Top 1200 Personal Gain Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

In this metropolis a number of lurking leeches infamously gain subsistence by practicing on the credulity of women.

It is one of the strictest conditions of initiation that occult knowledge may never be sold or used for gain.

An house is of a double nature, viz., one, wherein it is a way and means of expence, the other as it is an instrument and tool of gain.

O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize, And make my tongue victorious as her eyes.

I felt sure we could gain the upper hand by putting ourselves in the mindset of the Incas.

In one sense, you put a lot of yourself into a small press - it's your personal tastes that are on the line - so when criticism is levelled it can feel personal. But, on the other hand, it can be very welcome and necessary. You're never entirely impervious, and one of the main benefits of being a small operation is that you can change the way you do things quickly in response to criticism. In all instances it pays to have a sense of humour and perspective.

Very few men are fortunate enough to gain distinction during their first term in Congress.

Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your soul. Was it worth it?

The gain of lying is nothing else but not to be trusted of any, nor to be believed when we say the truth.

Personally, scoring goals creates confidence and I gain the mental stability and get poised from it.

See, I never gain an ounce, because, you know, my anxiety acts like aerobics.

Throughout the years I have tried to hone my skills to gain mastery over the music in my head.

Develop your reflective will and gain better insight before you say or do something.

Think what you like. There are people who die by remaining alive and others who gain life by dying.

Sometimes you must lose everything to gain it again, and the regaining is the sweeter for the pain of loss.

For this is England's greatest son, He that gain'd a hundred fights, And never lost an English gun.

Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.

To gain profit is important, but you must invest to build up assets that you can cash in in the future.

There is enough room in eternity for everyone to be enlightened. We gain or lose nothing by the success of others.

Don’t pursue business just for your own gain. Only answer the calls for help.

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

Ideally, it's great to gain inspiration from the script, but when filming starts, characters and their journeys can change.

You learn so much from competition you gain confidence every time you have to step up and perform

Hedda Hopper was a better direct opponent to [Dalton] Trumbo. We wanted to use Trumbo's battles to represent the larger battles, so the audience could understand the personal sacrifice he went through and the personal damage to his family. The choices were about who were the best representations of his antagonists, which is why we chose as we did.

By his own efforts man could never gain the true and desired riches.

If I want to gain weight, I can gain weight. If I want to lose weight, I will lose weight. If I want to be fit, I'll be fit.

I love listening to other musicians and seeing what they do to gain their distinctive respective sounds and edge.

If the poet spun for half an hour daily, his poetry would gain in richness.

I'm definitely gaining new fans, and that's the key of any success... gain more love.

To gain unshakable faith in Jesus Christ is to flood your life with brilliant light.

Politicians will pander to special-interest groups eager to gain at the public expense.

They who gain applause and power by pandering to the mistakes, the prejudices and passions of the multitude are the enemies of liberty.

Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have either one.

A private Life is to be preferrd; the Honour and Gain of publick Posts, bearing no proportion with the Comfort of it.

Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?

It's important for me to keep my cardio up, especially for my body type, or I'll gain weight so fast.

I have to plan all my meals and snacks every day, or the wheels come off, and I gain weight.

That the chance of gain is naturally over-valued, we may learn from the universal success of lotteries.

The world's industry must gain incentives to stop polluting and to invest in clean technologies.

Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.

There needs no small degree of address to gain the reputation of benevolence without incurring the expense.

A man's enjoyment of all good things is in exact proportion to the pains he has undergone to gain them.

Once we decided to be in this industry, we have to be ready for everything. You have to be strong but hard working. No pain, no gain.

Business is very personal. For me, everything is extremely personal. With actors, the fact that I write helps, because when you say to an actor "Oh I want you to do it a little bit more ...," without saying what you want more of, then the actor doesn't know what to do. But if you can put into words exactly what you want, then the experience of writing is helpful with that.

I want to be talked about for the films I am doing rather than a party I attended, the dress I wore, and the men I may have met and dated. In any case, by and large I think I have spoken about more for the profession I am in than my personal life. That's the way I like it because frankly, I don't really have a personal life to begin with.

Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you'll love it up here.

The psychic world is a dimensional plane that you can gain access to. It is a dimension of feeling and clear seeing.

The advantages we gain from EU membership clearly and categorically outweigh any disadvantages that come with it.

By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.

What you'll gain is the macro story. You'll get a good command of that. And what you might lose is some of the fun of it.

Listen, O drop, give yourself up without regret, and in exchange gain the Ocean.

There is nothing new to gain. On the other hand a man must lose his ignorance. That is all.

It takes hundreds of good golf shots to gain confidence, but only one bad one to lose it.

It seems the only way to gain attention today is to organize a march and protest something.

At some point, in order to gain his identity, the kid goes "I'm not my dad" or "I'm not my mom."

If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my personal affair. The state has nothing to do with it. The state would look after your secular welfare, health, communications, foreign relations, currency and so on, but not your or my religion. That is everybody's personal concern!

Losing is the price we pay for living. It is also the source of much of our growth and gain.

It's hard to gain respect in fashion, especially if you're coming from social media, so it's been challenging at times.

The sale of souls to gain the whole world is completely voluntary and almost unanimous...but not quite.

When we see the bankruptcy, slavery, and vanity of everything else, we can finally say, ‘To die is gain.’