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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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"History is powerful stuff. One day your world is fine. The next day it's knocked for a metaphysical loop. Was Napoleon really at Waterloo Would that change what I had for breakfast" »Henry Bromel
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"Sometimes the best gain is to lose." »George Herbert
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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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"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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"Who has confidence in himself will gain the confidene of others." »Leib Lazarow
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure." »William James
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"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
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"Success is achieved and maintained by those who TRY, And keep TRYING. Where there is nothing to lose by TRYING, And a great deal to gain if SUCCESSFUL, By all means, TRY. DO IT NOW" »W. Clement Stone
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"The greater difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests." »Epicurus
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"Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain the former vexes you for a time the latter will bring you lasting remorse." »Chilo
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"Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year." »Horace Mann
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"In your clothes avoid too much gaudiness do not value yourself upon an embroidered gown and remember that a reasonable word, or an obliging look, will gain you more respect than all your fine trappings." »Sir George Savile
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"What do you gain, Soviet Union, from this miserable policy Where is your decency Would it be a disgrace for you to give up this battle (On suppression of freedom for Jews in the USSR)" »Golda Meir
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"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
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