Quotes About Gain

The separating years approached them both, like a station down the line, all gain for her and all loss for him.

Let us weigh the gain and loss,"' he quoted, '"in wagering that God is, let us estimate these two chances. If you gain, you gain all; if you lose you lose nothing.

challenge and difficulty mattered less to the great majority than accomplishment and gain

To gain what is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience.

If you loose your time, you cannot get mony nor gaine.

Multa ferunt anni venientes commoda secum, Multa recedentes adimiunt. (The years, as they come, bring many agreeable things with them; as they go, they take many away.)

Great time is for those who made effort. Better time is for those who made gain.

each person 'intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention'. Yet

Money permits no deals except those to mutual benefit by the unforced judgment of the traders. Money demands of you the recognition that men must work for their own benefit, not for their own injury, for their gain, not their loss—the recognition that they are not beasts of burden, born to carry the weight of your misery—that you must offer them values, not wounds—that the common bond among men is not the exchange of suffering, but the exchange of goods.

He knew that the conference was a trap; he knew also that he was walking into it with nothing for any trappers to gain.

Value' is that which one acts to gain and keep, 'virtue' is the action by which one gains and keeps it.

A sacrifice, it is necessary to remember, means the surrender of a higher value in favor of a lower value or of a nonvalue. If one gives up that which one does not value in order to obtain that which one does value—or if one gives up a lesser value in order to obtain a greater one—this is not a sacrifice, but a gain.

Later, you add to that definition: making money. How much money can you make?

In the nature of man we find three principal causes of quarrel: gain (predatory raids), safety (preemptive raids), and reputation (retaliatory raids).

The psychological literature confirms that people dread losses more than they look forward to gains, that they dwell on setbacks more than they savor good fortune, and that they are more stung by criticism than they are heartened by praise.

For the love of gain would reconcile the weaker to the dominion of the stronger, and the possession of capital enabled the more powerful to reduce the smaller cities to subjection.

there is no gain without risk, perhaps no risk without love.

Every age has its peculiar folly: Some scheme, project, or fantasy into which it plunges, spurred on by the love of gain, the necessity of excitement, or the force of imitation.

Well something's lost but something's gained in living every day.

For what shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?

For what shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and forfeit his soul? (Mark 8:36)

To meet the demands and marketability of lowering fat in foods while maintaining flavorful options, food manufacturers got busy adding increasing levels of sugars in everything from spaghetti sauce to salad dressings. Labels and packages touted health claims because of low-fat ingredients, while completely forgetting to mention that the fat, that actually wasn't bad, had been replaced by an overload of Sugar Calories that cause weight gain.