Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your own principles.
Furthermore, and a point I really want to make very strongly, is that this is the first Administration since Herbert Hoover not to create a net gain in jobs in the course of its Administration.
Being in a band is always a compromise. Provided that the balance is good, what you lose in compromise, you gain by collaboration.
If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man, you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness.
By his own efforts man could never gain the true and desired riches.
Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.
It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct.
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.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'
Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.
There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.
After believing in promises made and never fulfilled by Labour, people have become increasingly disenchanted with the process assuming that all politicians will say anything to gain power, and then never follow through.
I don't mean that if you're a Christian, walking close to God, you will immediately gain celebrity. you may fail as an artist, because you may not have what the public want at that time, and you have to be prepared for that.
Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups.
If you just stop and think, baby, honey, love is a funny thing. Whatever you put in, that's what you expect to gain.