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

  Herodotus

  Inspirational, Business, Men

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• The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.

  David Bohm

  Learning, Knowledge, Thinking

  New Scientist (p. 42), February 1993.

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

  Laurence Sterne

  Strength, Wisdom, Loneliness

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

  Albert Schweitzer

  Motivational, Strength, Stress

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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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• 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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• You gain strength, courage, and confidence by doing the thing which you think you cannot do.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Running, Fear, Cancer

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• The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Yield

  Thomas Jefferson (2015). “Selected letters of Thomas Jefferson”, p.5, Lulu.com

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• Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men.

  George S. Patton

  Military, War, 4th Of July

  "Cavalry Journal", September 1933.

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  You must lose everything in order to gain anything.

  Brad Pitt

  Funny, Order, Insightful

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• Reason gains all people by compelling none.

  Aaron Hill

  People, Reason, Compelling

  "Alzira: A Tragedy". Play by Aaron Hill, 1736.

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• Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.

  Epicurus

  Philosophical, Hard Times, Skills

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• No gains without pains.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Pain, Conservative, Without Pain

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.249

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

  Oliver Herford

  Deep Thought, Moss, Rolling

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• We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Temptation, Tempted

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.298, Library of America

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• The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.

  Joseph Addison

  Humble, Humility, Literature

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• If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.

  Marya Mannes

  Money, Loss, Sisterhood

  Marya Mannes (1986). “The Best of Marya Mannes”

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• On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Views, Ordinary

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.5428, Delphi Classics

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• War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

  Napoleon Hill

  War, Men, Desire

  Napoleon Hill (2008). “The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams”, p.581, Penguin

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