A Quote by Laozi

For one gains by losing And loses by gaining.

Laozi

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Gaining Gains Loses Losing

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Laozi
Chinese - Philosopher
604 BC - 531 BC

If the Christian doesn't get reality right, he loses effectiveness in this life. If the non-Christian doesn't get reality right, he loses much in this life, and everything and the next one. As Jesus put it, "What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his soul?"

Greg Koukl

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Miguel de Cervantes

It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.

Vincent Van Gogh

Intelligence in chains loses in lucidity what it gains in intensity.

Albert Camus

I'm one of those guys that loses and gains weight out of my face.

T.J. Dillashaw

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.

Friedrich Nietzsche

A man who loses his money gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.

George Bernard Shaw

It is by serving God and others that we store up heavenly treasures. Everyone gains; no one loses.

Randy Alcorn

You're gaining more than you're losing in a small town.

Mike Leach

If there is such a thing as saintly renunciation, it is renouncing small gains for better gains; not for no gains, but seeing with open eyes what is better and what is inferior. Even if the choice has to lie between two momentary gains, one of these would always be found to be more real and lasting; that is the one that should be followed for the time.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Never gaining a good reputation is not nearly as painful as losing one.

Raymond Burr

To paraphrase the Bible, what shall it profit a man (or a woman) who gains the whole world but loses his or her own family?

Billy Graham

One gains by losing self for others and not by hoarding for oneself.

Watchman Nee

No Child Left Behind's fourth-grade gains aren't learning gains, they're testing gains. That's why they don't last. The law is a distraction from things that really count.

Jonathan Kozol

So long as an opinion is strongly rooted in the feelings, it gains rather than loses in stability by having a preponderating weight of argument against it.