Gains Quotes

• The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

  Epictetus

  Positive, Encouraging, Uplifting

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  The end of labor is to gain leisure.

  Aristotle

  Philosophy, Work, Tunnels

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• I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.

  Barack Obama

  Family, Years, Payroll Tax

  Speech in Dover, New Hampshire, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. September 12, 2008.

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

  Jim Elliot

  Inspirational, Motivational, Christian

  "Blessed are the Persecuted". Sermon by Pastor Jason Lim, gospellight.sg. July 09, 2017.

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• Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

  George S. Patton

  Leadership, War, Men

  Cavalry Journal, September 1933.

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• A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.

  Oliver Herford

  Deep Thought, Moss, Rolling

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• One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Motivational, Strength, Stress

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• I was originally supposed to become an engineer but the thought of having to expend my creative energy on things that make practical everyday life even more refined, with a loathsome capital gain as the goal, was unbearable to me.

  Albert Einstein

  Origin Of Life, Goal, Creative

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.5, Princeton University Press

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• He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

  Adolf Hitler

  Rise To Power, Individual Happiness, Church Ministry

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• There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Kindness, Attachment, Slave Girl

  Harriet Ann Jacobs, Lydia Maria Child (2011). “The Deeper Wrong: Or, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.85, Cambridge University Press

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• Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Strong, Attachment

  Thomas Jefferson (2011). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 7: 28 November 1813 to 30 September 1814”, p.248, Princeton University Press

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• Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.

  Barbara Jordan

  Country, Guiding Principles, Ideas

  1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 12 July 1976, New York, NY

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• The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital from static to more dynamic situations, the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth of the economy.

  John F. Kennedy

  New Ventures, Decision, Risk

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, John F. Kennedy, 1963".

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• Despite the encouraging and wonderful gains and the changes for women which have occurred in my lifetime, there is still room to advance and to promote correction of the remaining deficiencies and imbalances.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Imbalance, Rooms, Wonderful

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• Whatever the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to the safety resulting from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish.

  Neil McDonald

  Freedom, Loss, Government

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• Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and its conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.

  Andrew Jackson

  Life, Country, 4th Of July

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward. Extreme party action, if continued in such a time, would ruin the party. Moderation is its only chance. The party out of power gains by all partisan conduct of those in power

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Party, Ruins, Chance

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The fact of the matter is, this is a very dynamic economy we have, and in this dynamic economy, you have a lot of job gains, but you also have job loss.

  Alexis Herman

  Jobs, Loss, Matter

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• There's a victory and defeat-the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats-which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

  Plato

  Character, Responsibility, Men

  Plato (2008). “Laws”, p.11, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Of course, with the increasing number of aeroplanes one gains increased opportunities for shooting down one's enemies, but at the same time, the possibility of being shot down one's self increases.

  Manfred von Richthofen

  Opportunity, Self, Numbers

  Manfred von Richthofen (2009). “The Red Baron”, p.118, BoD – Books on Demand

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• To show the world what long experience gains, requires not courage, though it calls for pains; but at life's outset to inform mankind is a bold effort of a valiant mind.

  George Crabbe

  Pain, Long, Effort

  George Crabbe (1861). “The Life and Poetical Works of the Rev. George Crabbe”, p.201

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• Evil gains work their punishment.

  Sophocles

  Punishment, Evil

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• By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses; one misses more nonsense than sense.

  Horace Walpole

  Missing, Nonsense, Deafness

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• All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.

  Herodotus

  Inspirational, Business, Men

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• In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

  Laurence Sterne

  Strength, Wisdom, Loneliness

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