Advantage Quotes - Page 8

Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss.

Certainly there was no just cause of complaint from the Northern States - no advantage was ever sought or obtained by them for their section of the Republic.

I can't see any advantage to fame. I'm happy with the life I have now. I've got the same two friends I've had since I was 12, and I can't see that changing.

Jew storekeepers have already learned the advantage to be gained from this [unlimited credit]: they lead on the farmer into irretrievable indebtedness, and keep him ever after as their bondslave hopelessly grinding in the mill.

Calculation has its advantages, but no one likes naked calculation.

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.

This capacity to go beyond the factors of conditioning is one of the obvious advantages of the human person.

I try to use the Australian idiom to its maximum advantage.

To be a Dumont actor was considered to be a great honor for an actor, yet it also had its disadvantages.

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.

I do swear a lot, but the advantage is that having played abroad, I can choose a different language from the referee's.

But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when it is made the reply to calumny and defamation, provided that we give no just occasion for them.

Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.

Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.

They could not understand the advantage of living contrary to their inclinations in this world in order to enjoy a hypothetical well-being in another.

Advantage is a better soldier than rashness.

It [is of] some advantage to live a primitive and frontier life, though in the midst of an outward civilization, if only to learn what are the gross necessities of life.

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.

The journalist, whose main duty is speed, is likely sometimes to get an advantage over the diplomatist whose main object is accuracy.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

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

Genuine listening ability is one of the few true forms of competitive advantage.

No advantages in this world are pure and unmixed.

I am nice to everybody. But people really take advantage of it.