You choose how to feel and act every moment of every day. The moment you accept this responsibility completely, you gain total control over your life.
I have always been haunted by the feeling that the painter has much to gain from making use of the forces that tend to work against his action
Personally, I feel that it is the most contemptible thing for a politician to seek personal gains from politics.
The advantages we gain from EU membership clearly and categorically outweigh any disadvantages that come with it.
We must be laid like a brand in the fire. . . if we would gain immortal youth.
Love, if it be love indeed, asks no permission as to where it shall seek vantage ground or gain its victory - it is of all powers the most unfettered and the one which takes the widest course of largest liberty.
Success isn't always about 'greatness'. It's about consistency. Consistent hard work gains success. Greatness will come.
There's no gain, without pain.
One of the key elements of human behavior is, humans have a greater fear of loss than enjoyment of success. All the academic studies will show you that the fear of loss of capital is far greater than the enjoyment of gains.
You must accept the fact that there is no help but self-help. I cannot tell you how to gain freedom since freedom exists within you.
We gain no wisdom by imposing our way on others.
Lose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong.
For however much the state may gain by not having to fund roads on its own, society would lose in aggregate if the open commons of transportation were lost.
Applied properly, it [logic] can overcome any lack of wisdom, which one only gains through age and experience.
And I guess I realized at that moment that I really did love her. Because there was nothing to gain, and that didn't matter.
A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied, he is content.
To make any gain some outlay is necessary.
If there is a Way involving the spirit of not being defeated, to help oneself and gain honour, it is the Way of Strategy.
Each time we embrace someone warmly, we gain an extra day of life.
It may be possible through detachment, to gain knowledge that is 'useful;' but only through participation is it possible to gain the knowledge that is helpful.