Quotes About Gain

Fidelity is a bourgeois virtue and it exists only to exploit people and to obtain an economic gain

Sacrifice is the secret — you have to sacrifice things for art and it's the same with religion; and then the sacrifice turns out to be a gain." Then I got confused and I couldn't hold on to what I meant — until Miss Blossom remarked: "Nonsense, duckie — it's perfectly simple. You lose yourself in something beyond yourself and it's a lovely rest.

Right, but you know, what would any of us lose by losing our possessions. Maybe we would gain something, like relationships, like the beauty of good friends, intimacy, you know what I mean, man? Like we wouldn't be losing anything if we lost our stuff, we'd be gaining everything.

in certain situations, people are two to three times more motivated to make a change to avoid a loss than they are to achieve a gain.2

Comprendí, mi cuerpo comprendió, que nunca perderé todo y que si gano, no ganaré nunca sin perder".

If we gain something, it was there from    the beginning. If we lose anything, it is hidden nearby.

Se antoja pensar que el hombre decidió voluntariamente perder el "Paraíso" de la Unidad inconsciente con la Lattice para ganar el Paraíso de la Unidad Consciente con la misma Lattice. En esta pérdida y ganancia Dios actuó como cómplice por su "deseo" de ser acompañado por alguien de su misma osadía y altura.  El éxito en esta "aventura magistral" está todavía por verse.

sit back and watch the money roll in.

Now all these virtues mean one thing, and that is bravery. A Sioux boy was taught to be brave always. It was not sufficient to be brave enough to go to war. He must be brave enough to make personal sacrifices and to think little of personal gain. To be brave was the supreme test of a Sioux boy, and this bravery might receive a greater test in times of peace than in times of war.

A vida não tece apenas uma teia de perdas, mas nos proporciona uma sucessão de ganhos.

painful the grounds for resentment, the easier it is for a Fascist leader to gain followers by dangling the prospect of renewal or by vowing to take back what has been stolen.

Tremble ye Nations who secure before,   115 Laught at those Arms that' gainst our selves we bore;

movement to reform the practice of solitary confinement was struggling to gain momentum. Said movement had not made it to Florida.

Nobody blamed the credulity and avarice of the people—the degrading lust of gain…or the infatuation which had made the multitude run their heads with such frantic eagerness into the net held out for them by scheming projectors.

Every experience is a lesson. Every loss is a gain.

If you innovate broadly, focus on the customer experience, and deliver everyday a great product, you will gain share.

For ridding oneself of faith is like boiling seawater to retrieve the salt--something is gained but something is lost.

Breaking up with someone is painful. However, when you lose someone who treats you badly, disrespects you and shows you no affection... It's a gain, not a loss.

No pressure, no diamonds. No pressure, no pearl. No pain, no gain. No cocoon, no beautiful butterfly. It's in the uncertain and dark and unclear and broken times that we learn who we really are and what we are capable of.

So little is our loss, So little is thy gain.

The sale of souls to gain the whole world is completely voluntary and almost unanimous...but not quite.

I did not want to surrender fierceness for a small gain in yardage. My wife married a man; I saw no reason why she should inherit a baby.

I completely lost everything, but I gained everything because I lost the fear.

This is the truth as I see it, my dear, Out in the wind and the rain: They who have nothing have little to fear, Nothing to lose or to gain.