Best 748 quotes in «gains quotes» category

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.

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.

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

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

According to success do we gain a reputation for judgement.

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

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?

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

And who in time knows whither we may vent the treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores this gain of our best glories shall be sent, 't unknowing Nations with our stores? What worlds in the yet unformed Occident may come refined with the accents that are ours?

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.

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 person that would secure to himself great deference will, perhaps, gain his point by silence as effectually as by anything he can say.

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

Applied properly, it [logic] can overcome any lack of wisdom, which one only gains through age and experience.

A president has to provide leadership to gain support.

A private Life is to be preferrd; the Honour and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with the Comfort of it.

As a gymnast, you always wear spandex. Being a teenager wearing spandex? It was tough accepting how my body looked, especially if there was any weight gain.

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

Art proper, in other words, emerges when sensation can detach itself and gain an autonomy from its creator and its perceiver when something of the chaos from which it is drawn can breathe and have a life of its own