A Quote by Henry David Thoreau

You never gain something but that you lose something.

Henry David Thoreau

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Henry David Thoreau
American - Author
July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862

If you're going to be passionate about something, be passionate about learning. If you're going to fight something, fight for those in need. If you're going to question something, question authority. If you're going to lose something, lose your inhibitions. If you're going to gain something, gain respect and confidence. And if you're going to hate something, hate the false idea that you are not capable of your dreams.

Daniel Goldston

You lose something in not being rooted, but you gain something by seeing the world differently. It's both a loss and a gift.

Claire Messud

Gollum was so interesting to me because he's morally ambivalent, and I love the notion of a quest that is to lose something. Not to gain, but to get rid of something.

Andy Serkis

For everything you gain, you lose something.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have nothing to lose, but something to gain.

Eminem

Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.

Norman Mailer

There is always something to lose. But maybe more to gain.

John Christopher

If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask!

W. Clement Stone

What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.

Andre Agassi

My knee-jerk is that it is comedy and, if you watch them all back-to-back, you will gain something and you will lose something.

Mitchell Hurwitz

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's hard because people think they have something to lose and the truth is they have everything to gain in trying to love somebody.

Maya Angelou

If you stand up to the human race you lose something called their 'goodwill'; if you kowtow to them you gain ... their permission to continue kowtowing.

Celia Green

If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Blaise Pascal

If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Blaise Pascal

He misses the feeling of creating something out of something. That’s right — something out of something. Because something out of nothing is when you make something up out of thin air, in which case it has no value. Anybody can do that. But something out of something means it was really there the whole time, inside you, and you discover it as part of something new, that’s never happened before.

Etgar Keret

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