Gains Quotes - Page 36

• The crossroads where government meets enterprise can be an exciting crossroads. It can also be a corrupt crossroads. It requires moral rectitude to separate public service from private gain.

  David Brooks

  Government, Moral, Crossroads

  "The Gingrich Tragedy". Article by David Brooks, www.nytimes.com. December 8, 2011.

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• Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it. As soon you apply yourself to orison, you will at once feel your senses gather themselves together: they seem like bees which return to the hive and there shut themselves up to work at the making of honey. At the first call of the will, they come back more and more quickly. At last, after countless exercises, of this kind, God disposes them to a state of utter rest and of perfect contemplation.

  Teresa of Avila

  Exercise, Self, Perfect

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• There is no creature so contemptible but by resolution may gain his point.

  Roger L'Estrange

  Perseverance, May, Resolution

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• The human mind, in proportion as it is deprived of external resources, sedulously labors to find within itself the means of happiness, learns to rely with confidence on its own exertions, and gains with greater certainty the power of being happy.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Mean, Mind, Resources

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• When institutions are endowed to train women for all departments connected with the family state, domestic labor, now so shunned and disgraced, will become honorable, will gain liberal compensation, and will enable every woman to secure an independence in employments suited to her sex. And when this is attained, there will be few or none who wish to enter the professions of men or take charge of civil government.

  Catharine Beecher

  Sex, Men, Independence

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• To gain freedom is to gain simplicity.

  Joan Miro

  Simplicity

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• What is one man's gain is another's loss.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Loss, Men, One Man

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• Scientific wealth tends to accumulate according to the law of compound interest. Every addition to knowledge of the properties of matter supplies the physical scientist with new instrumental means for discovering and interpreting phenomena of nature, which in their turn afford foundations of fresh generalisations, bringing gains of permanent value into the great storehouse of natural philosophy.

  Lord Kelvin

  Philosophy, Mean, Law

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• Happy the man who gains sagacity in youth, but thrice happy he who retains the fervour of youth in age.

  Dagobert D. Runes

  Men, Age, Youth

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• The attitude you bring to your giving will reflect the benefits you gain.

  Azim Jamal

  Attitude, Giving, Benefits

  Azim Jamal, Harvey McKinnon (2008). “The Power of Giving: How Giving Back Enriches Us All”, p.21, Penguin

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• Philanthropy is the duty of how we should behave when things go wrong for people, and how we can help to make things better for everyone - voluntarily, without being required to do it by the government, and for others, without private gain for ourselves.

  Robert L. Payton

  Government, People, Helping

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• The meaning of the living words that come out of the experiences of great hearts can never be exhausted by any one system of logical interpretation. They have to be endlessly explained by the commentaries of individual lives, and they gain an added mystery in each new revelation.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Heart, Mystery, Exhausted

  Rabindranath Tagore (2016). “SĀDHANĀ - The Realisation of life”, p.3, Rabindranath Tagore

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• There's no bad consequence to loving fully, comma with all your heart. You always gain by giving love.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Heart, Giving Love, Celebrity Relationship

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• In my day job, I worry non-stop about making wise investments for long-term gains.

  J.B. Pritzker

  Wise, Jobs, Long

  "Only Kids Can Fix This Economy" by J. B. Pritzker, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 26, 2010.

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• Any man would be forsworn to gain a kingdom.

  Roger Zelazny

  Men, Would Be, Kingdoms

  Roger Zelazny (1978*). “Nine princes in Amber. The guns of Avalon”

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• There are no temptations from which assailed virtue may not gain strength, instead of falling before them, vanquished and subdued.

  Albert Pike

  Fall, Temptation, May

  Albert Pike (2013). “Morals and Dogma”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• To know that all is well, even if late will come to know it, is at least some gain.

  Sophocles

  Late, Wells, Knows

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• For the love of gain would reconcile the weaker to the dominion of the stronger, and the possession of capital enabled the more powerful to reduce the smaller cities to subjection.

  Thucydides

  Powerful, Cities, Stronger

  Thucydides, Victor Davis Hanson, Robert B. Strassler (2008). “The Landmark Thucydides”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• Learn spiritual sciences, to recognize God and gain access to Him, no matter what religion or sect you belong to!

  Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi

  Spiritual, Matter, Access

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• To isolate the revolutionary ideologues and their killers we must gain the trust of the majority of Muslims. This can only happen if they are treated as equal citizens, not just in theory, and have access to decent education and jobs.

  Ian Buruma

  Education, Jobs, Majority

  "Europe's traditions of tolerance and multiculturalism put to test after Paris terror attacks". www.foxnews.com. February 19, 2015.

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• The liquid drops of tears that you have shed
  Shall come again, transform'd to orient pearl,
  Advantaging their loan with interest
  Of ten times double gain of happiness.

  William Shakespeare

  Tears, Pearls, Liquid

  William Shakespeare (1803). “The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.468

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• Ambition, the soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss, than gain which darkens him.

  William Shakespeare

  Ambition, Loss, Choices

  William Shakespeare (1826). “Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.741

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• Why am I more cautious as I age instead of the other way around? I wonder if it's all tied in to failure. I tend to forget my gains and remember only the losses. The failures have piled up, wreaking havoc with my confidence until, as an adult, I've become afraid to take chances.

  Joan Anderson

  Loss, Age, Way

  Joan Anderson (2011). “A Year by the Sea: Thoughts of an Unfinished Woman”, p.33, Broadway Books

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• If we view our children as stupid, naughty, disturbed, or guilty of their misdeeds, they will learn to behold themselves as foolish, faulty, or shameful specimens of humanity. They will regard us as judges from whom they wish to hide, and they will interpret everything we say as further proof of their unworthiness. If we view them as innocent, or at least merely ignorant, they will gain understanding from their experiences, and they will continue to regard us as wise partners.

  Polly Berrien Berends

  Wise, Children, Stupid

  Polly Berrien Berends (1987). “Whole child, whole parent”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• One of the reasons that Social Security is in so much trouble is that the only funding stream comes from people who get a wage. The people who get wages is declining dramatically. Most of the income in this country is made by people at the top who get dividends and - and capital gains.

  Mike Huckabee

  Country, People, Income

  Mike Huckabee at GOP primary debate at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, www.washingtonpost.com. August 6, 2015.

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