Advantage Quotes

Politeness and a sense of honor have this advantage: we bestow them on others without losing a thing.

The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.

The team that's on defense first (in overtime) has the advantage because they know whether they need a touchdown a field goal or just a score.

Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

Let us take advantage of the opportunities presented by climate action and lay the foundations for a more prosperous and secure future for all

Advertising doesn't create a product advantage. It can only convey it.

Men keep their engagements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them.

There is nothing wrong in using people. The success never uses people except to their advantage.

A hitter's impatience is the pitcher's biggest advantage.

In old age, you realise that while you're divided from your youth by decades, you can close your eyes and summon it at will. As a writer it puts one at a distinct advantage.

He that would be a great man must learn to turn every accident to some advantage.

But as far as my work is concerned, I see no impediment, and various advantages, to being deaf.

One event makes another. What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens; and time can only prove which is most for our advantage.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.

The civil power must not be subservient to the advantage of any one individual, or of some few persons; inasmuch as it was established for the common good of all.

Luck?" Drizzt replied. "Perhaps. But more often, I dare to say, luck is simply the advantage a true warrior gains in excuting the correct course of action.

Never in history was there a method devised of such efficacy for setting each country's advantage at variance with its neighbours' as the international gold (or, formerly, silver) standard.

I don't like to have anybody tell me to be in a place at certain times. That's kind of the advantage of stand up. You're self-employed.

The government can give citizens opportunity and it's their responsibility to take advantage of it.

Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want--which is, to pass for good.

Take advantage and control the moment. Don't let the moment take control of you.

Exploiting a sustainable competitive advantage is great... If you can find it.

Being a novelty had its advantages.

We change who we are to fit the exogenous of our time, and not just strategically or to our own advantage, sometimes sympathetically without our even knowing it for the betterment of the whole group.

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

Such is the advantage of a well constructed language that its simplified notation often becomes the source of profound theories.

There are few in America that really know how to take advantage of the current health care system.

I think it is to the advantage of my state to have the opportunity to come to meetings occasionally and to vote in person, rather than just by proxy.

Of course I want to be good, but that may not be to your advantage.

Happiness doesn't come from big pieces of great success, but from small advantages hammered out day by day.

Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what is unknown to us?

The Devil has a great advantage against us inasmuch as he has a strong bastion and bulwark against us in our own flesh and blood.

In misfortune if you cultivate a cheerful disposition you will reap the advantage of it.

User habits are a competitive advantage. Products that change customer routines are less susceptible to attacks from other companies.

The advantage that hospitals have over other institutions is that hospitals are community-based. You can't outsource your work; you can't move your emergency department to Pakistan.

I really believe in my work and in no way think I'm taking advantage of anyone. I feel generous when selling my art.

There are no shortcuts. You have to work hard, and try to put yourself in a position where if luck strikes, you can see the opportunity and take advantage of it.

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

I mean, movies are all geared to be basically under 25, and they're all tentpoles, explosions, excitement and all that - they take advantage of the big screen, which is great.

I worked hard. I worked late. I went in early. I did everything I could to gain an advantage.

When you find errors in conventional wisdom-when everyone says A and A is not true-you gain competitive advantage. Only a few times do you have to find errors in conventional wisdom to make a living.

The advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a stroke of the pencil.

Against great advantages in another, there are no means of defending ourselves except love.

The main selling appeal of NAFTA to US corporations is that it gives them an advantage in the North American market over their European and Japanese competitors.

I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy.

I would love to be a well-educated black, because I believe they do have an actual advantage.

Writing is a solitary occupation, and one of its hazards is loneliness. But an advantage of loneliness is privacy, autonomy and freedom.

The great advantage to labor arising out of co-operative effort has been apparent to me for many years.