Gain Quotes

• There are travelers who fear to own delicate hands more than to meet a lion, and soldiers who would rather lose a limb than gain a beautiful nose by artificial methods.

  

  Robert Wilson Lynd
  • Lion
  • Soldiers
  • Travelers

• Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Belief
  • Lose
  • Proved

• Ninety percent of people who lose weight gain it back. It's very sad.

  

  Richard Simmons
  • Weight
  • Gain
  • Lose Weight

• Some people gain weight during times of stress, but I lose weight.

  

  Cindy McCain
  • Stress
  • Lose
  • Weight

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

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Lose
  • Gain
  • Hesitation

• We gain so much by quickness, and lose so much by slowness.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Lose
  • Gain
  • Quickness

• He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Fool
  • Lose
  • Gain

• Superiority to Fate Is difficult to gain 'Tis not conferred of Any But possible to earn.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Fate
  • Gain
  • Superiority

• Not many appreciate the ultimate power and potential usefulness of basic knowledge accumulated by obscure, unseen investigators who, in a lifetime of intensive study, may never see any practical use for their findings but who go on seeking answers to the unknown without thought of financial or practical gain.

  

  Eugenie Clark
  • Knowledge
  • Study
  • Investigators

• I still feel there are much smarter self-promoters out there than me. I am very methodical about my messaging, and I know how to gain attention very quickly.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Gain
  • Messaging
  • Self-promoters

• There's in Outcast so much for my ear, brain and mind and body to gain.

  

  Eyedea
  • Brain
  • Gain
  • Outcast

• Sometimes gain comes from losing, and sometimes loss comes from gaining.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Something
  • Losing
  • Gain

• I've seen a big gain in cardio since I went vegetarian and even gained a little more going vegan.

  

  Andy Lally
  • Vegetarian
  • Gain
  • Cardio

• It is not true that on an exchange of commodities we give value for value. On the contrary, each of the two contracting parties in every case, gives a less for a greater value. … If we really exchanged equal values, neither party could make a profit. And yet, they both gain, or ought to gain. Why? The value of a thing consists solely in its relation to our wants. What is more to the one is less to the other, and vice versa. … It is not to be assumed that we offer for sale articles required for our own consumption. … We wish to part with a useless thing, in order to get one that we need; we want to give less for more. … It was natural to think that, in an exchange, value was given for value, whenever each of the articles exchanged was of equal value with the same quantity of gold. … But there is another point to be considered in our calculation. The question is, whether we both exchange something superfluous for something necessary.

  

  Etienne Bonnot de Condillac
  • Value
  • Consumption
  • Commodities

• I once heard that women dress for women -- not for men -- and I think that has some truth to it. Men, what do they know? They don't know if you gain or lose five pounds. They're oblivious to those kinds of things. A lot of men will say "I like you just as you are." And you're like "But I'm bloated!" If they're attracted to you, they're attracted to you.

  

  Scarlett Johansson
  • Women
  • Truth
  • Attracted

• I believe in nonfat. I gain two pounds when I eat a lamb chop.

  

  Evelyn Lauder
  • Gain
  • I Believe In
  • Pounds

• The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class had all to gain and nothing to lose, while the subject class has had nothing to gain and all to lose - especially their lives.

  

  Eugene V. Debs
  • Lose
  • Battles
  • Declared

• I have issued the command, and I'll have anybody who utters but one word of criticism executed by a firing squad, that our war aim does not consist in reaching certain lines, but in the physical destruction of the enemy. Accordingly, I have placed my death's-head formation in readiness, for the present only in the East, with orders to them to send to death mercilessly and without compassion, men, women, and children of Polish derivation and language. Only thus shall we gain the living space which we need. Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Death
  • Language
  • Criticism

• The challenge is not so much learning to accept the terrible things that have happened but learning how to gain mastery over one’s internal sensations and emotions. Sensing, naming, and identifying what is going on inside is the first step to recovery.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Learning
  • Challenge
  • Emotions

• Aristotle, asked what those who tell lies gain by it, replied: That when they speak the truth they are not believed.

  

  Elizabeth Bear
  • Believed
  • Gain
  • Aristotle

• Fame of self: Which matters more? Self or wealth: Which is more precious? Gain or loss: Which is more painful?

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Wealth
  • Matters
  • Gain

• To be taught to read—what is the use of that, if you know not whether what you read is false or true? To be taught to write or to speak—but what is the use of speaking, if you have nothing to say? To be taught to think—nay, what is the use of being able to think, if you have nothing to think of? But to be taught to see is to gain word and thought at once, and both true.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Thinking
  • True
  • Read

• We consciously use only a small portion of our brain, but we're constantly performing complex operations in other areas even though we're unaware of it. Savants gain access to unconscious areas when the brain's bossy left hemisphere is muted. The left is in charge of much of our organized thought and decision-making and tends to suppress the right side, which generally rules creative activities.

  

  Berit Brogaard
  • Brain
  • Charge
  • Activities

• Expectation is contentment - Gain satiety.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Expectation
  • Contentment
  • Gain

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