Quotes About Gains

#1. The process of growing up is to be valued for what we gain, not for what we lose. - Author: C.S. Lewis

#2. For every apparent gain, in short, we now observe a balancing danger. This is the world we have created. - Author: Mark Kingwell

#3. Maybe we don't put our young people in situations often enough where they're allowed to fail. When you fail you gain experience, and with enough experience, you don't fail as often. - Author: Colin Powell

#4. Use what you have in your gym. Try to do my training program, you will lose your fat and gain muscles at the same time. - Author: Serge Nubret

#5. You gain wisdom and you don't make the same mistakes. - Author: Rick Heinrichs

#6. Give him threepence, since he must make a gain out of what he learns. - Author: Euclid

#7. I'm not a free trader, but I am a free trader, but I'm also a fare trader and a smart trader. I want to make sure that the United States gains something. So I think you would probably agree. - Author: Donald Trump

#8. The business man who gains success at the expense of the poor and miserable gains nil respect from his peers. - Author: Clarence H. Burns

#9. You gotta look for the good in the bad, the happy in your sad, the gain in your pain, and what makes you grateful not hateful. - Author: Karen Salmansohn

#10. The first time you do anything, people always take a minute to try to figure it out, but once you witness it in person, the word starts to spread and it gains momentum year after year. - Author: Darren Criss

#11. The fact of the matter is, this is a very dynamic economy we have, and in this dynamic economy, you have a lot of job gains, but you also have job loss. - Author: Alexis Herman

#12. Any fear is an illusion. You think something is standing in your way, but nothing is really there. What is there is an opportunity to do your best and gain some success. - Author: Michael Jordan

#13. We are more sensitive to losses than to gains; the pleasure of winning is less than the pain of losing. - Author: John A. Daly

#14. The potential gains from improved stabilization policies are on the order of hundredths of a percent of consumption, perhaps two orders of magnitude smaller than the potential benefits of available supply-side fiscal reforms. - Author: Robert Lucas Jr.

#15. Let me persuade you then
oh, do let me persuade you," said the child, "to think no more of gains or losses, and to try no fortune but the fortune we pursue together. - Author: Charles Dickens

#16. You choose how to feel and act every moment of every day. The moment you accept this responsibility completely, you gain total control over your life. - Author: Marshall Sylver

#17. Since he is of no use anymore, there is no gain if he lives and no loss if he dies. - Author: Pol Pot

#18. Greed robs you of more value than the price of what you've gained. - Author: A.J. Darkholme

#19. A private Life is to be preferrd; the Honour and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with the Comfort of it. - Author: William Penn

#20. One of the key elements of human behavior is, humans have a greater fear of loss than enjoyment of success. All the academic studies will show you that the fear of loss of capital is far greater than the enjoyment of gains. - Author: Laurence D. Fink

#21. There are two sides to increasing energy. One is avoiding loss. The other is learning how to gain energy. - Author: Frederick Lenz

#22. Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him. - Author: Benjamin Franklin

#23. No Child Left Behind's fourth-grade gains aren't learning gains, they're testing gains. That's why they don't last. The law is a distraction from things that really count. - Author: Jonathan Kozol

#24. In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies. - Author: Boris Pasternak

#25. America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference. - Author: Sylvia Earle

#26. Virginity, like all monstrosities, possesses special riches and its own absorbing grandeur. Among the chaste, life forces are economized and thus gain in resistance and durability. - Author: Honore De Balzac

#27. Everything starts to break down, however, when a species gains language. What we talk about isn't what we experience - we speak chiefly of interesting things, and those tend to be things that are uncommon. - Author: Brian Christian

#28. Good teaching gains its authority from having consistent and repeated support from multiple scriptural sources, and it builds a firm base for our unity and our confidence in Christ. - Author: Reid A. Ashbaucher

#29. He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's mishap. - Author: Publilius Syrus

#30. With each new experience of letting God be in control, we gain courage and reinforcement for daring to do it again and again. - Author: Gloria Gaither

#31. Whatever else the election of Barack Obama represented - some have called it redemption, others have called it the triumph of style over substance - it was the ultimate victory for people who believe that black political gains are of utmost importance to black progress in America. - Author: Jason L. Riley

#32. Career progression often depends upon taking risks and advocating for oneself - traits that girls are discouraged from exhibiting. This may explain why girls' academic gains have not yet translated into significantly higher numbers of women in top jobs. - Author: Sheryl Sandberg

#33. For every loss, there is a hidden gain. And for every gain, there is a hidden loss. - Author: Hazrat Inayat Khan

