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"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
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"We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain it only if we proceed with the understanding, the confidence, and the courage which flow from conviction." »Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fourth Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1945
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"The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles. The master class had all to gain and nothing to lose, while the subject class has had nothing to gain and all to lose - especially their lives." »Eugene V. Debs
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"To know that all is well, even if late will come to know it, is at least some gain." »Sophocles
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"Sometimes the best gain is to lose." »George Herbert
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"Who has confidence in himself will gain the confidene of others." »Leib Lazarow
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"I want to gain 1,500 or 2,000 yards, whichever comes first." »George Rogers, Saints running back
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"Any man would be forsworn to gain a kingdom." »Roger Zelazny
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"To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else." »Bernadette
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"Do good to thy Friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him." »Benjamin Franklin
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"Strain every nerve to gain your point." »Cicero
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"For everything you have missed, you have gained something else and for everything you gain, you lose something." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Who escapes duty, avoids a gain." »Theodore Parker
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"You can not gain peace by avoiding life." »Virginia Woolf
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"We gain freedom when we have paid the full price..." »Rabindranath Tagore
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"For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" »Bible, Mark 8:36
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"One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness." »Josh Billings
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"What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose." »Andre Agassi
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"The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear." »Socrates
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"Cease to ask what the morrow will bring forth. And set down as gain each day that Fortune grants." »Horace
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"gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing." »Paul Theroux
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"There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain." »Titus Maccius Plautus
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"We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us; and the more we gain, the more is our desire. The more we see, the more we are capable of seeing." »Maria Mitchell
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"Not until we dare to regard ourselves as a nation, not until we respect ourselves, can we gain the esteem of others, or rather only then will it come of its own accord." »Albert Einstein
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"real politics is such a process of growth through which you gain the bargaining power..." »Muhammad Shakeel
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"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
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"We're trying to show that we're not a little bit of England in America, but a place for Americans to gain a better perspective on their own history." »Louis Booker Wright
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"We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot." »Eleanor Roosevelt
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"If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all." »Michelangelo Buonarroti
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"Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for." »Socrates
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