Top 100 Gain Loss Quotes
#1. All action must be performed with detachment. Regard pain, pleasure; gain, loss; victory, defeat as equal. Battle for battle's sake with your mind completely on what you must do. With this knowledge there is no waster even in the first attempt. There are no impediments.
Meera Uberoi
#2. Perhaps it's a cultural problem: a capitalistic society that encourages people to see negotiations as a zero-sum game - my loss is your gain, my gain is your loss - will encourage an inevitably adversarial exchange.
Anonymous
#3. Since he is of no use anymore, there is no gain if he lives and no loss if he dies.
Pol Pot
#4. Gain or loss. Living and dying. I have told you, Cyrain, they cannot be separated.
George R R Martin
#5. Change, no matter how small, requires loss. And the prospect of loss is far more powerful than potential gain. It's difficult to imagine what a change will do to us. This is why we need stories so desperately.
Shawn Coyne
#6. Why should I stay? Nor seed nor fruit have I,But, sprung at once to beauty's perfect round,Nor loss nor gain nor change in me is found,-A life-complete in death-complete to die.
John B. Tabb
#8. Dov Frohman, the founder of Intel Israel, later said that to create a true culture of innovation, "fear of loss often proves more powerful than the hope of gain.
Dan Senor
#9. The balance of life; every loss is a gain. And every gain is a loss.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#10. If a householder is a genuine devotee, he performs his duties without attachment; he surrenders the fruit of his work to God - his gain or loss, his pleasure or pain. Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (Abridged)
Ramakrishna
#11. As the world grows older there is loss and gain - let us not with modern insolence and blindness imagine it all gain; [...] but neither must we with neo-pagan obscurity of thought imagine it all loss.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#12. Treat gain and loss the same.' Don't be Intimidated. Don't make a Big Deal of anything - just accept things as they come to you.
Benjamin Hoff
#13. Risk deters those who see what they could lose. Those focused on the gain see it as a necessary part of their journey, even if the possibility of loss exists.
Simon Sinek
#14. The fear of loss is greater than the desire for gain.
Zig Ziglar
#15. We would prefer all gain and no loss in life, yet that would gain us nothing more than great loss.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#16. It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.
Augustus Hare
#17. But though it cannot be reasonable not to gain happiness for fear of losing it, yet it must be confessed, that in proportion to the pleasure of possession, will be for some time our sorrow for the loss.
Samuel Johnson
#18. I could lecture on dry oak leaves; I could, but who would hear me? If I were to try it on any large audience, I fear it would be no gain to them, and a positive loss to me. I should have behaved rudely toward my rustling friends.
Henry David Thoreau
#19. Eli was right. The measure of success isn't what you gain. It's what you pay to get it.
Elmer Seward
#20. Or you may be such a thunderingly exalted creature as to be altogether deaf and blind to anything but heavenly sights and sounds. Then the earth for you is only a standing place- whether to be like this is your loss or your gain I won't pretend to say.
Joseph Conrad
#21. The reason I wrote 'I'm Too Young for This!' is to spare young women the suffering of hormonal loss - and it is true suffering. You can't sleep, you gain weight for no reason, you bloat for no reason, your moods are altered, and your sex drive is diminished.
Suzanne Somers
#22. All the stress and misery of life comes from fear of loss. Remember that you can never lose anything without gaining something. To avoid misery, concentrate on what you will gain.
Debasish Mridha
#23. Major fluctuations in weight gain and loss are detrimental to your health and embarrassing to explain to your friends and family.
Linda Sunshine
#24. the road is difficult. - But come; loss now will be gain then! To wait is harder than to run, and its meed is the fuller.
George MacDonald
#25. Explaining one's recent loss as more of a continuous journey rather than a dead end, giving one of the invaluable opportunity to gain strength and learn about oneself, and thereby turning this terribly tragic affair into something hugely positive.
Cecelia Ahern
#26. If you don't dare to suffer the loss, then you shouldn't gain either.
Sajan Kc.
#29. Difference between a lie and a story is that a story utilizes the trappings and appearance of truth for the interest of the listener as well as of the teller. A story has in it neither gain nor loss. But a lie is a device for profit or escape. I
John Steinbeck
#30. You can do this (this thing, where your body will cease to produce hormones and your skin, hair, muscles and bones ... basically every part of you will notice, go into withdrawals, and stage a coup). Be prepared for this mentally, and you'll own this thing.
Lisa Jey Davis
#31. Take the probability of loss times the amount of possible loss from the probability of gain times the amount of possible gain. That is what we're trying to do. It's imperfect, but that's what it's all about.
Warren Buffett
#34. That they have learned to weep at war is no victory. That they know loss is no gain.
Brent Weeks
#35. Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise.
Walker Percy
#36. She
was afraid of getting too close to anyone. To her, closeness represented
a loss rather than a gain.
Mitsuyo Kakuta
#37. A good poem looks life straight in the face, unflinching, sincere, equal to revelation through loss or gain.
David Whyte
#38. You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#40. As we think of power in the 21st century, we want to get away from the idea that power's always zero sum - my gain is your loss and vice versa. Power can also be positive sum, where your gain can be my gain.
Joseph Nye
#41. According to this very simple teaching, becoming immersed in these four pairs of opposites - pleasure and pain, loss and gain, fame and disgrace, and praise and blame - is what keeps us stuck in the pain of samsara.
Pema Chodron
#42. People lose people, we lose things in our life as we're constantly growing and changing. That's what life is is change, and a lot of that is loss. It's what you gain from that loss that makes life.
Thomas Jane
#43. If there is to be no loss whatever of dignity or self-respect in getting and staying on relief, then there can be no gain in dignity or self-respect in makings some sacrifices to keep off.
Henry Hazlitt
#44. In life what you ASPIRE will TRANSPIRE - be it Loss or Gain, Sun or Rain, Joy or Pain. - RVM.
R.v.m.
#45. It takes love to hold on when you want to let go. It takes love to let go when you want to hold on.
Kate McGahan
#46. Where others only see danger and loss,
train your eye to see opportunity and gain.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#47. Only those willing to truly risk everything will gain everything. No person ever rose to greatness without the willingness to lose it all.
Dan Pearce
#48. Learn to be Positive always. In pleasure or Pain, in Sun or Rain, in Loss or Gain, always be POSITIVE! - RVM.
R.v.m.
#49. But because we accept the sanctity of life, the responsibility that comes with freedom and the supreme sacrifice of Christ expressed so well in the hymn: 'When I survey the wondrous cross on which the Prince of Glory died. My richest gain I count but loss and pour contempt on all my pride.'
Margaret Thatcher
#50. How can I no longer bear my weary doom? Alas! what have I gain'd for all I lost?
Maria Gowen Brooks
#51. I wouldn't be who I am today if it wasn't for the people I had met and the people I had lost.
Shannon A. Thompson
#52. Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends? Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you.
Abraham Lincoln
#53. Like and dislike, gain and loss, praise and blame, fame and disgrace: these are the eight mundane concerns which condition our existence.
Dalai Lama XIV
#55. Justice implies knowledge of the right and proper place for a thing or a being to be; of right as against wrong; of the mean and limit; of spiritual gain as against loss; of truth as against falsehood.
Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas
#56. The fruit of timidity is neither gain nor loss.
Idries Shah
#57. I don't want it all to be pretty - it's a combination of loss and gain. Things are born, live and hang in limbo. That's what life's about ...
Cornelia Parker
#58. No wisdom that [my kitten] may gain by experience and reflection hereafter will compensate for the loss of her present hilarity.
William Cowper
#59. Gain is delusion; loss is enlightenment.
Kodo Sawaki
#61. Let us weigh up the gain and the loss involved in calling heads that God exists. Let us assess the two cases: if you win you win everything, if you lose you lose nothing. Do not hesitate then; wager that he does exist.
Blaise Pascal
#62. But in practice, if often comes down to not suffering a loss as big as the huge gain you made a while ago.
Merton Miller
#63. I took the state of Ohio from an $8 billion hole and a 350,000 job loss to a $2 billion surplus and a gain of 350,000 jobs.
John Kasich
#64. All lies fall somewhere into these five categories. These are to: avoid hurting someone; avoid feeling guilt or shame; avoid conflict and stress (minor to major); gain a social advantage; avoid a significant loss.
Caesar Lincoln
#65. Ingenuity and creativity, even for a defeating case of two steps forward and one backward, applied strategically can covert a loss into gain.
Priyavrat Thareja
#66. Our greatest gain is to lose the wealth that is of such brief duration and, by comparison with eternal things, of such little worth; yet we get upset about it and our gain turns to loss.
Teresa Of Avila
#67. If we who follow Christ, with all the facts before us and knowing what we are about, deliberately choose the kingdom of God as our sphere of interest, I see no reason why anyone should object. If we lose by it, the loss is our own; if we gain, we rob no one by so doing.
A.W. Tozer
#68. In the journey of life, we pass pleasures & pain. There will be sunshine and rain; there will be loss and gain. But we must learn to smile again and again.-RVM
R.v.m.
