A villain to me is someone who actively seeks to hurt someone or does things for his own gain.
A business of high principle attracts high-caliber people more easily, thereby gaining a basic competitive and profit edge.
It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost and at any risk to the rest of the community.
Gaining my education from practical experience certainly benefited me. If I had gone on to be a lawyer, my life wouldn't have been anywhere near as interesting.
Just as long as something is gained, a lesson is learned. I do like those. The more quiet victories are always great.
It is the responsibility of Afghanistan's new government to gain better control over the country's administration and to resolutely fight the drug trade and corruption.
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.
Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.
When we worship, we ascend, when we ascend we gain revelation from God.
In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them.
One of the ways I think I gain fodder for characters is by watching people.
You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do.
Depriving yourself will, ironically enough, lead to rebelling and weight gain.
By his own efforts man could never gain the true and desired riches.
My object is to stop the guy with the ball before he gains another inch.
To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.
You learn so much from competition you gain confidence every time you have to step up and perform.
An house is of a double nature, viz., one, wherein it is a way and means of expence, the other as it is an instrument and tool of gain.
I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.
It is this conception of the unity of the human career which is perhaps the greatest achievement of historical study, since it gained a place analogous to that of natural science.
A true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.
