Best 748 quotes in «gains quotes» category

Nobody prefers to earn income any more, because that's taxable. Rich people prefer to make capital gains.

No brain, no gain. Stay in school.

No gains without pains.

No gain in keeping, no loss in weeding out.

No, in country money, the country scale of gain, The requisite lift of spirit has never been found.

No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.

No man [or woman] is free until he learns to do his own thinking and gains the courage to act on his own personal initiative.

No one can cross the boundary into another -- for the simple reason that no one can gain access to himself

No one gains from fair employment law and legislation if there is no employment to be had.

No one really knows what mattresses are meant to gain from their lives either. They are large, friendly, pocket-sprung creatures that live quiet private lives in the marshes of Sqornshellous Zeta. Many of them get caught, slaughtered, dried out, shipped out and slept on. None of them seems to mind this and all of them are called Zem.

No one is so eager to gain new experiences as he who doesn't know how to make use of the old ones.

No one making less than $250,000 under Barack Obama's plan will see one single penny of their tax raised, whether it's their capital gains tax, their income tax, investment tax, any tax.

Nothing is difficult, when gain and honour unite their influence.

Nothing is so difficult to believe that oratory cannot make it acceptable, nothing so rough and uncultured as not to gain brilliance and refinement from eloquence.

Not until we dare to regard ourselves as a nation, not until we respect ourselves, can we gain the esteem of others, or rather only then will it come of its own accord

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.

Once IBM gains control of a market sector, they almost always stop innovation. They prevent innovation from happening.

Now you see. We are all fugitives. We have always been fugitives from the void. Whatever comfort, whatever power we gain from outside of ourselves diminishes us -- because comfort and power, unless they are won from the void inside of us, are illusions that make us forget the emptyness that carries us. When we forget that, we believe we deserve comfort and power and so are capable of any evil. We deserve nothing but what we make of ourselves. We deserve nothing else. And when we understand that, then nothing is enough.

Oil is once again robbing the industry of a return to profitability. Cost reductions and efficiency gains have never been more critical.

Oh, but when love is reached through suffering, it has a power it can never gain through innocence.

Once energy problems gain traction, there will be a large new class of economic losers, and consequently a lot of social turbulence.

Once her love had been publicized, it would gain weight, become a burden.

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.

One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.

One gains by losing self for others and not by hoarding for oneself.

One basic myth is that rich people get wealthy by earning income. But that's not how most get rich. Most of the gains of the rich people since 1945 have been "capital gains".

One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.

Only through repentance do we gain access to the atoning grace of Jesus Christ.

Only by himself, with one acre and a house, will a dunce be a dunce. Once he manages to gain power, he'll turn into a scoundrel.

Our enemy is Al Qaeda and its allies, people who have publicly said they wish to attack the United States again, people who have publicly called on nuclear physicists and engineers to help them gain access to nuclear weapons, which, as the whole world knows, Pakistan has.

On the one hand, loss implies gain; on the other hand, gain implies loss.

Our goal is peace. We can gain that peace by strengthening our alliances, by speaking candidly about the dangers before us, by assuring potential adversaries of our seriousness, by actively pursuing every chance of honest and fruitful negotiation.

Our life and our death is with our neighbor. If we gain our brother, we have gained God, but if we scandalize our brother, we have sinned against Christ.

Our purpose in this life is to gain the view of ourselves; otherwise, we are total slaves to others who psychically drain us, abuse us.

Our own theory is that sin was ordained only in view of redemption, and that accordingly redemption shows forth as the gain bound up with sin; in comparison with which there can be no question whatever of mischief due to sin, for the merely gradual and imperfect unfolding of the power of the God-consciousness is one of the necessary conditions of the human stage of existence.

People in both fields operate with beliefs and biases. To the extent you can eliminate both and replace them with data, you gain a clear advantage.

Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

People gain so much hope when they know they are not experiencing something alone.

People have no human rights, only the rights that they can gain on the labour market. Above all, wealth and power have to be protected.

Our world was created with a sense of order. For every loss, there is a gain. Sometimes we are so blinded by the loss that we don't see the gain, don't recognize the gift.

Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few.

People lose people, we lose things in our life as we're constantly growing and changing. That's what life is is change, and a lot of that is loss. It's what you gain from that loss that makes life.

Personally, I feel that it is the most contemptible thing for a politician to seek personal gains from politics.

Persecutions are inevitable as a Christian. We are not greater than our Master, Jesus Christ, in whose Holy Spirit we gain strength to endure.

Philanthropy is the duty of how we should behave when things go wrong for people, and how we can help to make things better for everyone - voluntarily, without being required to do it by the government, and for others, without private gain for ourselves.

Power feminism is just another scam in which women get to play patriarchs and pretend that the power we seek and gain liberates us.

Possession hinders enjoyment. It merely gives you the right to keep things for or from others, and thus you gain more enemies than friends.

Progress is always an exchange. We gain something, we give something else up. I'm interested in looking at some of what we are losing.

Prefer punishment to disgraceful gain; for the one is painful but once, but the other for one's whole life.

Progress not perfection... you can't be perfect everything... but you can gain progress on a daily basis.