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
People loved her, but took advantage of her, like the Earth.
BILL BIGELOW & TIM SWINEHART
A People's Curriculum for the Earth
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
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
Whatever advantages of birth or fortune you possess, never display them with an ostentatious superiority.
H. BLAIR
attributed, Day's Collacon
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
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
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
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
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
Let nothing pass that will advantage you.
DIONYSIUS CATO
Disticha Moralia
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
Situations have their advantages.
JOSEPH ADDISON
attributed, Day's Collacon
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
Some neglect their advantages, and then exclaim against their unlucky stars.
PROPERTIUS
attributed, Day's Collacon
The need for gain, and advantage over others, is one of the chief driving forces behind all human misery.
BRYANT MCGILL
Voice of Reason
I'm a sentimental sap that's all
What's the use of trying not to fall
I have no will, you made your kill
'Cause you took advantage of me
ELLA FITZGERALD
"You Took Advantage of Me"