Quotes About Gain

The starting point of social movements stems from deep pain and intolerance towards loss already incurred and hence any gain including just voicing the injustice empowers the movement and everybody else around them.

It's not right to say that our loss in Vietnam turned out to be a gain. But lessons were learned. And they were the right lessons.

Psychoanalysis is an attempt to examine a person's self-justifications. Hence it can be undertaken only with the patient's cooperation and can succeed only when the patient has something to gain by abandoning or modifying his system of self-justification.

Never entangle your life with a stranger when the only thing to gain is the last word.

She stood and pointed at the president with her pen. "How many men do you expect to lose?" The president leaned into the podium. "Our military is in such incredible fighting condition that I actually expect to gain men…. Next question!…

By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.

The objective is to enlarge the scope of your advantage which can only happen at someone else's expense.

In its true exchange, one cannot gain a great deal unless one is willing to dare losing all.

America is a grand example of the Biblical challenge: what does it profit an empire to gain the whole world and lose its soul?

What was she hoping to gain from his death? That it would numb the pain of his betrayal, or heal her injured pride? Her red sister didn't know much about love.

Uchiyama R?shi used to say again and again that loss is enlightenment, gain is illusion.

What is the significance of this? It was simply a demonstration of Parental Mind. The Tathagata did not do this in expectation of some reward or fame. He did it unconditionally, without thought of profit or gain.

44th Verse Which means more to you, you or your renown? Which brings more to you, you or what you own? I say what you gain is more trouble that what you lose. Love is the fruit of sacrifice. Wealth is the fruit of generosity. A contented man is never disappointed. He who knows when to stop is preserved from peril, only thus can you endure long.

He said he gave up what he couldn't keep to gain what he couldn't lose.

No wire with teeth reached out to trap him for enemy guns. The soldiers who marched with him had seen too much war to make a lot of unnecessary noise, but they grinned and checked their rifles. They knew what they were gaining here.

This was loss that ruined your life leading straight to gain that saved it. It wasn't silver lining; it was a whole silver sky.

A hobby is, of course, an abomination, as are all consuming interests and passions that do not lead directly to large, personal gain.

His departure gave Catherine the first experimental conviction that a loss may be sometimes a gain.

And if reading could banish the idea for even half an hour, it was something gained.

The first experimental convinction that a loss may be sometimes a gain.

Still, however, she had the sensation of there being something more than immediately appeared, in Mr Elliot's wishing, after an interval of so many years, to be well received by them. In a worldly view, he had nothing to gain by being on terms with Sir Walter; nothing to risk by a state of variance.

The law of thermodynamics, you know, the idea that nothing is lost, that a loss in one area equals a gain in the other, was actually not invented by scientists but by the people who write redemptive fiction. [...] Actually, in real life, we lose things all the time and they're gone. Lost, period.

I thought you were trying to lose weight." "Yeah, but I don't want to waste away to nothing. And anyway, everyone knows you don't gain weight on Sunday. Sunday's a free day.

Physiology has, at last, gained control over the nerves which stimulate the gastric glands and the pancreas.