Gains Quotes
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Furthermore, the unearned increment from land appears in the United States as a gain to the first comers, who have here laid the foundations of a new State.
William Graham Sumner
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It is a unique challenge for a woman to demonstrate that they can lead, that they will be strong, that they can handle crisis, and that they gain respect.
Wendy Greuel
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If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch indeed who will not give them to him. Such a disposition is like lighting another man's candle by one's own, which loses none of its brilliancy by what the other gains.
William Penn
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To be able to say that "if we change our point of view in the following way ... things are simpler" is always a gain.
John Tukey
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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?
Og Mandino
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Stories and objects share something, a patina...Perhaps patina is a process of rubbing back so that the essential is revealed...But it also seems additive, in the way that a piece of oak furniture gains over years and years of polishing.
Edmund de Waal
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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.
Alexandre Dumas
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It is easy and quick to fritter away gains regarding macroeconomic stability.
Urjit Patel
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If one person gains spiritually, the whole world gains.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Broadly speaking, in the past few years, we've more than doubled the editorial staff in Mother Jones, as part of ramping up daily operations that have resulted in huge gains in audience, a slew of awards, new multimedia endeavors, and of course scoops like the 47 percent.
Clara Jeffery
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I learn more with each film, and I gain confidence in my style of working. But at the same time, each one is a new monster.
Amber Sealey
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He who has no light in his heart, what will he gain from the festival of lamps.
Wasif Ali Wasif
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Stories are a kind of thing, too. Stories and objects share something, a patina. I thought I had this clear, two years ago before I started, but I am no longer sure how this works. Perhaps a patina is a process of rubbing back so that the essential is revealed, the way that a striated stone tumbled in a river feels irreducible, the way that this netsuke of a fox has become little more than a memory of a nose and a tail. But it also seems additive, in the way that a piece of oak furniture gains over years and years of polishing, and the way the leaves of my medlar shine.
Edmund de Waal
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He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.
Adolf Hitler
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Not by gain our life is measured, But by what we've lost 'Tis scored; 'Tis not how much wine is drunken But how much has been outpoured. For the strength of love never standeth In the sacrifice we bear; He who has the greatest suffering Ever has the most to share.
Watchman Nee
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For one gains by losing And loses by gaining.
Lao Tzu