#69. On any given night the stars are endless losses or endless gains. One for the love you experience and one for the love you lose. One for the unfulfilled wish and one for the wish yet to come.
Lawren Leo
#70. Change was as much about loss as gain, about giving something up even as you reached for something new or different. The world was opening up, not closing in.
Nora Roberts
#71. This is what making love must be like, she thinks. At twelve years old, she understands little more than that it will begin with loss - the loss of virginity, the loss of innocence - but that at some point there stands to be a gain.
Sheri Holman
#72. Forever resent this body is not mine,
when do we forget calculating to thrive? (Su Shih)
Sung Yee Poon
#73. All we can do in this world is the thing that seems to us the best. We have no concern with the results, except as a guide for the future, and sometimes, years afterward, we see that what seemed like a bitter loss was, in reality, gain.
Myrtle Reed
#74. Sometimes poverty is the greatest gift you can ever be given. Sometimes loss is the key that leads you to gain.
Suze Orman
#75. At least at times of loss, we are reminded of our priorities, of our many blessings. In times of gain, we can so often lose our way.
Mindy Starns Clark
#77. Everything seemed paused for change, but was she? Change was as much about loss as gain, about giving something up even as you reached for something new or different. And, she admitted, she prized routine, tradition, even repetition.
Nora Roberts
#78. Behind weight gain are the larger hurts and questions that have to be explored, probed, and understood before weight loss and maintenance is a possibility. It's a bigger issue than just calories in, calories out.
Ali Vincent
#79. Gain cannot be made without loss to someone else.
Tom Holland
#80. Sometimes what we see as a loss turns out in the end to be a gain, and sometimes a gain is a loss. I try not to be too swift to pass judgment on any situation, preferring instead to be patient and take the long view because I believe that in the end all things work together for good.
Louis Zamperini
#83. To me, there was no better drummer than Jeff Porcaro. His musicianship and kindness to me will never be forgotten. Our loss is heaven's gain
Richard Marx
#84. The occult powers may be possessed by soul, but if they are not used in the right way it is a loss rather than a gain.
Virchand Gandhi
#85. Fame of self: Which matters more? Self or wealth: Which is more precious? Gain or loss: Which is more painful?
Laozi
#86. Take heart. You're not alone. Every broken heart breathes again. That's life. It goes on. In loss, and in gain.
Fakeer Ishavardas
#87. Those who turn things around by themselves do not rejoice at gain or grieve over loss; the whole world is the range they roam. Those who are themselves used by things hate it when events go against them and love it when they go their way; the slightest thing can create binding entanglements.
Zicheng Hong
#88. For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?
Jesus Christ
#89. There is only the fight to recover what has been lost And found and lost again and again: and now under conditions That seem unpropitious. But perhaps neither gain nor loss. For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business." - T. S. Eliot, from "East Coker
Kristin Hannah
#90. For me, it's not about sacking the quarterback. It's about changing the course of the game. It's causing a crucial fumble at a crucial time. It's making a tackle for a loss when the opposing team needs to gain one or two yards for the first down. I look at myself as a sudden-impact player.
Simeon Rice
#91. Mankind never loses any good thing, physical, intellectual, or moral, till it finds a better, and then the loss is a gain. No steps backward is the rule of human history. What is gained by one man is invested in all men, and is a permanent investment for all time.
Theodore Parker
#92. Any brief military advantage the USA might gain with nuclear weapons would be offset by political and psychological losses and damage to American prestige. The United States might even touch off a worldwide armaments race.
Albert Einstein
#93. I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss
Maya Angelou
#95. If the satisfaction to be derived from each successive increase in wealth is smaller than the satisfaction derived from the previous increase in wealth, then the disutility caused by a loss will always exceed the positive utility provided by a gain of equal size.
Peter L. Bernstein
#96. I can never gain something without losing everything I had before.
Nadia Scrieva
#97. Just to exist, just to be, to take a breath, to feel that, whether its pleasure or pain, loss or gain, just your experience in life is unique to you. No one sees life like you do.
Frederick Lenz
#98. Psychology's loss," said Strike, "is private detection's gain.
Robert Galbraith
#99. We secured peace for our country for one and a half years, as well as an opportunity of preparing our forces for defense if fascist Germany risked attacking our country in defiance of the pact. This was a definite gain to our country and a loss for fascist Germany.
Joseph Stalin
#100. But inside loss there can be gain, too,like the small silver spider Bela had discovered one dewy morning, curled asleep at the center of a rose.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
