Gain Quotes

Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.
Tom Landry

Leadership, Confidence, Control

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

Freedom, Full, Paid

Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
Thomas Carlyle

Life, True, Question

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
William James

Happiness, Men, Keep

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.
Robert Baden-Powell

Talk, Listening, Occupation

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

Reputation, Greater, Storms

Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
Walt Whitman

Good, Lost, Same

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Pain, Sacrifice, Order

You must continue to gain expertise, but avoid thinking like an expert.
Denis Waitley

Thinking, Avoid, Continue

One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
Josh Billings

Greatest, Someone, Him

On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.
Charles Darwin

Scientific, View, Ordinary

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
Alexander Pope

Best, End, Find

Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.
Euripides

Ignorance, Clear

When you have your heart broken for the first time, you gain depth.
Sienna Miller

Time, Heart, Broken

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.
Horace

Tomorrow, Happen, Everyday

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.
Epicurus

Reputation, Storms, Pilots

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
Langston Hughes

Beauty, Happiness, Dying

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.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

Time, Truth, Friends

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.
Saint Teresa of Avila

Love, May, Small

Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
Alexander Pope

Best, Few, Madness

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

Men, Nothing, Another

Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.
Paul Theroux

Reputation, Asked, Modest

One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.
Pedro Calderon de la Barca

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.
Joseph Addison

Nature, Good, Truth

No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.
Fernando Pessoa

Stupidity, Acceptance, Idea

Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose - not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.
Ben Stein

Time, Remember, Keep

Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
William Hazlitt

Love, Fear, Through

Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?
Sophocles

Lives, Dying, Among

Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.
Sophocles

Life, Money, Long

The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Rapture, Pursuing, Prize

Share with your Friends

Everyone likes a good quote - don't forget to share.

Related Definition

Gain Definition

Aristotle

Popular Topics

Friendship Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

Get Social with BrainyQuote

BrainyQuote Desktop

BrainyQuote Mobile

Site

Quote of the Day

Social

BQ on Pinterest

Syndication

Funny Quote Feed

Love Quote Feed

Nature Quote Feed

About Us