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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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"Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do." »Mencius
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"My vigor, vitality, and cheek repel me. I am the kind of woman I would run from." »Nancy Astor
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"To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - and to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love." »Karl von Bonstetten
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"Iron rusts from disue; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind." »Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks
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"Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness." »Joseph Addison
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"From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor." »Joseph Addison
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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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"They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor." »Eric Hoffer
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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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"To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else." »Bernadette
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"Who has confidence in himself will gain the confidene of others." »Leib Lazarow
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"Any man would be forsworn to gain a kingdom." »Roger Zelazny
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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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"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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"Strain every nerve to gain your point." »Cicero
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"You can not gain peace by avoiding life." »Virginia Woolf
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"Who escapes duty, avoids a gain." »Theodore Parker
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"Do good to thy Friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him." »Benjamin Franklin
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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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"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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"We gain freedom when we have paid the full price..." »Rabindranath Tagore
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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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"There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain." »Titus Maccius Plautus
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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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"real politics is such a process of growth through which you gain the bargaining power..." »Muhammad Shakeel
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