Advantage Quotes - Page 23

• Whatever may be the general endeavor of a community to render its members equal and alike, the personal pride of individuals will always seek to rise above the line, and to form somewhere an inequality to their own advantage.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Pride, Community, Lines

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2003). “Democracy in America”, p.551, Regnery Publishing

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• Avarice often produces opposite results: there are an infinite number of persons who sacrifice their property to doubtful and distant expectations; others mistake great future advantages for small present interests.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Hope, Mistake, Sacrifice

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• We ought not to be over-anxious to encourage innovation in cases of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established, and it is understood.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Inspirational, Two, Innovation

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.218

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• Dying man couldn't make up his mind which place to go to-both have their advantages, heaven for the climate, hell for the company!

  Mark Twain

  Religious, Men, Heaven

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• Men who possess all the advantages of life are in a state where there are many accidents to disorder and discompose, but few to please them.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, States, Disorder

  Jonathan Swift (1752). “The works of D. Jonathan Swift ...: To which is prefixed, the doctor's life, with remarks on his writings, from the Earl of Orrery and others, not to be found in any former edition of his works.Dublin printed”, p.279

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• Money. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Money, Blessing, Wealth

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.146, 谷月社

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• Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives not by truth but by make-believe.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Life, Believe, Men

  W. Somerset Maugham (2010). “The Summing Up”, p.291, Random House

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• The fool has one great advantage over a man of sense; he is always satisfied with himself.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Stupidity, Fool

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• The sage has one advantage: he is immortal. If this is not his century, many others will be.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Wisdom, Intelligence, Sage

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• There are no events so disastrous that adroit men do not draw some advantage from them, nor any so fortunate that the imprudent cannot turn to their own prejudice.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Success, Men, Events

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• The one advantage of playing with fire...is
  that no one ever gets singed. It is the people who don't know how to play with it who get burned up.

  Oscar Wilde

  Fun, Fire, Play

  Oscar Wilde, Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Lady Wilde, Henry Zick (1909). “The Complete Writings of Oscar Wilde: What never dies”

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• The major advantage of domestic travel is that, with a few exceptions such as Miami, most domestic locations are conveniently situated right here in the United States.

  Dave Barry

  Travel, Fun, United States

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.14, Ballantine Books

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• Enterprise is first creativity. You need creativity to see what's out there and shape it to your advantage. You need creativity to look at the world a little differently. You need creativity to take a different approach, to be different.

  Jim Rohn

  Creativity, Different, Needs

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• I realize now that there's a strength in dunking that I can use to my advantage. When you dunk all the time it isn't as demoralizing to the opponent, but when you dunk at a key moment in the game you can use it to change the momentum.

  Kobe Bryant

  Basketball, Keys, Games

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• He's very knowledgeable. That's the one advantage that I see in Kobe Bryant's career compared to Michael Jordan. Ten years into Kobe Bryant's career, we're seeing a very polished 27-year-old player who's probably got another seven or eight great years ahead of him.

  Scottie Pippen

  Basketball, Player, Eight

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• Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation, it cannot be classified as an illness.

  Sigmund Freud

  Vices, Degradation, Illness

  Letter to an American mother, 9 Apr. 1935

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• The principal advantage of the non-parental lifestyle is that on Christmas Eve you need not be struck dumb by the three most terrifying words that the government allows to be printed on any product: "Some assembly required."

  John Leo

  Funny Christmas, Government, Dumb

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• The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. Through this I know the advantage of taking no action.

  Laozi

  Acting, Overcoming, World

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• Do not wish for quick results, nor look for small advantages. If you seek quick results, you will not reach the ultimate goal. If you are led astray by small advantages, you will never accomplish great things.

  Confucius

  Badass, Goal, Wish

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• The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. It is said that leaders are readers. However if they read trashy magazines for the majority of their time and they never run with the information that they glean from resourceful books, then they may as well have not taken any time to read at all. It is easier to stay out than get out.

  Mark Twain

  Running, Inspirational Life, Taken

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• You grow most in your areas of greatest strength. You will improve the most, be the
  most creative, be the most inquisitive, and bounce back the fastest in those areas
  where you have already shown some natural advantage over everyone else your strengths. This doesn't mean you should ignore your weaknesses. It just means
  you'll grow most where you're already strong.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Inspirational, Strong, Monday

  Marcus Buckingham (2008). “The Truth About You: Your Secret to Success”, p.15, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.

  Nancy Mitford

  Family, Life Lesson, Being Thankful

  The Pursuit of Love ch. 1 (1945)

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• We are only safe when we wisely make use of all good advantages that we have access to. By going out of God's ways we go out of His government, and so lose our good frame of mind, and find ourselves overspread quickly with a contrary disposition. When we draw near to Christ (James 4:8), in His ordinances, He draws near to us.

  Richard Sibbes

  Christian, Blessing, Government

  Richard Sibbes (2015). “Complete Works of Richard Sibbes: (7 Volume Set)”, p.110, Titus Books

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• God's children improve all advantages to advance their grand end; they labour to grow better by blessings and crosses, and to make sanctified use of all things.

  Richard Sibbes

  Christian, Children, Blessing

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• The history of men of science has one peculiar advantage, as it shows the importance of little things in producing great results. Smeaton learned his principle of constructing a lighthouse, by noticing the trunk of a tree to be diminished from a curve to a cyclinder ... and Newton, turning an old box into a water-clock, or the yard of a house into a sundial, are examples of those habits of patient observation which scientific biography attractively recommends.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Science, Men, Curves

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