Quotes
Quotes about Gain
The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day. Now spurs the lated traveller apace To gain the timely inn, and near approaches The subject of our watch.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
But the devil when he purports any evil against man, first perverts his mind. [Lat., At daemon, homini quum struit aliquid malum, Pervertit illi primitus mentem suam.]
If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.
Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.
If we would only testify to the truth as we see it, it would turn out that there are hundreds, thousands, even millions of other people just as we are, who see the truth as we do...and are only waiting, again as we are, for someone to proclaim it. The Kingdom of God is within you.
That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.
It is natural to man to indulge in the illusion of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of the siren, till she transforms us into beasts.
Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow.'.
To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else. -Bernadette Devlin.
Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.
I will ask him for my place again: he shall tell me I am a drunkard! Had I as many mouths as Hydra, such an answer would stop them all. To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast! O strange! Every inordinate cup is unblest, and the ingredient is a devil.
I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
I'm saying: to be continued, until we meet again. Meanwhile, keep on listening and tapping your feet.
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
He that will lose his friend for a jest, deserves to die a beggar by the bargain.
Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls; Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.
If you've heard this story before, don't stop me, because I'd like to hear it again.
There's a hope for every woe, And a balm for every pain, But the first joys of our heart Come never back again!
Therefore I say again I utterly abhor, yea, from my soul Refuse you for my judge, whom yet once more I hold my most malicious for and think not At all a friend to truth.
Woe to him, . . . who has no court of appeal against the world's judgment.
There written all Black as the damning drops that fall From the denouncing Angel's pen, Ere Mercy weeps them out again.
It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