#34. One gains a double benefit in writing about the past, conjuring up how things might have been, and at the same time acquiring a different perspective on the present. - Author: Robert Harris

#35. Anyone who has followed the U.S. economy in recent years can tell you while corporate America and their wealthy executives have recovered from the last recession, middle-class families have not. About 95 percent of income gains between 2009 and 2012 went to the top one percent. - Author: James P. Hoffa

#36. A churlish courtesy rarely comes but either for gain or falsehood. - Author: Philip Sidney

#37. Honor and profit lie not all in one sack. - Author: George Herbert

#38. Choose to obey the Lord quickly, always, in quiet times and in storms. As we do, our faith will be strengthened, we will find peace in this life, and we will gain the assurance that we and our families can qualify for eternal life in the world to come. - Author: Henry B. Eyring

#39. When laissez-faire creates instability, the move to a freer market can be something less than pure gain. - Author: Robert Kuttner

#40. Technology is probably the single biggest driver of productivity gains for the developed countries. For example, I think it's much more important than free trade. - Author: Peter Thiel

#41. We cannot rule out a situation in which a preemptive policy tightening becomes necessary, ... Such caution seems especially warranted with regard to the sharp rise in equity prices during the past two years. These gains have obviously raised questions of sustainability. - Author: Alan Greenspan

#42. You never gain something but that you lose something. - Author: Henry David Thoreau

#43. The forces of power, particularly corporate power, are impatient with what is adequate for a coherent community. Because power gains so little from community in the short run, it does not hesitate to destroy community for the long run. - Author: Wes Jackson

#44. But to gain a perfect view, one must go yet further, over a curving brow to a slight shelf on the extreme brink. - Author: John Muir

#45. Man's main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life. - Author: Viktor E. Frankl

#46. If one person gains spiritually, the whole world gains - Author: Mahatma Gandhi

#47. Vote; it's the most important right granted to you as a citizen. But unless you are a politician, stay out of politics because your gains will not change anything and your losses will only make you waste your time and many friendships. - Author: Ben Tolosa

#48. A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied, he is content. - Author: Alfred North Whitehead

#49. There are no gains without pains. - Author: Benjamin Franklin

#50. The strong are strengthened by reverses; the trouble is that the true meaning of events scores next to nothing in the match we play with men. Appearances decide our gains or losses and the points are trumpery. And a mere semblance of defeat may hopelessly checkmate us. - Author: Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#51. 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. - Author: John B. Tabb

#52. Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for. - Author: Stephen Covey

#53. To conquer himself is the greatest victory that man can gain. - Author: Ignatius Of Loyola

#54. most widespread gains in brain training come from programs that simultaneously address multiple aspects of a person, such as traditional martial arts training and enriched school curricula. - Author: Scott Barry Kaufman

#55. The greatest gains that we will ever experience arise from the greatest sacrifices that we have ever known. - Author: Craig D. Lounsbrough

#56. Let honesty and industry be thy constant companions, and spend one penny less than thy clear gains; then shall thy pocket begin to thrive; creditors will not insult, nor want oppress, nor hungerness bite, nor nakedness freeze thee - Author: Benjamin Franklin

#57. Studies have shown that since women have had access to the pill and family planning measures, they have made huge gains in both wages and in careers that were dominated by men. - Author: Jennifer Granholm

#58. Merit and knowledge will not gain hearts, though they will secure them when gained. - Author: Lord Chesterfield

#59. Despite all the gains for democracy in the world, in many countries anyone who wants to publish truths unwelcome to the government risks suppression and criminal punishment. - Author: Anthony Lewis

#60. It is one thing to be able to state the price the antagonist paid, another to be able to count you own real gains. - Author: Barbara Deming

#61. A student who listens gains more than a sage who speaks. - Author: Matshona Dhliwayo

#62. Philosophical knowledge is knowledge which reason gains from concepts; mathematical knowledge is knowledge which reason gains from the construction of concepts. - Author: Immanuel Kant

#63. We've always known you can gain circulation or viewers by cheapening the product, and now you're finding the bad driving out the good. - Author: Walter Cronkite

#64. An act of renunciation is an act of union with God. The Divine Master looks lovingly upon a person who gains a victory over self. - Author: Madeleine Sophie Barat

#65. There are men who gain from their wealth only the fear of losing it. - Author: Antoine Rivarol

#66. Art objects are inanimate sad bits of matter hanging in the dark when no one is looking. The artist only does half the work; the viewer has to come up with the rest, and it is by empowering the viewer that the miracle of art gains its force. - Author: Vik Muniz

