Best 442 quotes in «position quotes» category

A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.

Are decent people in positions of leadership eternally condemned to Calvary?

As usual, in every scheme that worsens the position of the poor, it is the poor who are invoked as beneficiaries.

As soon as you set yourself up in the position of transferring paint from one place to another, your whole culture invades you. It tells you all about the history of art.

At first it was simply liking, Nastenka, but now, now ! I am just in the same position as you were when you went to him with your bundle. In a worse position than you, Nastenka,because he cared for no one else as you do.

At the same time, [princess Margaret] had a fragility and an insecurity in who she was and her position, because her sister had always got the education ever since David [Edward VIII] abdicated.

Bashing the elite is what I'm all about in my music because they absolutely don't deserve the privileged position that they're in, and we're seeing this around the globe right now.

Because a truly skeptical position would be a very uncertain one.

As someone who was born in Israel, you're put in a position of defending Israel because you know how much is at stake.

Brian Eno developed systems to keep himself on edge and to keep himself in a position where he's generating ideas.

Center is a very tough position to play.

Chart positions aren't the be all and end all.

Character - not wealth, power, or position - is the supreme word.

Chart positions are for people with manbags who get to work at 11 A.M. because they've been at a digital meeting.

China is the largest and most ancient of Asiatic countries, but it is not for us boastfully to talk of her right to a position of 'leadership' among those countries.

Donald Trump has been someone who has basically taken every position that Vladimir Putin has.

Consider how Jesus came from a position of glory and consistently reached out to the lowly.

Donald Trump is not softening his position on immigration.

Do not always be thinking of attack! Moves that safeguard your position are often far more prudent.

Either Mitt Romney, through his own words and his own signature, was misrepresenting his position at Bain to the SEC, which is a felony, or he was misrepresenting his position at Bain to the American people...

Before you can have great employees you have to put them in a position to create their own future.

Everyone in a position of authority is hysterical, and everyone else is pretending to be asleep.

Everybody brings their personality to any position, and that's true for presidents like anyone else.

Extremism is so easy. You've got your position, and that's it. It doesn't take much thought. And when you go far enough to the right you meet the same idiots coming around from the left.

Even though [Donald] Trump is reported to not read very much and to have a limited range of experience, he is often certain that he is right and boldly asserts the correctness of his positions.

Everyone's life is a page in the human history irrespective of the position he or she holds or the work he or she performs.

Everything Mengistu has done since 1977 has been to place himself in a position of uncontestable power. Neither Haile Selassie nor any of the previous emperors had this insatiable thirst for power.

For many years, I did my best to report on the issues of the day in as objective a manner as possible. When I had my own strong opinions, as I often did, I tried not to communicate them to my audience. Now, however, my circumstances are different. I am in a position to speak my mind. And that is what I propose to do.

From my subjective position, there was no honeymoon.

Geoffrey [Howe] and I were mates, and he disagreed with [ Margaret Thatcher] position. So, we cooperated surreptitiously.

Fundamentally, [prayer] is a position, a placement of oneself.

Greece's position in Europe will not be put in doubt.

Happiness doesn't necessarily lie in material things. You just have to put yourself in a position to be happy. If you can do what you love for a living, that's a good start.

For as long as one has no further point of reference, apart from the position of the maximum, the wavelength thus remains uncertain by an integral factor.

Get your personal needs met, once and for all; if you have unmet needs, you'll attract others in the same position.

Governor is not the position to have in Oklahoma. It is the head coach of Oklahoma or Oklahoma State or Tulsa.

Having to know the answers puts in terrible positions from which to learn.

Honor is infinitely more valuable than positions of honor.

He who is required by the necessity of his position to speak the highest things is compelled by the same necessity to exemplify the highest things.

Have empathy, gratitude and respect for every position in the company.

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

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

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

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