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

  Herodotus

  Inspirational, Business, Men

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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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• For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Life, I Miss You

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.72, Bantam Classics

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• Doves oppose war on the grounds that the risks exceed the gains. War with Iraq could be very costly, possibly degenerating into urban warfare.

  Charles Krauthammer

  War, Iraq, Risk

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• Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.

  William Penn

  Forgiveness, Winning, Forgiving

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.166

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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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• 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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• 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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• The reason why many fail in battle is because they wait until the hour of battle. The reason why others succeed is because they have gained their victory on their knees long before the battle came. Anticipate your battles; fight them on your knees before temptation comes, and you will always have victory.

  R. A. Torrey

  Motivational, Success, Christian

  R. A. Torrey, Edward D. Andrews (2016). “CHRISTIAN LIVING: How to Succeed in the Christian Life [Updated and Expanded]”, p.259, Christian Publishing House

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• Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing journey thorough the world.

  Chinua Achebe

  Journey, People, Leader

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• Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyments have been intellectual joys.

  Honore de Balzac

  Keys, Joy, Intellectual

  "The Wild Ass's Skin". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1831.

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• No one making less than $250,000 under Barack Obama's plan will see one single penny of their tax raised, whether it's their capital gains tax, their income tax, investment tax, any tax.

  Joe Biden

  Income, Pennies, Investment

  Democratic Sen. Joe Biden and Republican Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, debated in St. Louis, Missouri, www.cnn.com. October 3, 2008.

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• It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.

  Samuel Butler

  Anger, Debate, Disputes

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4366, Delphi Classics

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• Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.

  Tryon Edwards

  Strength, Chains That Bind, Broken

  "A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern" by Tryon Edwards, New York, Cassell publishing company, (p. 212), 1891.

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• It is now common knowledge that the average American gains 7 pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day.

  Marilu Henner

  Thanksgiving, New Year, Average

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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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