Quotes with gains

  • One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.
  • The ceiling on taxation of capital gains reflects the national belief that speculation is a more worthwhile way to make a living than work.
  • He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.

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  • Adolf Hitler He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.
    Adolf Hitler
    German politician (1889 - 1945)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling He who faces no calamity gains no courage.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Benjamin Franklin There are no gains without pains.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Bill Hybels A lot of spiritual gains come through pain, hurt, struggle, confusion and disappointment.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side.
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    American Author (1906 - 2001)
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  • I Ching A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.
    I Ching
    Chinese classical text (Book of Changes)
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  • Herodotus All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.
    Herodotus
    Greek historian (484 - 425)
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  • Tryon Edwards Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.
    Tryon Edwards
    American theologian (1809 - 1894)
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  • Andrew Jackson Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and its conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Barry Ritholtz Gains in corporate profits depend in large part on accelerating global economic growth.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Horace He gains everyone's approval who mixes the pleasant with the useful.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Lao-Tzu He who gains a victory over other men is strong; but he who gains a victory over himself is all powerful.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Barack Obama I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.
    As quoted in "Accountable: Making America as Good as Its Promise", Tavis Smiley, Simon and Schuster, 2009, p. 198
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Robert Herrick If a little labor, little are our gains. Man's fortunes are according to his pains.
    Robert Herrick
    English lyric poet and cleric (1591 - 1674)
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  • Samuel Butler It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Barbara Jordan Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • Ayn Rand Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Erich Fromm Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains - except kill it.
    Erich Fromm
    German - American philosopher and psychologist (1900 - 1980)
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  • Novalis My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
    Novalis
    German poet and writer (ps. van Georg van Hardenberg) (1772 - 1801)
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