Gain Quotes
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With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stock broker, can gain a reputation for being civilized.
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It really is the height of irresponsibility, and it appears to be a calculated effort to mislead people for personal monetary gain.
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Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.
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Pessimism is playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child's play.
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The prodigality of millionaires is comparable only to their greed of gain. Let some whim or passion seize them and money is of no account. In fact these Croesuses find whims and passions harder to come by than gold.
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To know that all is well, even if late will come to know it, is at least some gain.
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It's not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save that makes us rich; not what we read but what we remember that makes us learned; and not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.
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I have never been interested in personal gain or profit. This business and this studio have been my entire life.
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Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
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Some lose yet gain, others gain and yet lose.
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It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.
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If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible, since, having, neither parts nor limits, He has no affinity to us. We are then incapable of knowing either what He is or if He is. [So] you must wager. Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is. Let us estimate these two chances. If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then without hesitation that he is.
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...it is not the obscure passages in Scripture that bind you but the ones you understand. With these you are to comply at once. If you understood only one passage in all of Scripture, well, then you must do that first of all. It will be this passage God asks you about. Do not first sit down and ponder the obscure passages. God's Word is given in order that you shall act according to it, not that you gain expertise in interpreting it.
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Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life.
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Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.
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Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.
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The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain.
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Using an artful tool does not make one a dry technician. It seems to me that people that are anxious about our technical advancement, confuse means and ends. Naturally a person that only works for material gain will not harvest something that is worth living for. But the machine is not an end in itself. The airplane is not an end. It is a tool. Just like the plough.
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The allies we gain by victory will turn against us upon the bare whisper of our defeat.
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My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure.
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Is it possible, then, to doubt that we can and must gain victory over the German invaders? The enemy is not as strong as some terror-stricken pseudo-intellectuals picture him. The devil is not as terrible as he is painted.
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But, because my private lectures and domestic pupils are a great hinderance and intteruption of my studies, I wish to live entirely exempt from the former, and in great measure from the latter. ... in short, I should wish to gain my bread from my writings.
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Books seem to me to be pestilent things, and infect all that trade in them...with something very perverse and brutal. Printers, binders, sellers, and others that make a trade and gain out of them have universally so odd a turn and corruption of mind that they have a way of dealing peculiar to themselves, and not conformed to the good of society and that general fairness which cements mankind.
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I must not refrain from saying that India can gain more by waiving the right of punishment.
