Best 442 quotes in «position quotes» category

Honor is infinitely more valuable than positions of honor.

How gracious are the gods in bestowing high positions; and how reluctant are they to insure them when given.

I always keep myself in a position of being a student.

I always promised myself that if I was in position to be successful, I wouldn't take it for granted, because I know in the past how hard I've worked.

I am a better hitter with runners in scoring position.

I am convinced that he loved Eva [Braun] and there is absolutely no question of her complete adoration of him. He was away all the time because his position demanded it. She couldn't travel with him because their relationship was supposed to be secret.

I am defining leadership in terms of the role, not the position.

I am deeply honored to have been nominated for a position on the Supreme Court. And I an humbled to have been nominated for the seat that is now held by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.

I am in that glorious position where I can redesign and re-package my own work.

I am not looking for board positions, I am looking for good governance.

I am in the position of judging people by the best they've ever done rather than the worst.

I am not, and never have been, a man of the right. My position was on the left and is now in the centre of politics.

I am standing for NSW Super 12 coaching position. NSW great. Queensland bad.

I am so happy that I didn’t go to school and I didn’t have anyone to tell me how to position my fingers on the piano correctly.

I am under no illusions. My position, no matter how clearly stated, is likely to be misunderstood.

I believe in maximum flexibility, so I reserve the right to change my position on any subject when the external environment relating to any topic changes too.

I did not criticize the Central Bank's position.

I can think of a lot of words to describe Senator Kerry's position on Iraq; "consistent" is not one of them.

I consider myself fortunate that I am in the position to decide which is the most effective way to tell our stories.

I didn't lose. I got second. That's still winning. How could I be unhappy with second place? There are a million people who would love to be in my position.

I can tell you this: If I'm ever in a position to call the shots, I'm not going to rush to send somebody else's kids into a war.

'I don't know' is my favorite position.

I don't get asked a lot of questions about who is the best political candidate or what my position is on what the Senate is about to do.

I do not believe that the government is in any position to say exactly how every single business and every single activity shall reach those performances.

I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.

I don't know how you overcome the dearth of scientists in the government positions.

I don't profess to be an expert on anything, or have the memory for who ran in 1952. I am an informed American citizen, that's my position.

I don't like that particular word 'shocking.' I'm looking for the unexpected. I'm looking for things I've never seen before … I was in a position to take those pictures. I felt an obligation to do them.

I don’t think Ed Reed has to take a back seat to anybody who ever played the position. ANYBODY.

I don't think we're ever going to be in a position where we can say this is the template, this is the checklist, that must be met [for intervention].

I expect it is very possible that I would make as good a President as a great many men who are talked of for that position.

If I were in a position to announce a public competition to coin a new word, I would do so right now.

If A were not allowed his better position, B would be even worse off than he is.

If I am ever in the position where I wish to seduce someone I will simply assure her it’s better than rats.

If I represent the world as it is as harmonious, that's a political position.

If someone comes to you and asks for help, and you can help them, you're supposed to help them. Why wouldn't you? You have been put in the position somehow to be able to help this person.

If one has set for himself the position that his painting shall not misconstrue his personal mode of thinking, then he must be rather alert to just what he does think.

If Pakistan feels Indian positions are pre-conditions, then there will be no talks.

If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position.

If we ask, for instance, whether the position of the electron remains the same, we must say 'no'; if we ask whether the electron's position changes with time, we must say 'no'; if we ask whether the electron is at rest, we must say 'no'; if we ask whether it is in motion, we must say 'no'.

I have stayed in the same position where you left me, so that you can find me again.

I guess I started to realize that being an agnostic was such a wimpy position.

If you put a woman in a man's position, she will be more efficient, but no more kind.

If youve got five cameras, youre making sure that youre in the right position for each one of the cameras.

I have a position of indirect respect and oblique power.

I have the most conservative position.

I have to say, that I am delighted that Secretary [Hillary] Clinton month after month after month seems to be adopting more and more of the positions that we have advocated.

I hope when my time as Liverpool manager is over, I'm remembered as someone who improved the team and left the club in a better position than I inherited it.

I kind of like the position of being the fair-haired savior of my mother

I lay down the Position, That whatever a Conscience well directed allows us to do for the Advancement of Truth, an erroneous Conscience will warrant for advancing a suppos'd Truth.