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Thought is the original source of all wealth, all success, all material gain, all great discoveries and inventions, and of all achievement.

You gotta look for the good in the bad, the happy in your sad, the gain in your pain, and what makes you grateful not hateful.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

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.

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.

Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others.

Gain control of your time, and you will gain control of your life.

A man’s enjoyment of all good things is in exact proportion to the pains he has undergone to gain them.

What reinforcement we may gain from hope; if not, what resolution from despair.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

Islam is under obligation to gain power over all nations.

What if we choose not to do the things we are supposed to do? The principal gain is a sense of an authentic act – and an authentic life. It may be a short one, but it is an authentic one, and that’s a lot better than those short lives full of boredom. The principal loss is security. Another is respect from the community. But you gain the respect of another community, the one that is worth having the respect of.

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.

When you ask people, ‘What’s the opposite of fragile?,’ they tend to say robust, resilient, adaptable, solid, strong. That’s not it. The opposite of fragile is something that gains from disorder.

That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.

The spiritual journey does not consist of arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or becomes what he is not. It consists in the dissipation of one’s own ignorance concerning oneself and life, and the gradual growth of that understanding which begins the spiritual awakening. The finding of God is a coming to one’s self.

Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.

Being more mature now, I’ve managed to make peace with my past, as it’s making peace with me. Certainly there’s a mutual gain for reflecting on both phases of my life, and although I consider the here and now perhaps to be more important, there are still many people who appreciate my past ephemeral stages and the lessons they represent.

Politicians will pander to special-interest groups eager to gain at the public expense.

To test a perfect theory with imperfect instruments did not impress the Greek philosophers as a valid way to gain knowledge.

In Japanese society, the competitiveness is within a traditional respecting framework. The Japanese will not compete if that competition involves violence or if it is a zero sum gain – if you win, someone has to lose.

In this metropolis a number of lurking leeches infamously gain subsistence by practicing on the credulity of women.

There’s no gain, without pain.

You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way.

Often young black people are looking towards the alternative economies. They are looking towards the drug economy…. the economies that are going to that apparently will produce some kind of material gain for them.

You must lose everything in order to gain anything.

A good sweat, with the blood punding through my body, makes me feel alive, revitalized. I gain a sense of mastery and assurance. I feel good about myself. Then I can feel good about others.

The charlatan takes very different shapes according to circumstances; but at bottom he is a man who cares nothing about knowledge for its own sake, and only strives to gain the semblance of it that he may use it for his own personal ends, which are always selfish and material.

All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he speaks the truth.

We achieve everything by our efforts alone. Our fate is not decided by an almighty God. We decide our own fate by our actions. You have to gain mystery over yourself. It is not a matter of sitting back and accepting.

Cheerfulness is among the most laudable virtues. It gains you the good will and friendship of others. It blesses those who practice it and those upon whom it is bestowed.

I do think it’s extremely important to acknowledge the gains that were made by the civil rights movement, the black power movement.Institutional transformations happened directly as a result of the movements that people, unnamed people, organized and gave their lives to.

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

When a man is ill,he has only one wish -to gain health,and when he does -then come a hundred wishes and he turns even unhappier than when he was lying sick in bed