Gain Quotes

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain. (Plato)
[I would] rather discover one cause than gain the kingdom of Persia. View quote
Democritus
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold... View quote
Bob Marley
One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness. View quote
Josh Billings
Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few. View quote
Alexander Pope
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year. View quote
Horace Mann
Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning. View quote
Erwin Rommel
The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain. View quote
Susan B. Anthony
Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live. View quote
Robert F. Kennedy
Lend money to an enemy, and thou will gain him, to a friend and thou will lose him. (Benjamin Franklin)
First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can. View quote
Horatio Nelson
Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain. View quote
Euripides
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love. View quote
William Hazlitt
Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists. View quote
Blaise Pascal
Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
I believe the main solution is to gain the trust of Europe and America and to remove their concerns over the peaceful nature of our nuclear industry and to assure them that there will never be a diversion to military use. View quote
Hashemi Rafsanjani
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose. View quote
Jim Elliot
Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance. (Václav Havel)
Party is the madness of many for the gain of a few. View quote
Jonathan Swift
If we are faithful to GOD in little things, we shall gain experience and strength that will be helpful to us in the more serious trials of life. View quote
James Hudson Taylor
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gentlemen, I take it we are all in complete agreement on the decision here. Then, I propose we postpone further discussion of this matter until the next meeting to give ourselves time to develop disagreement, and perhaps gain some understanding of what the decision is all about. View quote
Alfred P. Sloan