Advantage Quotes · Page 26

A state is a perfect body of free men, united together to enjoy common rights and advantages.

— Hugo Grotius

The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions.

— Anonymous

One of the big things I've learned is that there's an advantage to regular low-intensity activity.

— Dan Buettner

Sometimes freedom from normal rules is what gives you competitive advantage.

— Reid Hoffman

It's easy to be led astray when you're so broken. People take advantage of you.

— Willie Aames

I have taken advantage of other people's weaknesses in order to cover my own.

— David Levithan

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

— Anonymous

Blogging got the concept of personal publishing, but it didn't really take advantage of the network.

— Evan Williams

Animals, we have been told, are taught by their organs. Yes, I would add, and so are men, but men have this…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Probably any successful career has X number of breaks in it, and maybe the difference between successful people and those who aren't…

— Joan Ganz Cooney

With digital, you do have the advantage of having an absolutely rock steady image because there's no projector gate, no perforations, no…

— Greg MacGillivray

Yet the success of plans and the advantage to be derived from them do not at all times agree, seeing the gods…

— Ammianus Marcellinus

“It is easy-terribly easy-to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to to break a man's spirit is…

— George Bernard Shaw

The objective is to enlarge the scope of your advantage which can only happen at someone else's expense.

— Bruce Henderson

What I think the mentor gets is the great satisfaction of helping somebody along, helping somebody take advantage of an opportunity that…

— Clint Eastwood

Obviously, you know, I am known as an action director, and being a film editor previously had been a great advantage for…

— John Glen

The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without…

— J. Irwin Miller

Obama's not down for the civil rights struggle, and he certainly wasn't down for the apartheid struggle, but he's clearly gonna take…

— Rush Limbaugh

I don't believe that China, in my lifetime or maybe my children's lifetime, be equal to the United States militarily speaking, but…

— Jimmy Carter

I’m actually taking advantage of my time off. You know, I had a film that was pushed, so I’m home spending time…

— Eva Mendes

Those who threaten Israel threaten us. Israel has always faced these threats on the frontlines, and I will bring to the White…

— Barack Obama

The important point is to be on the spot at the moment most favorable for gaining the desired advantage; and it will…

— David Graham Phillips

Be careful in your relations with the government; for they draw no man close to themselves except for their own interests. They…

— Gamaliel

If the court strikes down the Defense of Marriage Act, is that a 'liberal' result enabling gay couples married in states where…

— Jeff Greenfield

When the sovereign spirit within us is true to nature, it stands poised and ready to adjust to every change in circumstances…

— Marcus Aurelius

Now individual consciousness, as typified in human beings, has great advantages and great disadvantages. Individuality means a narrowing, and narrowness can be…

— Colin Wilson

I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs…

— Jane Austen

It is way less certain to be a wonderful business in the future. The threat is alternative mediums of information. Every newspaper…

— Charlie Munger

It is not till it is discovered that high individual incomes will not purchase the mass of mankind immunity from cholera, typhus,…

— R. H. Tawney

The history of men of science has one peculiar advantage, as it shows the importance of little things in producing great results.…

— Robert Aris Willmott

“Advantage! What is advantage? And will you take it upon yourself to define with perfect accuracy in what the advantage of man…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I think, when I started to become successful in the movie business, my mother was very, very worried. She thought no one…

— Sherry Lansing

Time and place often give advantage to the weak over the strong.

— Aesop

I try to take advantage of any time that Simeone gives me.

— Thomas Partey

Don't be color blind, be color brave. Embrace diversity as a competitive advantage.

— Mellody Hobson

The actual danger is nothing, and the positive advantages very great.

— William John Wills

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

— Alexander Pope

I certainly have an advantage over some because I can pass on so much from the World Cups I played in.

— Diego Maradona

President [Barack] Obama is a man who had certain advantages because of the civil rights movement.

— Danny Glover

Fools take criticism and dish it back. The wise take it and turn it to their advantage.

— Michael Hyatt