We shall have our manhood. We shall have it or the earth will be leveled by our attempts to gain it.

We gain no easier advantage than by relentlessly pursuing our goal while others pursue an advantage.

When your goal is to gain experience, perspective, and knowledge, failure is no longer a possibility

Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life.

If I make a good product and deliver value to users and to the world, the financial gains will come.

Index funds do not trade from security to security and, thus, they tend to avoid capital gains taxes.

Like me or don't like me, I'm not going to adjust my behavior, just to gain a few more positive fans.

Life isn't a straightforward climb up the ladder. It can take a few slips to really gain perspective.

At the end of 2000, most investors were optimistic that a return to quick gains could not be far off.

Life works upon a compensating balance, and the happiness we gain in one direction we lose in another.

There's no bad consequence to loving fully, comma with all your heart. You always gain by giving love.

We want to keep a preferred rate for capital gains - we think it is important to encourage investment.

Anybody can achieve gains in quality by slowing down production. That is not what we are talking about.

That the chance of gain is naturally over-valued, we may learn from the universal success of lotteries.

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

The workers have nothing to gain from this war, but they stand to lose everything that is dear to them.

Happy the man who gains sagacity in youth, but thrice happy he who retains the fervour of youth in age.

The sale of souls to gain the whole world is completely voluntary and almost unanimous...but not quite.

In the midst of conflict, there is absolutely nothing that produces gains as dramatically as listening.

It is by seeing, looking and choosing to not turn away that we gain God's heart, that we grow in faith.

I don't think countries engage with each other looking at immediate gains. It's building a partnership.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Women are, in general, less shallow visually. If their man gains 10, 20 pounds, they don't care as much.

The troops of other states have their reputation to gain, the sons of the Alamo have theirs to maintain.

For every apparent gain, in short, we now observe a balancing danger. This is the world we have created.

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

When laissez-faire creates instability, the move to a freer market can be something less than pure gain.

The Japanese put houses in among the trees and allowed nature to gain the ascendancy in any composition.

I worry that we risk losing the hard-won gains that have made America a safer and more prosperous place.

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

The Christian has greatly the advantage of the unbeliever, having everything to gain and nothing to lose.

When we see the bankruptcy, slavery, and vanity of everything else, we can finally say, ‘To die is gain.’

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

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

The gain of lying is nothing else but not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we say the truth.

If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

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

The gains from technology must be channeled to a broader base of the population than has benefited so far.

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

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

Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.

The victory one would gain after a whole life of work and effort is better than one that is gained sooner.

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

My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.

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

Sometimes you must lose everything to gain it again, and the regaining is the sweeter for the pain of loss.

It is now common knowledge that the average American gains 7 pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day.

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

I already accepted that I relate to nothing. The more I gain, the more lonely it is I know I'm like a ghost.

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

Share This Page