#67. To accept opinions is to gain the good solid feeling of being correct without having to think. - Author: C. Wright Mills

#68. If the plan is to see what happens, a team is guaranteed to succeed - at seeing what happens - but won't necessarily gain validated learning - If you cannot fail, you cannot learn. - Author: Eric Ries

#69. Whoever gains the palm by merit, let him hold it. - Author: Horatio Nelson

#70. What is the sign of every literary decadence? That life no longer dwells in the whole. The word becomes sovereign and leaps out of the sentence, the sentence reaches out and obscures the meaning of the page, the page gains life at the expense of the whole - the whole is no longer a whole. - Author: Friedrich Nietzsche

#71. He who gains time gains everything. - Author: Benjamin Disraeli

#72. For however much the state may gain by not having to fund roads on its own, society would lose in aggregate if the open commons of transportation were lost. - Author: Lawrence Lessig

#73. Democratic Development is a process of political struggle in which democrats work gains the upper hand in the society over non-democrats which directs aid at core political processes and institutions especially elections, political parties and politically oriented civil groups. - Author: David Eddings

#74. I'd rather learn how to prevent failure than how to gain success, because for what is success other than a state of mind? - Author: Og Mandino

#75. We should be working to live, not living to work. We have created this "individualistic culture" were living to work has been centered around material gains. Working to live is a better approach because it emphasis on the human experiences and the condition of living. - Author: Henry Johnson Jr

#76. False world, thou ly'st: thou canst not lend The least delight: Thy favours cannot gain a friend, They are so slight. - Author: Francis Quarles

#77. Men tend to gain wholeness by acquiring the qualities that are wrongly called feminine. - Author: Gloria Steinem

#78. Teach erring man to spurn the rage of gain. - Author: Oliver Goldsmith

#79. Learn weeping, and thou shalt gain laughing. - Author: George Herbert

#80. Sin gains power over us not by its indomitable force but by our divided heart. - Author: Bryan Chapell

#81. Mitt Romney privatizes the gains from his enterprises, but spreads the costs to the rest of us. Seems that 'free stuff' is in the eye of the beholder. - Author: Jennifer Granholm

#82. A career is a portfolio of projects that teach you new skills, gain you new expertise, develop new capabilities, grow your colleague set, and constantly reinvent you as a brand. - Author: Tom Peters

#83. No one gains from fair employment law and legislation if there is no employment to be had. - Author: John F. Kennedy

#84. If China someday gains a more fair, just, and accountable system of government, it will be due to the hard work and efforts of the Chinese people, not due to the inexorable workings of any particular technology. - Author: Rebecca MacKinnon

#85. We must lose all for Christ in order to gain all for Christ. - Author: Edward McKendree Bounds

#86. To deny being lovers in order to gain something.That can result in a much worse situation than one can imagine. - Author: Jung Woo

#87. It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper. - Author: Samuel Butler

#88. I must not refrain from saying that India can gain more by waiving the right of punishment. - Author: Mahatma Gandhi

#89. There is empirical evidence that leading brands that keep investing during recessions gain share. - Author: Ken Kaess

#90. Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel. - Author: Tryon Edwards

#91. We gain or strengthen a testimony by bearing it. - Author: Dallin H. Oaks

#92. People are willing to get short-term gains at the risk of long-term choices ... - Author: Rick Rubin

#93. If you can stay back, you can wait an extra split-second longer, and then you become more relaxed, and that's when you gain confidence. - Author: Justin Morneau

#94. I am pleased and reassured by the fact that a lot of younger playwrights seem to pay me some attention and gain some nourishment from what I do. - Author: Edward Albee

#95. The greatest thing we can possibly gain from this life is the ability to love, and to love greatly. - Author: Harold Klemp

#96. When you find errors in conventional wisdom-when everyone says A and A is not true-you gain competitive advantage. Only a few times do you have to find errors in conventional wisdom to make a living. - Author: Larry Ellison

#97. Video games are the comic books of our time ... It's a medium that gains no respect among the intelligentsia. - Author: Guillermo Del Toro

#98. When people think of the outcomes of their decisions, they think much more short term than that. They think in terms of gains and losses. - Author: Daniel Kahneman

#99. If there is a Way involving the spirit of not being defeated, to help oneself and gain honour, it is the Way of Strategy. - Author: Miyamoto Musashi

#100. There is a native baseness in the ambition which seeks beyond its desert, that never shows more conspicuously than when, no matter how, it temporarily gains its object. - Author: William Gilmore Simms