Gains Quotes

• The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

  Epictetus

  Positive, Encouraging, Uplifting

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  The end of labor is to gain leisure.

  Aristotle

  Philosophy, Work, Tunnels

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

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Running, Fear, Cancer

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• No gains without pains.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Pain, Conservative, Without Pain

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”, p.249

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• 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.

  Barack Obama

  Family, Years, Payroll Tax

  Speech in Dover, New Hampshire, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. September 12, 2008.

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• He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

  Jim Elliot

  Inspirational, Motivational, Christian

  "Blessed are the Persecuted". Sermon by Pastor Jason Lim, gospellight.sg. July 09, 2017.

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• One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Motivational, Strength, Stress

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• The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.

  David Bohm

  Learning, Knowledge, Thinking

  New Scientist (p. 42), February 1993.

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• Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

  George S. Patton

  Leadership, War, Men

  Cavalry Journal, September 1933.

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• All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.

  Herodotus

  Inspirational, Business, Men

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• 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

  Strength, Chains That Bind, Broken

  "A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern" by Tryon Edwards, New York, Cassell publishing company, (p. 212), 1891.

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• It is now common knowledge that the average American gains 7 pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day.

  Marilu Henner

  Thanksgiving, New Year, Average

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• He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

  Adolf Hitler

  Rise To Power, Individual Happiness, Church Ministry

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• There is something akin to freedom in having a lover who has no control over you, except that which he gains by kindness and attachment.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Kindness, Attachment, Slave Girl

  Harriet Ann Jacobs, Lydia Maria Child (2011). “The Deeper Wrong: Or, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.85, Cambridge University Press

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• One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

  War, Victory, Use

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• Mr. Obama has an ingenious approach to job losses: He describes them as job gains.

  Karl Rove

  Jobs, Loss, Usa

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• Even now, after whatever gains feminism has made in involving fathers in the rearing of their children, I still think virtually all of us spend the most formative years of our lives very much in the presence of women

  Reynolds Price

  Children, Father, Thinking

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• I have kept a steady focus on restoring public faith in our state government since taking office July 1. Now it is time to make even bigger and bolder gains through legislative action.

  Jodi Rell

  Government, July, Office

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• Legislation to create a new 10 percent tax bracket, reduce the marriage penalty, cut the tax rate on dividends and capital gains, and increase the child tax credit have been essential elements in this economic expansion.

  Roger Wicker

  Marriage, Children, Cutting

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• In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

  Laurence Sterne

  Strength, Wisdom, Loneliness

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• Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men.

  George S. Patton

  Military, War, 4th Of July

  "Cavalry Journal", September 1933.

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• We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Temptation, Tempted

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.298, Library of America

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• Reason gains all people by compelling none.

  Aaron Hill

  People, Reason, Compelling

  "Alzira: A Tragedy". Play by Aaron Hill, 1736.

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• There's a victory and defeat-the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats-which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

  Plato

  Character, Responsibility, Men

  Plato (2008). “Laws”, p.11, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The reason why many fail in battle is because they wait until the hour of battle. The reason why others succeed is because they have gained their victory on their knees long before the battle came. Anticipate your battles; fight them on your knees before temptation comes, and you will always have victory.

  R. A. Torrey

  Motivational, Success, Christian

  R. A. Torrey, Edward D. Andrews (2016). “CHRISTIAN LIVING: How to Succeed in the Christian Life [Updated and Expanded]”, p.259, Christian Publishing House

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