advantage quotes

• It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true. (Sophia Loren) [advantage/system/philosophy]
• Freedom from labor itself is not new; it once belonged among the most firmly established privileges of the few. In this instance, it seems as though scientific progress and technical developments had been only taken advantage of to achieve something about which all former ages dreamed but which none had been able to realize. (Hannah Arendt) [civilization & progress/advantage]
• 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/advantage/people/form]
• 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/advantage/privacy/take]
• Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage. (Benjamin Disraeli) [thing/life/advantage]
• We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [give/advantage/light]
• Every advantage has its tax. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [advantage]
• I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first. (Benjamin Franklin) [life/advantage]
• The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money. (Benjamin Franklin) [money/advantage/money]
• Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [advantage]
• It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [human/nature/advantage]
• A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one -- they show one another off to the best advantage. (William Hazlitt) [advantage]
• There would be no advantage to be gained by sowing a field of wheat if the harvest did not return more than was sown. (Napoleon Hill) [advantage/harvest/more]
• War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men. (Napoleon Hill) [war/desire/advantage/men]
• Nothing gives a person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances. (Thomas Jefferson) [advantage]
• Treating your adversary with respect is giving him an advantage to which he is not entitled. (Samuel Johnson) [respect/advantage]
• While formal schooling is an important advantage, it is not a guarantee of success nor is its absence a fatal handicap. (Ray Kroc) [advantage]
• He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg) [willpower/advantage/being]
• A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the faade of his appearance. (Iris Murdoch) [take/advantage/look/truth]
• Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think. (Jawaharlal Nehru) [advantage/think]
• The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time. (Friedrich Nietzsche) [advantage/memory/time]
• True wit is nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but never so well expressed. (Alexander Pope) [nature/advantage]
• Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people. (Jim Rohn) [take/advantage/willpower/literary style]
• It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true. (George Santayana) [advantage/system/philosophy]
• The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that can not read them. (Mark Twain) [books/advantage]
• The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray. (Oscar Wilde) [advantage]
• I always believed that my silence on several topics will be an advantage in the long run. (Aishwarya Rai) [silence/willpower/advantage]
• Some moves it really bothers me, but some of them were OK. I didn't really think that Gisela played really smart with me today, so that was big advantage for me. Definitely, the drop shot was the key, but she didn't use it. (Anastasia Myskina) [think/advantage]
• I didn't really think that Gisela played really smart with me today, so that was big advantage for me. Definitely, the dropshot was the key, but she didn't use it. (Anastasia Myskina) [think/advantage]
• But you pick yourself up. The advantage of being a bigger name is it costs them too much money to cut you out of a movie. (Adrien Brody) [advantage/being/money/movie]
• Melanie is more of a disciplinarian with the little girl than me, probably because it's my first baby. She gets everything easy from Papa. I am more weak. She takes advantage of me. (Antonio Banderas) [more/more/advantage]

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