Best 583 quotes in «advantage quotes» category

Sometimes we want to believe something so badly that we allow ourselves to be taken advantage of.

Start taking advantage of the wealth of time

Surprise is sometimes the best advantage a warrior can have.

Suspense was an excellent tool for keeping powerful people off balance. It gave one bargaining power.

Taking the wrong advantage of one's decency, modesty, and tolerance shows not only the meanness, whereas that, also demonstrates the proof and the sign of crime.

That's like being a hockey player born on January I.

The average adult hates being treated like a child, unless it suits them.

The clever people likes foolish because they knows how to take advantage of their foolishness.

The condition and characteristic of an uninstructed person is this: he never expects from himself profit (advantage) nor harm, but from externals. The condition and characteristic of a philosopher is this: he expects all advantage and all harm from himself.

The most potent recreational activity is when we sit back and exercise our minds with great and exciting books.

The most important thing is for us to use the advantage we have properly and our success will be matchless

The need for gain, and advantage over others, is one of the chief driving forces behind all human misery.

The only care a soldier must have in war is to let the fleeting advantage of the enemy take the confidence of his inner field.

The pleasure or the benefit that the object of our deed derives from it is every now and then greater or even more important than the one we derive from the deed.

There are big advantages of living for God, therefore try to spend every minute you have walking with Him, listening to Him and learning of His wisdom

[There is an] immense advantage to be gained by ample space and appropriate surroundings in aiding the formation of a just idea of the beauty and interest of each specimen... Nothing detracts so much from the enjoyment ... from a visit to a museum as the overcrowding of the specimens exhibited.

Those who are called Christ’s have a priceless advantage

Though at opposite ends of our country, Maine and Hawaii are, other than climate, much alike. Places where you say who you are, be who you are, keep your word, and don't cheat or lie to take advantage of each other. Where you protect other folks because they are your tribe.

Understanding that time is limited helps to motivate the use of each moment to the best advantage to achieve things of value.

Water shrinks wool, urgency shrinks time. Shrinkage may be an advantage or the reverse, according to expectation.

We need not know the how and the why to profit from knowing the that.

What is essential is to suddenly make a move totally unexpected by the opponent, pick up on the advantage of fright, and seize the victory right then and there.

We sometimes benefit way more from being lied to than the person lying to us.

What luck has gave you will probably leave you.

Whenever she saw in others an advantage, however trivial, which she herself lacked, she would persuade herself that it was no advantage at all, but a drawback, and would pity so as not to have to envy them.

When you look through a window you gasp at the beautiful tree in the backyard or the magical sunrise coming over the horizon, No one looks at a window and is taken away by the complexity of the transparency of millions of atoms joined together to form, from our perception of a crystal clear yet structural opening to the exterior, the same is with life, if you spend your whole life being a medium to enable others then you will be nothing but a sheet of glass, overused, underappreciated, and fragile to opportunity

You can take a thing when no one's looking. But defending it, even with all the advantage on your side, is no easy task,' Madoc told her with a laugh. She looked up to find him offering her a hand. 'Power is much easier to acquire than it is to hold on to.

You should love yourself to an extent where you cannot let anyone take advantage of you, no matter who they are.

You want to achieve your dreams early, right? I know of only one back door; that's HARDWORK. Only few people use that entrance so the advantage is that there is no or less traffic there!

Accidents did not just happen. From time to time they were carefully plotted, calculated, and arranged to one’s advantage-all, of course, under the cloak of happenstance.

A child should have every advantage - including those taught by disadvantage.

Acting serves as the quintessential social lubricant and a device for protecting our interests and gaining advantage in every aspect of life.

Advantage is a better soldier than rashness.

Advantage comes not from the spectacular or the technical. Advantage comes from a persistent seeking of the mundane edge.

Advertising doesn't create a product advantage. It can only convey it.

A great advantage I had when I started The Body Shop was that I had never been to business school.

A grapefruit is just a lemon that saw an opportunity and took advantage of it.

A guy that has more knowledge has the advantage.

A hitter's impatience is the pitcher's biggest advantage.

A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.

A lawyer's dealings should be just and fair; Honesty shines with great advantage there.

Air power is new to all our countries. It brings advantages to some and weakens others; it calls for readjustment everywhere.

Alexia suspected Lord Maccon's handling was a tad more than was strictly called for under the circumstances, but she secretly enjoyed the sensation. After all, how often did a spinster of her shelf life get manhandled by an earl of Lord Maccon's peerage? She had better take advantage of the situation.

American businessmen have taken advantage of the opportunities which existed in Europe and Europeans seem not to have been aware of.

All I ever wanted was an unfair advantage

A moral rule is essentially 'advantage-reducing.' It prohibits you doing something you could do that would serve your interests at someone else's expense.

An advantage could consist not only in a single important advantage but also in a multitude of insignificant advantages.

An advantage that the Hague Conferences lack, in contrast to the peace associations and the Interparliamentary Union, is a bureau.

An enterprise that is constantly exploring new horizons is likely to have a competitive advantage in attracting and retaining talent.

And I don't want to live anywhere where I am famous. It makes me very, very uncomfortable, because it conveys an advantage over people, and I don't like that.