Gain Quotes - page 2

The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain. (Thomas Jefferson)
We mustn't complain too much of being comedians -- it's an honorable profession. If only we could be good ones the world might gain at least a sense of style. We have failed -- that's all. We are bad comedians, we aren't bad men. View quote
Graham Greene
We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can be no possible economic gain for any side. Win or lose, there is nothing but waste and destruction. View quote
Lester B. Pearson
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain. View quote
Niccolò Machiavelli
But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken. View quote
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. View quote
Epictetus
The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding. View quote
Joseph Addison
We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon and to prepare for new journeys to the worlds beyond our own. View quote
George W. Bush
Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal. View quote
E. O. Wilson
Every joy is gain, and gain is gain, however small. View quote
Robert Browning
For I say, this is death and the sole death, When a man's loss comes to him from his gain, Darkness from light, from knowledge ignorance, And lack of love from love made manifest. (Robert Browning)
The dog, to gain his private ends, Went mad, and bit the man. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life. View quote
Tom Stoppard
Everyone here would die for the sake of truth. Everyone here lies constantly for the tiniest chance of personal gain. This is what it means to be a scientist. View quote
Greg Egan
The fact that the president was willing to reveal classified information for political gain and put the interests of his political party ahead of America's security shows that he can no longer be trusted to keep America safe. View quote
Howard Dean
Who, doomed to go in company with Pain And Fear and Bloodshed,miserable train Turns his necessity to glorious gain. View quote
William Wordsworth
We gain the strength of the temptation we resist. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
So, when a raging fever burns, We shift from side to side by turns And 't is a poor relief we gain To change the place, but keep the pain. View quote
Isaac Watts
To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws. View quote
Eric Hoffer
For every apparent gain, in short, we now observe a balancing danger. This is the world we have created. View quote
Mark Kingwell
It is for man to establish the reign of liberty in the midst of the world of the given. To gain the supreme victory, it is necessary, for one thing, that by and through their natural differentiation men and women unequivocally affirm their brotherhood. (Simone de Beauvoir)
Weep for me, whoever has charity, truth and justice I did not come on this voyage for gain, honor or wealth, that is certain for then the hope of all such things was dead. I came to Your Highnesses with honest purpose and sincere zeal and I do not lie. I humbly beseech Your Highnesses that, if it please God to remove me hence, you will help me to go to Rome and on other pilgrimages. View quote
Christopher Columbus
It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community. View quote
Thorstein Veblen
What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose. View quote
Andre Agassi
Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, Like other farmers, flourish and complain. View quote
George Crabbe