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Gains without failure is impossible.

Don’t run away from the gains because it comes with pains. If you ever love to go for the sweet honey, be ready to be stung by a busy bee! Go for it anyway!

It shouldn't take a life-changing event for you to change your life.

Never underestimate a plan plus discipline.

Nigeria is a great country, if not, one of the best in the world. It is just that we have rulers who are not leaders, but dealers. They engage in sales of the country's wealth of resources on daily basis for selfish interest and personal gains.

On any given night the stars are endless losses or endless gains. One for the love you experience and one for the love you lose. One for the unfulfilled wish and one for the wish yet to come.

One gains by losing and loses by gaining.

People either build a castle or a dungeon. The former by their virtues, pull people into positive edifices with gainful impression. The later by their vices, push people into negative huts with painful oppression.

If you concentrate on small, manageable steps you can cross unimaginable distances.

A 1940 Gallup poll showed 83 percent of the public was against intervention. A good pretext was needed to gain support from an intransigent public.

According to success do we gain a reputation for judgement.

A churlish courtesy rarely comes but either for gain or falsehood.

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.

Absolute freedom is absolute nonsense! We gain freedom in anything through commitment, discipline, and fixed habit.

All stakeholders must participate in the gains and losses of any particular situation.

Almost all good businesses engage in 'pain today, gain tomorrow' activities.

A Confucian or Jewish love of learning would gain minorities far more than any affirmative action laws we might pass.

A friend will give you immediate feedback and that will be that friend's opinion. An analyst often remains quiet and you hear what you've said and you gain your own insight.

After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?

A good poem looks life straight in the face, unflinching, sincere, equal to revelation through loss or gain.

A hobby is, of course, an abomination, as are all consuming interests and passions that do not lead directly to large, personal gain.

A human life gains lustre and strength only when it is polished and tempered.

Alas! in nature, as in art, we gain only according to our capacity. You cannot put an ocean in a pint pot.

A lesson without pain is meaningless. For you cannot gain something without sacrificing something in return.

All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience.

All policy is a matter of gains and losses, upsides and downsides.

All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth.

A lot of people would enter restricted sites just to say they can, and then log out. Today, everything related to hacking seems to be for monetary gain.

A man's enjoyment of all good things is in exact proportion to the pains he has undergone to gain them.

A man who loses his money gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.

An athlete gains more & more strength by facing resistance. Similarly in life, we only become stronger when we face the resistance of our struggles.

A man gains no possession better than a good woman, nothing more horrible than a bad one.

A minuscule 4 percent of funds produce market-beating after-tax results with a scant 0.6 percent (annual) margin of gain. The 96 percent of funds that fail to meet or beat the Vanguard 500 Index Fund lose by a wealth-destroying margin of 4.8 percent per annum.

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.

An aggressor nation or extremist group could gain control of critical switches and derail passenger trains, or trains loaded with lethal chemicals.

An alliance is like a chain. It is not made stronger by adding weak links to it. A great power like the United States gains no advantage and it loses prestige by offering, indeed peddling, its alliances to all and sundry. An alliance should be hard diplomatic currency, valuable and hard to get, and not inflationary paper from the mimeograph machine in the State Department.

An attempt to gain a value by deceiving the mind of others is an act of raising your victims to a position higher than reality.

And fame, for a painter means sales, gains, fortune, riches. And today, as you know, I am celebrated. I am rich.

And step by step, since time began, I see the steady gain of man.

And still, the best of us build, and reach monetary gains. Some of us kill, but still, most of us can change.

And the most difficult of tasks to keep Heights which the soul is competent to gain.

And the truth is that if a writer is successful, you gain readers. It benefits all the writers. It's important for all the writers that as many of us as possible be successful.

A lot of people out there working hard and finally building up to getting a pretty good income. Higher tax rates on them, you know, the income rates going up, the dividend rates are going up, the capital gains rates all going up before health care kicks in.

An enlightened teacher has so much power that when they meditate, a tremendous aura builds up around them. The aura will open up your aura and increase it. You will move into a higher plane of knowledge. You will gain a new view of the world.

An evil gain equals a loss.

A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side.

Any school would gain, if the students began the day with meditation, cleared their heads and got themselves centered.

Anyway, maybe there weren't any solutions. Human society, corpses and rubble. It never learned, it made the same cretinous mistakes over and over, trading short-term gain for long-term pain.

A pastor can teach you on TV, but he can't pastor you on TV. There's so much to gain by belonging to a church.

A person will gain everyone's approval if he mixes the pleasant with the useful.