Possessed with a full confidence of the certain success which British valor must gain over such enemies, I have led you up these steep and dangerous rocks, only solicitous to show you the foe within your reach.
James Wolfe

Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.
Chilon

Redistricting is a deeply political process, with incumbents actively seeking to minimize the risk to themselves (via bipartisan gerrymanders) or to gain additional seats for their party (via partisan gerrymanders).
Thomas E. Mann

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

Religion is never the problem; it's the people who use it to gain power.
Julian Casablancas

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
Horace Mann

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

Since he is of no use anymore, there is no gain if he lives and no loss if he dies.
Pol Pot

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.
Epicurus

So for us any gain we had in election, one vote that we got, was a win.
Imran Khan

So if one, or two, or a handful of guys sells drugs for their own personal gain and profit who just so happens to be a member of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club, we want that same consideration.
Chuck Zito

So our problem is not Labour, it is us, is making us attractive enough to gain disillusioned Labour support and to compete effectively with the Lib Dems for those loose votes.
Francis Maude

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.
George Herbert

Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Danny Thomas

Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your soul. Was it worth it?
Billy Graham

Swaziland is a small part of south-east Africa, the last country in the continent to gain its independence.
Richard Grant

Taking it in its wider and generic application, I understand faith to be the supplement of sense; or, to change the phrase, all knowledge which comes not to us through our senses we gain by faith in others.
Matthew Simpson

Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain.
Jessica Savitch

The American economic, political, and social organization has given to its citizens the benefits of material prosperity, political liberty, and a wholesome natural equality; and this achievement is a gain, not only to Americans, but to the world and to civilization.
Herbert Croly

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