Quotes About Gain

Personal power is really the issue. It is only through tremendous attention to detail that you will be able to gain personal power and searing self-honesty.

Avoid dishonest gain: no price can recompence the pangs of vice.

Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain.

Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.

Give me another Chance Then, You will Get Less than I Gain...

The cause of freedom is identified with the destinies of humanity, and in whatever part of the world it gains ground by and by, it will be a common gain to all those who desire it.

Come with me into the world and reclaim your independence. You stand to gain so much, and riches are the least of it.

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

But now old friends are acting strange They shake their heads, they say I've changed Well something's lost, but something's gained In living every day

Some lose yet gain, others gain and yet lose

For one man to gain another must lose

What is first seen as a loss is now seen as a gain. For he finds solitude, not in far off, quite places; he creates it out of himself, spreads it around him, wherever he may be, because he loves it and slowly he ripens in this tranquility. For the inner process is beginning to unfold, stillness is extraordinarily important.

I have learned that neither kindness nor cruelty by themselves; independent of each other, creates any effect beyond themselves; and I have learned that the two combined, together, at the same time, are the teaching emotion. And what is gained is loss.

Yes, it is a truth that for a good man, honored, beloved, useful, with all around him that God ever gives to His children here; nay, with all that God could give him of earth, it would be " gain " to die. Heaven is a better, a happier, a more desirable world than this is or can be.

Not until we dare to regard ourselves as a nation, not until we respect ourselves, can we gain the esteem of others, or rather only then will it come of its own accord.

Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, Like other farmers, flourish and complain.

In Judaism or Christianity and so forth, you invent rules that don't exist anywhere except in your imagination. You spend your life trying to gain points and to avoid all kinds of things that detract from your points. And if by the time you die you gather enough points, then you pass on to the next level, in Heaven.

6Now godliness with econtentment is great gain. 7For we brought nothing into this world, 4and it is fcertain we can carry nothing out. 8And having food and clothing, with these we shall be gcontent.

The fact that a loss hurts more than an equivalent gain gives pleasure is called loss aversion. It has become the single most powerful tool in the behavioral economist's arsenal.

People will be risk-averse for gains, but risk-seeking for losses

One of the vilest secrets of the MacHeaths was that they would purposely maim young pups, hoping to gain a place in the Watch of the Sacred Volcanoes.

We have never made a gain, in civil rights, without pressure

Preaching doom and gloom has been beneficial to the political class. They use it to gain more power and control.

Power is all. Another falsification; I do not tell how I gain or maintain it. I only record the ginger stroll through the vaguely fetid garden of its rewards.