Gains Quotes

Women are the most charitable creatures, and the most troublesome. He who shuns women passes up the trouble, but also the benefits. He who puts up with them gains the benefits, but also the trouble. As the saying goes, there's no honey without bees.

There, where I have passed, the grass will never grow gain.

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

It's no virtue to gain the whole world. Just gain the heart of one person.

For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain

Islam is under obligation to gain power over all nations.

Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories.

Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

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

Sometimes out of your biggest misery, comes your greatest gain.

The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution

I make myself a leper with the lepers to gain all to Jesus Christ.

Every old goalkeeper loses a step at some point, but you can gain that back through experience.

Since he is of no use anymore, there is no gain if he lives and no loss if he dies.

It takes great effort to follow the rules of a pull system ... thus a half-hearted introduction of a pull system brings a hundred harms and not a single gain.

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.

Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience. You need experience to gain wisdom.

It cannot be good to tax the Americans... You will lose more than you gain.

I have nothing to lose, but something to gain.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

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

Never worry about what you're going lose but what you're going gain

Americans care about their past, but for short term gain they ignore it and tear down everything that matters.

The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering gains made by the computer hardware industry.

In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.

Winners see the gain; losers see the pain.

As Members of Congress, we should not be using public office for private gain.

It takes hundreds of good golf shots to gain confidence, but only one bad one to lose it.

I live before the audience of One-before others I have nothing to gain, nothing to lose, nothing to prove.

When you come from desperate poverty, and that's exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated. I'm not sure who gains from chaos, but I know it's not the poor folks in the council flats. The politics of vindictiveness is never, ever anything like a solution.

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

No gain in keeping, no loss in weeding out.

To gain freedom is to gain simplicity.

Give him threepence, since he must make a gain out of what he learns.

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.

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

We kill the women. We kill the babies. We kill the blind. We kill the cripples. We kill them all.... When you get through killing them all, go to the goddamn graveyard and kill them a-goddamn-gain because they didn't die hard enough.

It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain

The first sign of tyranny is government's complicity in privatizing the commons for private gain.

Storm is prerequisite to mental gain

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.

None of us come to this earth to gain our worth; we brought it with us.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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