Best 583 quotes in «advantage quotes» category

This capacity to go beyond the factors of conditioning is one of the obvious advantages of the human person.

This fear is what is the ruin of us all. And some dominate us; they take advantage of our fear and frighten us still more. Mark this: as long as people are afraid, they will rot like the birches in the marsh. We must grow bold; it is time!

This country provides opportunities. If you don't take advantage of them, it's your own fault.

Those of us living in the state of in between have certain advantages and disadvantages. The advantage of being exposed to a new culture and in my case the freedom that comes with living in the USA. The disadvantages of course being that you will never experience again being a center or quite home anywhere.

Those who have once got an ascendancy, and possessed themselves of all the resources of the nation, their revenues and offices, have immense means for retaining their advantage.

Those who seek education in the paths of duty are always deceived by the illusion that power in the hands of friends is an advantage to them.

Thus I assume that to each according to his threat advantage is not a conception of justice.

Till facts are grouped & called there can be no prediction. The only advantage of discovering laws is to foretell what will happen & to see bearing of scattered facts.

Time is your friend, impulse is your enemy. Take advantage of compound interest and don't be captivated by the siren song of the market.

To succeed in business, you must build a brand and never destroy it. One competitive advantage I had when I ventured into manufacturing was my brand “Dangote,” which I diligently built in the course of my trading commodities.

To this hour, the great science and duty of politics is lowered by the petty leaven of small and personal advantage.

...To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage

To take advantage of unexpected opportunities, we must leave ourselves available.

To take full advantage of computer animation, you have to pay as much attention to the believable as you do the unbelievable.

Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled.

True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.

Truth can never be an enemy to true religion, which appears always to the best advantage when it is most examined.

True socialism is the equalization of all privileges. The power to take advantage of them, - that is another matter.

Truth gives no advantage. It gives no higher status, no power over others; all you get is truth and freedom from the false.

UNIVERSALIST, n. One who forgoes the advantage of a Hell for persons of another faith.

UNFAIR :; Term applied to advantages enjoyed by other people which we tried to cheat them out of and didn't manage.

Ultimately, each transnational firm strives for its own advantage, and is supported in that effort by the state power wherein it resides, or at least where its main shareholders are domiciled.

User habits are a competitive advantage. Products that change customer routines are less susceptible to attacks from other companies.

Unused talents gives you no advantage over someone who has no talent at all.

Virtue, as such, naturally procures considerable advantages to the virtuous.

Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what is unknown to us?

Water is a pioneer which the settler follows, taking advantage of its improvements.

We all, at some point, grow old and acquire other qualities, and these can always be turned to good advantage.

We act like a zero-sum society, when in reality there is a lot of non zero-sum fat to be skimmed off to everyone's mutual advantage.

We easily enough confess in others an advantage of courage, strength, experience, activity, and beauty; but an advantage in judgment we yield to none.

We are praised or blamed, as the one or the other may be expedient, for displaying to advantage our power of discernment.

We have an amazing advantage right now in that we have developed technology that is so sexy, so engaging for kids.

We have an army far better adapted to attack than to defend. Let us fight at advantage before we are forced to fight at disadvantage.

We need to move from comparative advantage to perpetual advantage.

Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.

We may with advantage at times forget what we know.

We need to take advantage of the opportunity we have now to create a vision and become great.

We're being taken advantage of because we have leaders who are incompetent. They don't even know. When I went out and told them you know in their trade deal they didn't even discuss the devaluation, they didn't even discuss it. At least they started discussing it, only because of me.

We serve a gracious Master who knows how to overrule even our mistakes to his glory and our own advantage.

We sometimes feel that if a person tromps over us after we've said no, then we must not have been clear. We can get caught in the trap of explaining again and again, meanwhile letting the other person take advantage of us.

We've been in that situation where you're just so happy to be doing what you love to do that you get taken advantage of.

Whatever advantage we snatch beyond a certain portion allotted us by at nature, is like money spent before it is due, which, at the time of regular payment, will be missed and regretted.

We've been able to access deals that under our former relationship with Disney - with tax advantages and strategic partners - that we just weren't able to do.

We vary greatly in the natural advantages that we've been given. The world's not fair

Whatever is goode in its kinde ought to be preserv'd in respect for antiquity, as well as our present advantage, for destruction can be profitable to none but such as live by it.

Whatever may be our condition in life, it is better to lay hold of its advantages than to count its evils.

Whatever goes wrong can be used to your advantage, providing it goes wrong enough.

What I learned at Oxford has been used to great advantage throughout my business career.

When do you manipulate others for your own advantage? When I notice myself doing it, usually it is when I am feeling insecure.

What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less.