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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

Strength, Courage, Experience

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.'
Eleanor Roosevelt

Strength, Courage, Experience

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
Socrates

Time, Men, Yourself

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.
Thomas Jefferson

Government, Liberty, Progress

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
Blaise Pascal

Faith, Truth, Wise

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

Fool, Cannot, Keep

No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.
Ronald Reagan

Mother, Sacrifice, Her

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everything, Else, Lose

Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel.
Benjamin Franklin

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
Benjamin Franklin

Time, Thou, Thy

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Strength, Temptation, Resist

The end of labor is to gain leisure.
Aristotle

End, Labor, Leisure

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
George Bernard Shaw

Life, Heart, Two

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
Socrates

Good, Desire, Reputation

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
Robert Kennedy

Wisdom, Live, Living

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
Plato

Men, Wisdom, Honor

If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.
Saint Augustine

Judge, Friend, Two

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
Napoleon Hill

War, Desire, Individual

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

Good, Conscience, Silent

You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.
Barack Obama

Life, Education, Money

If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.
Blaise Pascal

Nothing, Lose, Exists

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Appreciate, Noble, Torn

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.
Thomas Merton

Important, Able, Moon

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
Niccolo Machiavelli

May, Greedy, General

Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your soul. Was it worth it?
Billy Graham

Lost, Everything, Soul

Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.
Milton Friedman

Another, Economic, Party

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?
Jesus Christ

Soul, Whole, Shall

Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.
Tom Landry

Leadership, Confidence, Control

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

Happiness, Men, Keep

Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.
Erwin Rommel

Fight, Winning, Battle

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