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'Tis nobler to lose honor to save the lives of men than it is to gain honor by taking them.

– David Borenstein

Do good to thy Friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him.

– Benjamin Franklin

If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things.

– Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

Since the dawn of time there have been those among us who have been willing to go to extraordinary lengths to gain access to that domain normally reserved for birds, angels, and madmen.

– Steven B. Beach, Paraglider magazine, Vol. 1 No. 2

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

– George Herbert

Who has confidence in himself will gain the confidene of others.

– Leib Lazarow

Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose--not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.

– Annie Sullivan

Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is, but let us consider the two possibilities. If you gain, you gain all if you lose you lose nothing. Hesitate not, then, to wager that He is.

– Blaise Pascal

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

– Socrates

Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of - for credit is like fire when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous task to rekindle it again. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

– Socrates

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.

– Roosevelt, Eleanor

. . . for until that God who rules all the region of the sky. . . has freed you from the fetters of your body, you cannot gain admission here. Men were created with the understanding that they were to look after that sphere called Earth, which you see in the middle of the temple. Minds have been given to them out of the eternal fires you call fixed stars and planets, those spherical solids which, quickened with divine minds, journey through their circuits and orbits with amazing speed....

– Marcus Tullius Cicero

... If weakness may excuse, What Murderer, what Traitor, Parricide, Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it All Wickedness is Weakness That plea therefore With God or Man will gain thee no Remission.

– John Milton

?Tis not for gain, for fame, from fear That righteous men injustice shun, And virtuous men hold virtue dear: An inward voice they seem to hear, Which tells them duty must be done.

– Mahabharata

Any man would be forsworn to gain a kingdom.

– Roger Zelazny

Aristotle was once asked what those who tell lies gain by it. Said he, That when they speak truth they are not believed.

– Laertius Diogenes

Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth. And set down as gain each day that Fortune grants.

– Horace

Entangled in a hundred worldly snares, Self-seeking men, by ignorance deluded, Strive by unrighteous means to pile up riches. Then, in their self-complacency, they say, ?This acquisition I have made to-day, That will I gain to-morrow, so much pelf Is hoarded up already, so much more Remains that I have yet to treasure up. This enemy I have destroyed, him also, And others in their turn, I will despatch. I am a lord; I will enjoy myself; I?m wealthy, noble, strong, successful, happy; I?m absolutely perfect; no one else In all the world can be compared to me. Now will I offer up a sacrifice, Give gifts with lavish hand, and be triumphant.? Such men, befooled by endless vain conceits, Caught in the meshes of the world?s illusion, Immersed in sensuality, descend Down to the foulest hell of unclean spirits.*

– Mahabharata

Even a blockhead may respect inspire, So long as he is suitably attired; A fool may gain esteem among the wise, So long as he has sense to hold his tongue.

– The Hitopadesa

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else and for everything you gain, you lose something.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

For me to live is Christ; to die is gain." 1:21

– Philippians 413 Bible

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

– Bible, Mark 8:36

Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.

– Paul Theroux

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.

– Arnold Bennett

He that is ambitious of fame destroys it. He that increaseth not his knowledge diminishes it. He that uses the crown of learning as an instrument of gain will pass away.

– The Talmud

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