Favors Quotes

Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.
Benjamin Franklin

Small, Return, Greater

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Gratitude, Done, Far

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.
George Washington

Experience, Real, Pride

This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created, and share its benefits more equitably. Trade has been a cornerstone of our growth and global development. But we will not be able to sustain this growth if it favors the few, and not the many.
Barack Obama

Moment, Able, Few

Favors Quote

We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.
Thucydides

Friends, Accepting, Secure

Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.
Ambrose Bierce

Truth, Sense, Common

Fortune favors the prepared mind.
Louis Pasteur

Mind, Fortune, Prepared

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Hope, Gratitude, Secret

In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Hope, Gratitude, Secret

Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.
Horace

Fool, Makes, She

The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.
Michel de Montaigne

God, Confidence, Light

The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.
Eric Hoffer

Feeling, Ourselves, Surprise

This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.
Amelia Barr

Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
Baltasar Gracian

Long, Sometimes, Her

Fortune favors the audacious.
Desiderius Erasmus

Fortune, Audacious

Technology favors horrible people.
Doug Coupland

Technology, Horrible

I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone.
Mother Jones

Alone, Leader, Show

Venus favors the bold.
Ovid

Chance favors the prepared mind.
Louis Pasteur

Mind, Chance, Prepared

Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.
Garrett Hardin

Positive, Earth, Private

The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them.
Publilius Syrus

Person, Knows, Return

The 9-9-9 plan would resuscitate this economy because it replaces the outdated tax code that allows politicians to pick winners and losers, and to provide favors in the form of tax breaks, special exemptions and loopholes. It simplifies the code dramatically: 9% business flat tax, 9% personal flat tax, 9% sales tax.
Herman Cain

Business, Special, Winners

Look around. Oil companies guzzle down the billions in profits. Billionaires pay a lower tax rate than their secretaries, and Wall Street CEOs, the same ones the direct our economy and destroyed millions of jobs still strut around Congress, no shame, demanding favors, and acting like we should thank them. Does anyone here have a problem with that?
Elizabeth Warren

Down, Same, Problem

Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.
James Lovelock

Nature, Leave, Survive

I know I'm not doing myself any favors by continuing to play.
Brett Favre

Play, Continuing

You can say that I lived in Asia for a long time and in Japan I became close to several CIA agents. And you could say that I became an adviser to several CIA agents in the field and, through my friends in the CIA, met many powerful people and did special works and special favors.
Steven Seagal

Time, Powerful, Long

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
Charles de Montesquieu

Friendship, Small, Big

Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
Barbara Ehrenreich

History, Human, Natural

That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites.
Hans Kung

Give, Favorites, Roman

The U.S. has since the end of World War II had an answer - we stand for free peoples and free markets, we are willing to support and defend them - we will sustain a balance of power that favors freedom.
Condoleezza Rice

Power, War, Freedom

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