Gains Quotes
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I was spending a lot of money and overcompensating to feel superior in the gym, and now that the gear was locked in, I could go back to focusing on my gains.
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I felt sure we could gain the upper hand by putting ourselves in the mindset of the Incas.
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Possession hinders enjoyment. It merely gives you the right to keep things for or from others, and thus you gain more enemies than friends.
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Where charity keeps pace with gain, industry is blessed.
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We hold on so tightly that our hands are unavailable to reach out for the happiness we could gain by letting go.
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An house is of a double nature, viz., one, wherein it is a way and means of expence, the other as it is an instrument and tool of gain.
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The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.
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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.
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She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
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I do think it's dangerous when you are overly secularizing, and sometimes you get very smart, and sometimes [you] gain a lot of smarts, but you lose a lot of wisdom.
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We must learn to lean upon ourselves; we must learn to plan and execute business enterprises of our own; we must learn to venture our pennies if we would gain dollars.
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The most immediate task is to make certain that no state or combination of states gains the capacity to expel the United States from Eurasia or even to diminish significantly its decisive arbitration role.
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It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.
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He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.
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A private Life is to be preferrd; the Honour and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with the Comfort of it.
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Okay, can you pass yourself off as a magician and gain Gerald's trust and pass us information about Celeste's plans and save all the magicians who want to be saved? Jaime asked. "Because if so awesome. I shall stay here and eat pie.
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Another technique for fending off suffering is the employment of the displacements of libido which our mental apparatus permits of and through which its function gains so much in flexibility. The task here is that of shifting the instinctual aims in such a way that they cannot come up against frustration from the external world.
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If one person gains spiritually, the whole world gains.
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We have to learn to face our fears and push ourselves. If you're living on earth and you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much room. When you push past the fear and realize that what you feared was not a big deal, you gain more confidence.
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No matter where you are, the root of you is designed from a young age. So if my confidence was taken as a child, you can gain back a lot of the confidence, but that root of the cavity will still be there.
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Maybe a man in a million could unite the Hallows, Harry. I was fit only to possess the meanest of them, the least extraordinary. I was fit to own the Elder Wand, and not to boast of it, and not to kill with it. I was permitted to tame and to use it, because I took it, not for gain, but to save others from it.
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I think that if he Donald Trump does really want to make gains, if he does want to find a path to those voters who are in the middle, then he needs to do different things than just do these rallies.
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I'd rather learn how to prevent failure than how to gain success, because for what is success other than a state of mind?
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I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses.