To gain what is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.
Bernadette Devlin

To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.
Aeschylus

To play well you must feel tranquil and at peace. I have never been troubled by nerves in golf because I felt I had nothing to lose and everything to gain.
Harry Vardon

To say that an artist sells out means that an artist is making a conscious choice to compromise his music, to to weaken his music for the sake of commercial gain.
Ken Burns

Today, unless women gain jobs and athletic scholarships commensurate with their percentage of the population, feminists scream discrimination.
Marvin Olasky

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
Robert Kennedy

Unfortunately, in collective bargaining one party or the other too often tries to gain an advantage - a bargain, like buying something in a store for less than it is worth.
Charles E. Wilson

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

Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.
John Henry Newman

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
Napoleon Hill

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.
Rabindranath Tagore

We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.
Charles Lamb

We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.
Jacob Bronowski

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.
Eleanor Roosevelt

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.
Maria Mitchell

We have a lot to gain through furthering stem cell research, but medical breakthroughs should be fundamentally about saving, not destroying, human life. Therefore, I support stem cell research that does not destroy the embryo.
Michael Steele

We have never really had absolute privacy with our records or our electronic communications - government agencies have always been able to gain access with appropriate court orders.
Dorothy Denning

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.
Lester B. Pearson

We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government is becoming, and for some decent chance of stopping a Dinosaur Killer asteroid.
Larry Niven