Quotes About Gain

To the victors belong the spoils.

The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source.

Spite, financial gain, thrills, emotional satisfaction. Murder always offered a reward. Why else would it remain so popular?

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

A man who loses his money gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.

Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain

Through zeal, knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow.

That which the ignorant do with desire for results and gain, let the wise do without any attachment and without any desire for results and gain.

I've always thought of music as profound spirituality because you can use that music and that spirituality for personal gain or for the good of the world, the good of humanity, and for the good of your people.

I had risked everything and gained everything, and here I was of the world and in it.

The modest man has everything to gain, and the arrogant man everything to lose; for modesty has always to deal with generosity, and arrogance with envy.

For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.

No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.

It's when a society plunders its ability to look over the horizon and into the future in order to get short-term gain—sometimes illusory gain—that it begins a long slide nearly impossible to reverse.

Scholars of economic history have worked up numbers suggesting that Britain spent more on maintaining its empire than it gained from exploiting it.

It is truly natural and ordinary thing to desire gain; and when those who can succeed attempt it, they will always be praised and not blamed. But if they cannot succeed, yet try anyway, they are guilty of error and are blameworthy.

Cornelius Tacitus when he says, that "men are readier to pay back injuries than benefits, since to requite a benefit is felt to be a burthen, to return an injury a gain.

Movies are a commercial medium. We don't make movies to impress our friends and critics. It's an expensive medium. We have to gain money from it.

Change goes on all the time. You lose something and you gain something else." - Cery

A tragic time indeed for clearsighted men and lovers of justice; the greedy ones were rubbing their hands and the butchers were sharpening their knives all over the world. Every gain that had been made in the World War had been thrown away, and every principle for which Woodrow Wilson had fought had been mocked.

One of the ancient and modern critiques of democracy is that radicals destroy norms for short-term political gain, norms that they themselves often later seek as refuge.

the pain of losing a dollar is far more powerful than the pleasure of winning a dollar.

The mandate you go with is intimidating and also is a source of respect that you gain, because you have come with this mandate from the United Nations.

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