Quotes About Gain

Though I did manage to gain a bit of intelligence when I was in Stu's office." "Ah." I knew that she had. You could see that in her eyes, too. A kind of ferocious twinkle.

When the snipe and the mussel struggle, the fisherman gets the benefit. Ancient Chinese saying

There was in the mountains, and perhaps in the world at large, a theory of compensation that held that for everything given something else was immediately and visibly lost. Well, you've got the smarts even if your cousin did get the looks. Compliments, seductive as flowers, thorny with their opposites: Yes, you may be smart but you sure are ugly; You may look nice but you didn't get a brain. Compensation; balance in the universe.

Sax had always been so uninterested in [power and gain] that it was hard for him to understand why anyone else would be. What was personal gain but the freedom to do what you wanted to do? And what was power but the freedom to do what you wanted to do? And once you had that freedom, any more wealth or power actually began to restrict one's options, and reduce one's freedom. One became a servant of one's wealth or power, constrained to spend all one's time protecting it.

I'm not thinking, just now,' answered the little boy. 'It tires me to think, and I never seem to gain anything by it. When we see the people who live here we will know what they are like, and no 'mount of thinking will make them any different.

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, but lose his soul?" -Mark 8:36

I guessed life was like that. You gained and you lost, and if you saved anything from the ruins, even if only a shred of self-respect, it was enough to take you through the next bit.

For as many people as I quote-unquote lost respect from, I gained respect from a lot more. I know that's a fact.

It is a unique challenge for a woman to demonstrate that they can lead, that they will be strong, that they can handle crisis, and that they gain respect.

the fear of loss is greater than the desire for gain.

Why is it that for everything you gain in life, something is always lost?

Our world was created with a sense of order. For every loss, there is a gain. Sometimes we are so blinded by the loss that we don't see the gain, don't recognize the gift.

I believe that our world was created with a sense of order. For every loss, there's a gain. Sometimes we're so blinded by the loss that we don't see the gain, don't recognize the gift.

The ego wants to acquire things out of insecurity, out of a sense of lack. Remind yourself that everything comes and goes except the soul. It's from the soul that a person gains a sense of inner fulfillment. The soul lacks nothing and therefore has no anxiety about the outside world: gain is not a need, loss is not a threat.

What does it profit a man if he gain the whole world but lose his soul?

Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.

To test a perfect theory with imperfect instruments did not impress the Greek philosophers as a valid way to gain knowledge.

I don't think you have to wait for knowledge and balance to come before you seek power because you need a certain amount of power to gain knowledge and balance.

But there is one thing most companies struggle to standardize, and ironically, it's the most important part of our efforts to gain and sustain results. It is leadership.

There are two sides to increasing energy. One is avoiding loss. The other is learning how to gain energy.

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

Expectation is contentment - Gain satiety.

The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no motherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain.