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To conquer himself is the greatest victory that man can gain.

To cure us of our immoderate love of gain, we should seriously consider how many goods there are that money will not purchase, and these the best; and how many evils there are that money will not remedy, and these the worst.

To express yourself in freedom, you must die to everything of yesterday. From the 'old', you derive security; from the 'new', you gain the flow.

To gain a testimony, you must nourish it step by step. '[Your testimony] will increase as you make decisions to keep the commandments. As you lift and strengthen others, you will see your testimony continue to develop.'

To gain freedom is to gain simplicity.

To gain support in U.S. Congress and from other nations requires clarity, an acceptable mission and an explicit outcome.

To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.

To gain your own voice you have to forget about having it heard.

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

To gain customer insights, we must understand that we are prisoners of what we know and what we believe.

To gain an overall understanding of oneself does not require looking outward - it requires the strength of looking inward.

To gain a reputation for virtue, grieve over those you injure.

To gain your own voice, forget about having it heard. Become a saint of your own province and your own consciousness.

To gain riches is wise; to pay for riches with happiness is foolish.

To gain the acceptance of your peers is an admirable task, but to truly accept yourself requires a much higher standard.

To many mortals silence great gain brings.

To deny being lovers in order to gain something.That can result in a much worse situation than one can imagine.

To me, this goes beyond disappointing. It shows that we are failing to gain ground on the very conditions we need to reverse to improve our graduation rates and produce more students who are ready for college and the workforce.

To know that all is well, even if late will come to know it, is at least some gain.

To excel is to reach your own highest dream. But you must also help others, where and when you can, to reach theirs. Personal gain is empty if you do not feel you have positively touched another's life.

To tell a lie in cowardice, to tell a lie for gain, or to avoid deserved punishment--are all the blackest of black lies.

To understand another human being you must gain some insight into the conditions which made him what he is.

Treat gain and loss the same.' Don't be Intimidated. Don't make a Big Deal of anything - just accept things as they come to you.

Trivial losses often prove great gains.

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

Unions have been the best anti-poverty program that actually worked and did not cost the government a dime. But as unions grow smaller- not stronger- our ability to act as an economic mechanism to distribute the gains of our work and raise all workers' wages and benefits up is disappearing.

Unfortunately, we live our life in public, so any weight gain or pimple is a national story. I don't get this obsession with weight. It's not only Hollywood; it's our society.

True grace is natural, not artificial, because, however strenuously you strive to gain it, when it is gained it never gives the impression of effort or straining for effect.

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

Watch the functioning of your own mind in a calm and detached manner so you can gain insight into your own behavior.

video games are the comic books of our time... It's a medium that gains no respect among the intelligentsia".

Wealth is not a material gain, but a state of mind.

Visitation of God's presence is a byproduct of worship. However, we don't worship in order to gain His presence. He is worthy to be worshipped whether or not He chooses to show up.

We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. It surmounts or removes all obstacles, overcomes every resisting force and gains its ends in the face of invincible hindrances.

We don't serve God to gain His acceptance; we are accepted so we serve God. We don't follow Him in order to be loved; we are loved so we follow Him.

We follow the codes not because they bring gain, but because we loathe the people we would otherwise become.

We gain or strengthen a testimony by bearing it.

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.

We gain no wisdom by imposing our way on others.

We gain power in our refusal to accept less than we deserve.

Value is that which one acts to gain and/or keep. Virtue is the act by which one aims and/or keeps it.

Various studies indicate that with age people gain more wisdom about life and are somehow happier than younger people. This is especially true if, as we age, we learn how to become more generous, altruistic, and peaceful.

We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward. Extreme party action, if continued in such a time, would ruin the party. Moderation is its only chance. The party out of power gains by all partisan conduct of those in power

We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself.

We can always gain more depth and breadth in our work [as educators]. There are always new discoveries to be made.

We can be consicous of how we tend to ignore or escape anguish rather than understand and accept it. We can be aware that even when we gain insight into these things, we rarely behave differently in the future. Despite our overt resolve, we are still creatures of habit.

We can`t allow racism and xenophobia to gain traction.

We forget that, although each of the liberties which have been won must be defended with utmost vigour, the problem of freedom is not only a quantitative one, but a qualitative one; that we not only have to preserve and increase the traditional freedom, but that we have to gain a new kind of freedom, one which enables us to realize our own individual self; to have faith in this self and in life.

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.

We gain justice, judgment, with years, or else years are in vain.