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

  Albert Schweitzer

  Motivational, Strength, Stress

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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 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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• 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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• Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

  Langston Hughes

  Beauty, Nature, Fall

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• All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony. Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace.

  Rumi

  Peace, Anxiety, Desire

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• All in the dark we grope along, And if we go amiss We learn at least which path is wrong, And there is gain in this. We do not always win the race By only running right; We have to tread the mountain's base Before we reach its height.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Running, Dark, Winning

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.792, Delphi Classics

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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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• 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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• 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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  You must lose everything in order to gain anything.

  Brad Pitt

  Funny, Order, Insightful

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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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• There is abundant testimony that if we choose love rather than self, we gain immeasurably.

  Federico Fellini

  Sweet Love, Self, Testimony

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• Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.

  Epicurus

  Philosophical, Hard Times, Skills

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