(964 quotes found)
“By persisting in your path, though you forfeit the little, you gain the great.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.”
Arthur Helps
“Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.”
Satchel Paige
“There would be no advantage to be gained by sowing a field of wheat if the harvest did not return more than was sown.”
Napoleon Hill
“Interruptions can be viewed as sources of irritation or opportunities for service, as moments lost or experience gained, as time wasted or horizons widened. They can annoy us or enrich us, get under our skin or give us a shot in the arm. Monopolize our minutes or spice our schedules, depending on our attitude toward them.”
William Arthur Ward
“Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.”
Benjamin Franklin
“There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.”
Confucius
“If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask!”
W. Clement Stone
“Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.”
William Penn
“On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation”
Charles Darwin