Advantage Quotes

It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Nature, Strong, Opinion

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.
Jane Austen

Education, Men, Story

Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.
Lionel Trilling

Others, Oneself, Understood

Being tall is an advantage, especially in business. People will always remember you. And if you're in a crowd, you'll always have some clean air to breathe.
Julia Child

Business, Remember, Air

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Education, Age, Men

I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.
Samuel Goldwyn

Smile, Sense, Luck

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

Best, Another, Off

For the first time we're allowing developers who don't work at Facebook to develop applications just as if they were. That's a big deal because it means that all developers have a new way of doing business if they choose to take advantage of it. There are whole companies that are forming whose only product is a Facebook Platform application.
Mark Zuckerberg

Work, Time, Business

The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.
Charles Caleb Colton

The advantage of the internet is that it has taken away the charade of politics. China has heard of democracy and people know about certain concepts they wouldn't have previously.
Marilyn Manson

Politics, Democracy, Away

Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.
Doug Coupland

Business, Past, Two

A woman who gives any advantage to a man may expect a lover but will sooner or later find a tyrant.
George Byron

Woman, May, Find

The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.
Charles Caleb Colton

Society, Down, Living

I've made a lot of mistakes. I've bonded with some people who use you, and some people that take advantage of you.
Larry King

Mistakes, Made, Bonded

Music itself is going to become like running water or electricity. So it's like, just take advantage of these last few years because none of this is ever going to happen again. You'd better be prepared for doing a lot of touring because that's really the only unique situation that's going to be left.
David Bowie

Music, Happen, Become

When you're in the position I'm in, you have two options: you can either shut yourself off from everybody, from the world, and not live a full life. Or you welcome everybody into your life and occasionally somebody will try to take advantage.
Daniel Radcliffe

Life, Yourself, Live

A lot of people resist transition and therefore never allow themselves to enjoy who they are. Embrace the change, no matter what it is; once you do, you can learn about the new world you're in and take advantage of it.
Nikki Giovanni

Change, Enjoy, Learn

A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.
Liz Carpenter

Age, Learning, Accept

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.
Joyce Meyer

Hurt, Person, Forgive

I had been gullible, naive, soft, pliable. That's why I got taken advantage of. To survive, you have to have a tough skin.
Tia Carrere

Why, Tough, Taken

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.
Thomas Browne

Society, Alone, Able

In some ways Lawler is a conceptual Diane Arbus. She's a stalker who takes advantage of situations. She pulls back curtains, causing normal things to look freakish and the freakish to turn mundane.
Jerry Saltz

She, Takes, Turn

Because I'm just a giving person spiritually, I feel that if your intentions are to use or abuse or take advantage of, then you might get what you get in the meantime, but there's still a price to pay.
Angie Stone

Person, Giving, Might

When success comes, people can try to trick you or take advantage of you.
Christina Aguilera

Success, Try, Trick

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.
Franz Kafka

Become, Clarity, Changes

Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary at the moment for our evolution, and gives us the best advantage for the development of ourselves.
Edward Bach

Life, Best, Moment

I'd rather wear jewels in my hair than anywhere else. The face should have the advantage of this brilliance.
Hedy Lamarr

Else, Rather, Hair

In Pennsylvania, 38 percent of Pennsylvania seniors chose to get their Medicare from a plan called Medicare Advantage. It's their choice. Forty-seven percent of them are going to lose it under 'Obamacare' according to Medicare by 2017.
Paul Ryan

Lose, Choice, Plan

Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
Henri Matisse

Making, Drawing, Gesture

If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.
Jack Welch

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