Quotes on Gain

To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.

Author: Aeschylus

What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.

Author: Andre Agassi

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

Author: Robert Baden-Powell

One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.

Author: Josh Billings

The mandate you go with is intimidating and also is a source of respect that you gain, because you have come with this mandate from the United Nations.

Author: Lakhdar Brahimi

FDR created today's 30 percent coalition. Obama wants to finish the job by turning it into a permanent ruling majority. There's nothing new about the Obama Narrative. It is the FDR Narrative on steroids. It is intended to lead to greater statism and political gain.

Author: Arthur Brooks

We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon and to prepare for new journeys to the worlds beyond our own.

Author: George Bush

It's not right to say that our loss in Vietnam turned out to be a gain. But lessons were learned. And they were the right lessons.

Author: Tom Clancy

By use you possess gain; by disuse you decline and lose.

Author: Edwin Cole

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

Author: George Crabbe

On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.

Author: Charles Darwin

To gain what is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.

Author: Bernadette Devlin

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

Author: Ralph Emerson

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.

Author: Epicurus

Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

Author: Euripides

We pay some price when necessary to bring down inflation but that price is temporary and is not large relative to the permanent gain from reduced inflation.

Author: Martin Feldstein

Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.

Author: Benjamin Franklin

Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.

Author: Milton Friedman

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

Author: Johann Goethe

I don't think I gain anything by seeing myself.

Author: Tony Hancock

Between each album I try to gain a new insight that I didn't have before and perhaps write a song about something that I've written about before, but from a fresh viewpoint.

Author: Don Henley

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Author: George Herbert

Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin.

Author: Hesiod

So for us any gain we had in election, one vote that we got, was a win.

Author: Imran Khan

I've never had to turn my hand to anything for monetary gain, other than pretending to be somebody else. I'm deeply fortunate.

Author: Ben Kingsley

A mutual arrangement, I repeat, is the only satisfactory medium whereby the present system can be carried on with any degree of satisfaction, and in such an arrangement the employers have more to gain than the workers.

Author: James Larkin

The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.

Author: Henry Longfellow

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

Author: Niccolo Machiavelli

I certainly believe that we gain through open trade and liberalisation.

Author: Peter Mandelson

Redistricting is a deeply political process, with incumbents actively seeking to minimize the risk to themselves (via bipartisan gerrymanders) or to gain additional seats for their party (via partisan gerrymanders).

Author: Thomas Mann

So our problem is not Labour, it is us, is making us attractive enough to gain disillusioned Labour support and to compete effectively with the Lib Dems for those loose votes.

Author: Francis Maude

But in practice, if often comes down to not suffering a loss as big as the huge gain you made a while ago.

Author: Merton Miller

If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Author: Blaise Pascal

While I do not hesitate to applaud certain aspects of the resolution honoring the sacrifices of our courageous soldiers who are risking their lives in Iraq, I cannot be supportive of capitalizing on these very sacrifices for political gain.

Author: Ed Pastor

You must lose everything in order to gain anything.

Author: Brad Pitt

He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.

Author: Titus Plautus

Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Author: Alexander Pope

Since he is of no use anymore, there is no gain if he lives and no loss if he dies.

Author: Pol Pot

By his own efforts man could never gain the true and desired riches.

Author: Joseph Rutherford

Now I understand what was happening. I don't particularly gain water; I don't have water retention.

Author: Suzanne Somers

I worked hard. I worked late. I went in early. I did everything I could to gain an advantage.

Author: Joe Theismann

Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth -it's like playing a slot machine. I lose $20 million, I gain $20 million.

Author: Ted Turner

Increasingly prices are set by sellers to raise their prices without a loss of sales sufficient to wipe out the gain.

Author: William Vickrey

I could never gain much weight. I've always had a fast metabolism.

Author: Marc Wallice

Everyone in a complex system has a slightly different interpretation. The more interpretations we gather, the easier it becomes to gain a sense of the whole.

Author: Margaret Wheatley

Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

Author: E. Wilson