Gains Quotes
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Integrity gains strength by use.
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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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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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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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However depressed I may be I am not in the habit of giving up a project without having tried everything, even the 'impossible', to gain my end.
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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.
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A person that would secure to himself great deference will, perhaps, gain his point by silence as effectually as by anything he can say.
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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.
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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.
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The gains mostly reflect expectations of more rate cuts in the months ahead.
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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.
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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.
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Everyone wants to be perceived a certain way, to gain the things that they have decided are the things that they want in their life.
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Not even a mighty warrior can break a frail arrow when it is multiplied and supported by its fellows. As long as you brothers support one another and render assistance to one another, your enemies can never gain the victory over you. But if you fall away from each other your enemy can brake you like frail arrows, one at a time.
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He who has no light in his heart, what will he gain from the festival of lamps.
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It is easy and quick to fritter away gains regarding macroeconomic stability.
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If one person gains spiritually, the whole world gains.
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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.
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He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.
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If people would stop objectifying abstractions (which they probably never will), or if they would stop objectifying the abstractions they make consciously (which they might learn to do), at least half the pseudo-questions befuddling the world today - as they have befuddled it since time immemorial - would vanish. And that would be a very, very great gain.
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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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For one gains by losing And loses by gaining.
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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.
