Gains quotes
772 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Women are the most charitable creatures, and the most troublesome. He who shuns women passes up the trouble, but also the benefits. He who puts up with them gains the benefits, but also the trouble. As the saying goes, there's no honey without bees."
"A man's enjoyment of all good things is in exact proportion to the pains he has undergone to gain them."
"Each victory gained over oneself means new strength to gain more victories."
"The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution"
"Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience. You need experience to gain wisdom."
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"I have nothing to lose, but something to gain."
"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."
"To gain your own voice, forget about having it heard. Become a saint of your own province and your own consciousness."
"Americans care about their past, but for short term gain they ignore it and tear down everything that matters."
"A hobby is, of course, an abomination, as are all consuming interests and passions that do not lead directly to large, personal gain."
"We kill the women. We kill the babies. We kill the blind. We kill the cripples. We kill them all.... When you get through killing them all, go to the goddamn graveyard and kill them a-goddamn-gain because they didn't die hard enough."
"It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain"
"Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise."
"Our life and our death is with our neighbor. If we gain our brother, we have gained God, but if we scandalize our brother, we have sinned against Christ."
"Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he - That when they speak truth they are not believed."
"Both dreams and neurotic dream-states have as their function the avoidance of displeasure, but the dream-states also serve to provide a positive pleasure gain."
"You must accept the fact that there is no help but self-help. I cannot tell you how to gain freedom since freedom exists within you."
"It's terrible to allow conventional habits to gain a hold on a whole household; to eat, sleep and live by clock ticks."
"Everything you gain in life will rot and fall apart, and all that will be left of you is what was in your heart."
"What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious."
"No gains without pains."
"People gain so much hope when they know they are not experiencing something alone."
"In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies."
"Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life."
"Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do."
