ADVANTAGE QUOTES II

quotations about advantages

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

FRED SCHULTZ

Multicultural Education: 1999-2000 Edition


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

PLAUTUS

attributed, Day's Collacon


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


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


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

H. BLAIR

attributed, Day's Collacon


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


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


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


Let nothing pass that will advantage you.

DIONYSIUS CATO

Disticha Moralia


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


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"