewers by cheapening the product, and now you're finding the bad driving out the good.

I had to gain experience as I did not have a technical education.

She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.

Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.

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

I write against violence. I write against fascism. I write against one person dominating another.

As you gain experience, you mature as an individual, and along with that comes the confidence that you have the ability to solve problems.

The most efficient action, the most significant testimony to nonviolence, is living a life in which there is no violence-showing that such a life is possible, and even not more difficult than a life of gain, nor more unpleasant than a life of pleasure, nor less natural than an 'ordinary' life.

Both dreams and neurotic dream-states have as their function the avoidance of displeasure, but the dream-states also serve to provide a positive pleasure gain.

You must accept the fact that there is no help but self-help. I cannot tell you how to gain freedom since freedom exists within you.

Religion is never the problem; it's the people who use it to gain power.

We are now at the point where we must decide whether we are to honour the concept of a plural society which gains strength through diversity, or whether we are to have bitter fragmentation that will result in perpetual tension and strife.

I already accepted that I relate to nothing. The more I gain, the more lonely it is I know I'm like a ghost.

Maybe we don't put our young people in situations often enough where they're allowed to fail. When you fail you gain experience, and with enough experience, you don't fail as often.

It is the duty of every one to strive to gain and deserve a good reputation.

Once you have a major success with assertiveness, you learn that it's a much healthier path than being a doormat to the insensitive folks. You gain respect for yourself, have more time for your priorities, and develop authentic and healthier relationships.

Some of those that work forces, are the same that burn crosses...