Quotes About Gain

I take it, no fool ever made a bargain for his soul with the devil; the fool is too much of a fool, or the devil too much of a devil—I don't know which. Or you may be such a thunderingly exalted creature as to be altogether deaf and blind to anything but heavenly sights and sounds. Then the earth for you is only a standing place—and whether to be like this is your loss or your gain I won't pretend to say. But most of us are neither one nor the other.

Then the earth for you is only a standing place—and whether to be like this is your loss or your gain I won't pretend to say.

Chesterton believed in a matriarchy where the woman was at the center of the family and the family was at the center of society and, in rebelling against this matriarchy, women, he was convinced, would lose far more than they could possibly gain.

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

In the present day, when popular literature is running into the low levels of life, and luxuriating on the vices and follies of mankind; and when the universal pursuit of gain is trampling down the early growth of poetic feeling, and wearing out the verdure of the soul, I question whether it would not be of service for the reader occasionally to turn to these records of prouder times and loftier modes of thinking; and to steep himself to the very lips in old Spanish romance.

She's suing him for alimony. She would actually like to settle, but he prefers to go to court. That's not surprising—she can only gain, so she's risk averse. He, on the other hand, faces options that are all bad, so he'd rather take the risk.

There will always be a way getting involved to make profit at everybodys expense.

Go after what is beneficial for you there and then, not what is good.

Nonsense, my good man! What we lose in vigor, we only gain in wisdom.

Às vezes você tem que perder pra ganhar.

Every Pleasure ends in Pain... Loss follows every Gain. The ONLY way to Eternal Bliss is Self-Realization.

I feel like more than 80% of the world wouldn't get up in front of 40 million people and dance on national television, and if I have the confidence to do that then that's a step ahead in my life for me in terms of personal goals. I will gain a lot of confidence on all aspects right there.

At the first rumors of war, timid investors in various government stock, being panic-stricken, sell out, to their loss and the gamblers' gain.

A lot of people have a lot to gain from peddling scare stories about cyber 'warfare.'

The way to find the cause of an event is to understand who had the most to gain from it.

The process of identifying a self inevitably involves loss as well as gain. We discover our boundaries, and those boundaries by definition separate us from our fellows. As we clarify our perceptions, we lose our misconceptions. As we eliminate ambiguity, we lose illusion as well. We arrive at clarity, and clarity creates change.

The scholar gains every day; the man of Tao loses every day.

Yet still there whispers the small voice within, Heard through Gain's silence, and o'er Glory's din; Whatever creed be taught or land be trod, Man's conscience is the oracle of God.

When trying a case [the famous judge] L. Cassius never failed to inquire "Who gained by it?" Man's character is such that no one undertakes crimes without hope of gain.

The successful man or woman always looks for the advantage or benefit in every situation and lo and behold, they always find it.

The poet reminds men of their uniqueness and it is not necessary to possess the ultimate definition of this uniqueness. Even to speculate is a gain.

Of course we're doing it for the money. We've always done it for the money.

I do not love the money. What I do love is the getting of it ... What other interest can you suggest to me? I do not read. I do not take part in politics. What can I do?

Money will always turn up when there is a potential for profit.