Top 1200 Personal Gain Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Things we wish to be true are apt to gain too ready credit with us.

When your goal is to gain experience, perspective, and knowledge, failure is no longer a possibility

He celebrates yesterday's victory in order to gain more strength for tomorrow's battle.

Past experience has shown that the Islamists gain space when civilian authority weakens.

Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.

What should we gain by a definition, as it can only lead us to other undefined terms?

Only through repentance do we gain access to the atoning grace of Jesus Christ.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by doing the thing which you think you cannot do.

Almost all good businesses engage in 'pain today, gain tomorrow' activities.

To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we cannot cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?

If you're winning games, the confidence flows, and you gain a rhythm, which I've experienced before.

It is frankly a mistake of amateurs to believe you can gain the upper hand in a diplomatic negotiation.

Gandhi and Mandela and Churchill and JFK and Reagan and Thatcher and Sarkozy and Franklin and Washington set the tone to an incredible degree-their "personal style" was their "brand." ("It" starts with personal style of the tip-top leadership team. Sorry to be politically insensitive, but who would give a hoot about Tibet if it weren't for the look and style of the Dalai Lama?) Boss at any level: You're either on the "it" boat-or not.

The power of faith is suspending judgment long enough to gain the rewards available.

Give way to your opponent; thus will you gain the crown of victory.

The workers have nothing to gain from this war, but they stand to lose everything that is dear to them.

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

No doubt science cannot admit of compromises, and can only bring out the complete truth. Hence there must be controversy, and the strife may be, and sometimes must be, sharp. But must it even then be personal? Does it help science to attack the man as well as the statement? On the contrary, has not science the noble privilege of carrying on its controversies without personal quarrels?

Sometimes a 1-yard gain on third-and-1 is a big play. People take that for granted.

Lord, let me find my life in thee, and not in the mire of this world's favour or gain.

Oh, what a catastrophe for man when he cut himself off from the rhythm of the year, from his unison with the sun and the earth. Oh, what a catastrophe, what a maiming of love when it was a personal, merely personal feeling, taken away from the rising and the setting of the sun, and cut off from the magic connection of the solstice and the equinox!

I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.

Get Health. No labor, effort nor exercise that can gain it must be grudged.

An aching tooth is better out than in. To lose a rotting member is a gain.

I'll be happy if I can gain even the smallest place inside the literary imagination of U.S. readers.

I tend to be slim and you know, I actually can lose weight quicker than I can gain it.

The abuse of congressional power for pure partisan gain has become a specialty of the GOP.

Facts are only tools to gain control over yourself and other people.

At times it may seem that our trials are focused on areas of our lives and parts of our souls with which we seem least able to cope. Since personal growth is an intended outcome of these challenges, it should come as no surprise that the trials can be very personal-almost laser guided to our particular needs or weaknesses.

But though that place I never gain, Herein lies comfort for my pain: I will be worthy of it.

I weigh myself regularly and if I gain even one pound I get really excited.

Men tend to gain wholeness by acquiring the qualities that are wrongly called feminine.

In collaborative cultures, failure and uncertainty are not protected but shared and discussed to gain support.

No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.

I will say that my personal business is my personal business. And I will leave it at that.

I must not refrain from saying that India can gain more by waiving the right of punishment.

You don't lose anything, in fact you gain a lot by having free-thinking people.

Superiority to Fate Is difficult to gain 'Tis not conferred of Any But possible to earn.

And the most difficult of tasks to keep Heights which the soul is competent to gain.

Now the truth is, writing is a great way to deal with a lot of difficult emotional issues. It can be very therapeutic, but that's best done in your journal, or on your blog if you're an exhibitionist. Trying to put a bunch of *specific* stuff from your personal life into your story usually just isn't appropriate unless you're writing a memoir or a personal essay or something of the sort.

It is only people with a sense of personal responsibility who can help others. It is only people with a sense of personal responsibility who can be helped in a lasting way.

For the average home-user, anti-virus software is a must. A personal firewall such as Zone Alarm and running a program like HFNetcheck, which is a free download for personal users. It checks your system to see if anything needs to be patched. I'd also recommend a program such as SpyCop to periodically check for any spyware on your system.

There is empirical evidence that leading brands that keep investing during recessions gain share.

Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain.

Each time we embrace someone warmly, we gain an extra day of life.

No voice teacher can be all things to all people. You have to gain information from whatever sources you can. You have to listen.

When public officials turn to financial gain for official acts, we have no choice but to prosecute.

You know what you can gain when you sit down with the Moroccans. As a person and as a musician. That's how you grow.

It is conceivable that a party might gain the majority in parliament and claims the government for itself.

Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.

Crime succeeds by sudden despatch; honest counsels gain vigor by delay.

If you appeal to the crowd, either by being humorous or brutal or eccentric, you gain favor.

When you become content in life, you gain the power to bless others. This is the law of nature.

My work is my life. I've worked so much that I don't know the difference between my personal life and my work, or my personal friends and my work friends.

Prefer punishment to disgraceful gain; for the one is painful but once, but the other for one's whole life.

I think most of my life I have spent trying to gain normalcy, whatever that may be.

My style is personal, my style of writing is personal, and I believe in that. I believe what comes out of me is an individual thing, and that's why I, I believe in the individual.

When we have accepted the worst, we have nothing more to lose. And that automatically means we have everything to gain.

It cannot be good to tax the Americans... You will lose more than you gain.