ADVANTAGE QUOTES II

quotations about advantages

Learn to make good use of your advantages by improving them.

PLAUTUS

attributed, Day's Collacon


Having advantages is an advantage; we're fooling ourselves if we ignore the inequalities it produces.

FRED SCHULTZ

Multicultural Education: 1999-2000 Edition


Sometimes we want to believe something so badly that we allow ourselves to be taken advantage of.

AARON B. POWELL

Doomsday Diaries III


Catastrophe can be turned into an advantage, just as an advantage with incorrect application can be turned into a catastrophe.

STEVEN REDHEAD

Life Is Simply a Game


Whatever advantages of birth or fortune you possess, never display them with an ostentatious superiority.

H. BLAIR

attributed, Day's Collacon


People loved her, but took advantage of her, like the Earth.

BILL BIGELOW & TIM SWINEHART

A People's Curriculum for the Earth


To take advantage of unexpected opportunities, we must leave ourselves available.

DAVID A. STODDARD

The Heart of Mentoring


There's one advantage in being a fool: you needn't be lonely.

EVAN ESAR

20,000 Quips & Quotes


My momma always said the best way to get what you want from people is to give them what they think they want. They expected me to be stupid, so I used that to our advantage.

JUSTINA IRELAND

Dread Nation


Having an advantage is not the same as having the advantage. And leveling the playing field doesn't necessarily create a favorable gradient.

CARLA HOCH

Fight Write


Our advantages in life generally bear a direct proportion to the exertions we make to secure them; by neglecting them, they often flee from us never to return.

W.T. BURKE

attributed, Day's Collacon


If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics--a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage--surely that proves that you are in the right?

GEORGE ORWELL

Shooting an Elephant


When we are superior to another it furnishes us that convenience or opportunity, to take an advantage by which we can make him useful, profitable, and beneficial to us.

H. LOWE

attributed, Day's Collacon


Let nothing pass that will advantage you.

DIONYSIUS CATO

Disticha Moralia


Sometimes a millionaire's son overcomes the obstacle of having no obstacles, and succeeds in spite of his advantages.

EVAN ESAR

20,000 Quips & Quotes


The need for gain, and advantage over others, is one of the chief driving forces behind all human misery.

BRYANT MCGILL

Voice of Reason


Some neglect their advantages, and then exclaim against their unlucky stars.

PROPERTIUS

attributed, Day's Collacon


To expose one's self to great danger for trivial advantages, is to fish with a golden book, where more may be lost than gained.

AUGUSTUS CAESAR

attributed, Day's Collacon


Advantage! What is advantage? And will you take it upon yourself to define with perfect accuracy in what the advantage of man consists? And what if it so happens that a man's advantage, sometimes, not only may, but even must, consist in his desiring in certain cases what is harmful to himself and not advantageous. And if so, if there can be such a case, the whole principle falls into dust. What do you think--are there such cases? You laugh; laugh away, gentlemen, but only answer me: have man's advantages been reckoned up with perfect certainty?

FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY

Notes from Underground


Situations have their advantages.

JOSEPH ADDISON

attributed, Day's Collacon