Quotes About Gain

Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion.

Base World, I trample on thy face, Thy Glory I despise, No gain I find in ought below, For God hath made me wise.

It won't be cold in the parlor," she said. "Or Ã¢â'¬Â¦ well, maybe it will. But everyone knows that ice cream is worth the trouble of being cold. Like all things virtuous, you have to suffer to gain the reward.

But I care myself if I tell fibs; I never tell them unless there's something rather good to be gained.

People are proud only when they have something to lose, and humble when they have something to gain.

The mere sense of his grasp in her own covered the ground of loss just as much as the ground of gain. His presence was like an object brought so close to her face that she couldn't see round its edges

Loss and Gain When I compare What I have lost with what I have gained, What I have missed with what attained, Little room do I find for pride. I am aware How many days have been idly spent; How like an arrow the good intent Has fallen short or been turned aside. But who shall dare To measure loss and gain in this wise? Defeat may be victory in disguise; The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.

A lot of new stepparents fall into the trap of letting children disobey household expectations in order to gain favor with them.

You have to lose something to gain anything.

Experience comes from failure and success comes from experience. Today's pain will bring tomorrow's gain.

It is better to lose and gain the love, than win and lose the love.

We are told that "There is no great loss without some small gain.' Even so I think that there is no great gain without a little loss. Laura Ingalls Wilder, So We Moved the Spring

One man's mistake is another man's opportunity.

It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.

It's a very smart and heartfelt movie and that's why, I think, we're all drawn to it. We really showed up for this with this collective idea that it was really ambitious, but we felt we all really had something to gain from it.

I still feel there are much smarter self-promoters out there than me. I am very methodical about my messaging, and I know how to gain attention very quickly.

When people ask why I go on my travels I usually reply that I know what I am escaping from but not what I am looking for. If they tell me that there may be just as little soundness among foreigners and that their morals may be no better than ours, I reply: first that would not be easy: Our wickedness has assumed many faces. Secondly, there is always gain in changing a bad condition for an uncertain one, and that the ills of others do not need to sting us as our own do.

L'homme d'entendement n'a rien a perdre

Some people seek meaning in life through personal gain, through personal relationships, or through personal experiences. However, it seems to me that being blessed with the intellect to divine the ultimate secrets of nature gives meaning enough to life.

A Confucian or Jewish love of learning would gain minorities far more than any affirmative action laws we might pass.

Hope has often caused the love of gain to ruin men.

Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests, and an exchange of good offices; it is a species of commerce out of which self-love always expects to gain something.

A speculator buys stocks hoping for a short-term gain over the next days or weeks. An investor buys stocks likely to produce a dependable future stream of cash returns and capital gains when measured over years or decades.

Every age has its peculiar folly; some scheme, project, or phantasy into which it plunges, spurred on either by the love of gain, the necessity of excitement, or the mere force of imitation. Failing in these, it has some madness, to which it is goaded by political or religious causes, or both combined.