Advantage Quotes - page 3

My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor. (Antonia Fraser)
I think in just about any business the low cost competitor is always going to have an advantage. View quote
Gerard Arpey
A lot of times in this business, we are taking advantage of hot times in our career to do a lot of TV and a lot of radio and that sort of thing, and George is able to be so humble that he can get away with not doing those things. View quote
Lee Ann Womack
I had been gullible, naive, soft, pliable. That's why I got taken advantage of. To survive, you have to have a tough skin. View quote
Tia Carrere
Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb. View quote
Yul Brynner
Most of us seldom take the trouble to think. It is a troublesome and fatiguing process and often leads to uncomfortable conclusions. But crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think. View quote
Jawaharlal Nehru
Whatever shall be to the advantage of all, may that prevail! View quote
Demosthenes
I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of everyone. View quote
Camille Claudel
Why could not advantage be taken of a time of relative calm and quiet to investigate and try to solve a question of such immense and worldwide importance, both from the humane and Christian stand-point? View quote
Henry Dunant
Under our system every voter and officeholder is a man who has demonstrated through voluntary and difficult service that he places the welfare of the group ahead of personal advantage. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
It appears to general observation, that revolutions create genius and talents; but those events do no more than bring them forward. There is existing in man, a mass of sense lying in a dormant state, and which, unless something excites it to action, will descend with him, in that condition, to the grave. As it is to the advantage of society that the whole of its faculties should be employed, the construction of government ought to be such as to bring forward, by a quiet and regular operation, all that extent of capacity which never fails to appear in revolutions. (Thomas Paine)
Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage, than any victory with all its expence. View quote
Thomas Paine
Who most benefits from keeping marijuana illegal? The greatest beneficiaries are the major criminal organizations in Mexico and elsewhere that earn billions of dollars annually from this illicit trade - and who would rapidly lose their competitive advantage if marijuana were a legal commodity. View quote
George Soros
A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance. View quote
Alanis Morissette
Men keep their agreements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them; and I shall so frame my laws that it will be evident to the Athenians that it will be for their interest to observe them. View quote
Solon
There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others. View quote
Niccolò Machiavelli
The whole contains nothing which is not or its advantage; and all natures indeed have this common principle, but the nature of the universe has this principle besides, that it cannot be compelled even by any external cause to generate anything harmful to itself. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
What is perceived as a cost by some will turn out to be the competitive advantage of Europe by helping maintain a well-trained, secure workforce, open to change. View quote
Jacques Delors
A strong pursuit, give no time for the enemy to think, take advantage of victory, uproot him, cut off his escape route. View quote
Alexander Suvorov
It is much to my advantage that several of my pictures should be seen together, as it displays to advantage their varieties of conception and also of execution, and what they gain by the mellowing hand of time which should never be forced or anticipated. Thus my pictures when first coming forth have a comparative harshness which at the time acts to my disadvantage. View quote
John Constable
I think that has to do with my awareness that in a sense we all have a certain measure of responsibility to those who have made it possible for us to take advantage of the opportunities. (Angela Davis)
Antoninus diffused order and tranquility over the greatest part of the earth. His reign is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history; which is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. View quote
Edward Gibbon
An instructor should exemplify the things he seeks to teach. It will be of great advantage if you yourself can do all you ask of your students and more. View quote
Bruce Lee
The advantage, the luxury, as well as the torment and responsibility of the novelist, is that there is no limit to what he may attempt as an executant - no limit to his possible experiments, efforts, discoveries, successes. View quote
Henry James
Thus I assume that to each according to his threat advantage is not a conception of justice. View quote
John Rawls
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