You gain nothing by becoming cowards.
We rejoice in all the Savior has done for us. He has made it possible for each of us to gain our salvation and exaltation.
The urge to gain release from tension by action is a precipitating cause of war.
Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin.
No one gains from fair employment law and legislation if there is no employment to be had.
People have no human rights, only the rights that they can gain on the labour market. Above all, wealth and power have to be protected.
I felt sure we could gain the upper hand by putting ourselves in the mindset of the Incas.
You can achieve great economic gains by solving social problems.
In real estate you can avoid ever having to pay a capital gains tax, decade after decade, century after century. When you sell a property and make a capital gain, you simply turn around and buy a new property. The gain is not taxed. It's called "preserving your capital investment" - which goes up and up in value with each transaction.
We know that material things don't offer contentment, but we still buy more-more of the props and gadgets our culture tells us we must have in order to be happy and "happening. " Our addiction to consumption distracts us from seeing that we are disconnected from ourselves, from our truth and from one another. Any euphoria we gain from our material gains is fleeting at best.
Lampis the ship owner, on being asked how he acquired his great wealth, replied, My great wealth was acquired with no difficulty, but my small wealth, my first gains, with much labor.
Not every defeat of authority is a gain for individual freedom, nor every judicial rescue of a convict a victory for liberty.
A man's own heart must ever be given to gain that of another.
The victory one would gain after a whole life of work and effort is better than one that is gained sooner.
The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital. . . the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.
It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain
We gain no easier advantage than by relentlessly pursuing our goal while others pursue an advantage.
Women are the most charitable creatures, and the most troublesome. He who shuns women passes up the trouble, but also the benefits. He who puts up with them gains the benefits, but also the trouble. As the saying goes, there's no honey without bees.
Cheerfulness is among the most laudable virtues. It gains you the good will and friendship of others. It blesses those who practice it and those upon whom it is bestowed.
You gain power by pretending to be weak.
