Own Position Quotes
22 quotes by 21 authors
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No matter how much someone may irritate me, I have no right to puff myself up with my own self-importance so as to declare that…
— Paulo Freire
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Thus the woman, who had perversely exceeded her proper bounds, is forced back to her own position. She had, indeed, previously been subject to her…
— John Calvin
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When I was at art college, the teachers who helped me were not the ones I agreed with, or the ones who encouraged me, but…
— Brian Eno
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I really and definitely think that France has the capability to come forward. The EU should maintain their own position, without influence.
— Ali Larijani
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All women should inform themselves of the condition of their sex and of their own position. It must necessarily follow that the noblest of them…
— Harriet Martineau
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To 'know your place' is a good idea in politics. That is not to say 'stay in your place' or 'hang on to your place',…
— William Safire
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Never abandon the possibility of attack. Attack even from a position of inferiority, to disrupt the enemy's plans. This often results in improving one's own…
— Adolf Galland
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Often, instead of offering empathy, we have a strong urge to give advice or reassurance and to explain our own position or feeling.
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
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Empathy is a respectful understanding of what others are experiencing. Instead of offering empathy, we often have a strong urge to give advice or reassurance…
— Marshall B. Rosenberg
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As long as one does not call his own position into question but regards it as absolute, while interpreting his opponents' ideas as a mere…
— Karl Mannheim
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Many of my sharpest critics have decided to take a position of ignoring me - because they feel that by attacking me, they would draw…
— Bruce Bartlett
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My own position is so far on the obsessive side of preparation and professionalism that I fear my point of view is not going to…
— Jonny Wilkinson
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For my own part, I believe that in dealing with skeptics, and unbelievers, and enemies of the Bible, Christians are too apt to stand only…
— J C Ryle
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When two people in a marriage are more concerned about getting the golden eggs, the benefits, than they are in preserving the relationship that makes…
— Stephen Covey
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We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust our…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Of all the major religions, or lack thereof, the atheist's is one of the best pretenders: his foundation for all existences, as well as moral…
— Criss Jami
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One must dig deeply into opposing points of view in order to know whether your own position remains defensible. Iron sharpens iron.
— Francis Collins
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What a lost person needs is a map of the territory, with his own position marked on it so he can see where he is…
— Margaret Atwood
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Stephen had spared no expense in making himself more unhappy, his own position as a rejected lover clearer.
— Patrick O'Brian
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Maxim 20: If you’re not willing to shell your own position, you’re not willing to win. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries
— Howard Tayler
Who Wrote These Own Position Quotes
21 authors contributed a total of 22 Own Position Quotes as follows: