Quotes About Gain

We would prefer all gain and no loss in life, yet that would gain us nothing more than great loss.

annihilation. "Money flows toward short term gain," writes the geologist David Archer, "and toward the over-exploitation of unregulated common resources. These tendencies are like the invisible hand of fate, guiding the hero in a Greek tragedy toward his inevitable doom." This is indeed the essence of humanity's present derangement.

What Daniel taketh away, Daniel giveth.

ACQUEST  (ACQU'EST)   n.s.[acquest, Fr. from acquerir, written by some acquist, with a view to the word acquire, or acquisita.]Attachment, acquisition; the thing gained. New acquests are more burden than strength.Bac.Hen. VII. Mud, reposed near the

Te ocupas de la botánica? ¿De la óptica? ¿Qué haces? ¿No es una ganancia más hermosa conmover a un corazón tierno? Ah. los corazones tiernos. Un charlatán es capaz de conmoverlos. Que sea mi única dicha conmoverte a ti, naturaleza.

people judge people as less moral when they act altruistically and gain in the process than when they gain from clearly nonaltruistic behavior.

As it is my eager expectation and hope that I will not be at all ashamed, but that with full courage now as always Christ will be honored in my body, whether by life or by death. For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. (Phil. 1:20–21)

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

There is always something to lose. But maybe more to gain.

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

Why is it that for everything you gain in life, something is always lost?

Boldness is the rule, for everything is to be gained, and nothing lost.

Every defeat makes me stronger to stand up with the new willpower. It is the visionary gain, and that leads to real success.

One invents; whereas, another earns and benefits from that, not the inventor.

If you have any interests you can gain a wider audience for those interests while the goldfish bowl is yours!

paula's puny stomach, which will soon be fat and swollen, so that for the same money one could suddenly have many more pounds of paula, is up for auction. but nobody wants it. with a pig that would be an enormous gain in value. with paula it's a sign, mat she was easy to get, too easy, and now it's all the harder to dispose of her.

The Buddha, for his part, talks about the 'eight worldly conditions' that 'keep the world turning around', and around which the world turns. 'What eight? Gain and loss, fame and disrepute, praise and blame, pleasure and pain'.

A self-centered person lauds publicly the efforts of others only to gain the praise for oneself from the duffer people.

Two types of people usually enjoy a lot and remain mostly happy. One who has no brain and other who inflicts pain into the life of others for own materialistic gain.

Gollum was so interesting to me because he's morally ambivalent, and I love the notion of a quest that is to lose something. Not to gain, but to get rid of something.

If I have nothing to sacrifice, I have nothing to gain.

He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.

I've been in a few films that have been adapted and, as an actor, the amount of resources and things you can gain just from reading the story, as well as the script, are so massive that it's something you just can't put down.

In a globalised world, so many of us move around so much. You lose things, but you also gain things - or hope to gain them.