Quotes About Advantage

Never give anyone the advantage of seeing you weak. One day they will use it against you.

Everyone faces challenges in life. It's a matter of how you learn to overcome them & using that experience to your advantage.

Never compromise your today for your tomorrow that is not certain, make the best of everyday you have to see, despite what tomorrow might bring, take the advantage of what you are sure of now than let it slip away for what doesn't sure of later.

We don't succeed or fail because of fortune or luck. We succeed because we understand the way the world works and what we have to do. We fail because others understand this better than we do. They take advantage of things...and they don't question things. As long as those things work for them, then they support those things. But you see the lie beneath those things because you never got to take part.

For privileged people, equality in an unequal world is a bonanza.

God is always a good God; right is right; and with every disadvantage there is a greater advantage, if one seeks and finds it.

Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives... by make-believe.

We wander on the earth, or err from bed to bed in search of home, and fail, and weep for the lost ages Before Because became As If, or rigid Certainty The Chances Are. The base hear us, and the violent Who long to calm our guilt with murder, and already Have not been slow to turn our wish to their advantage.

There must always be some advantage on one side or the other, and it is better that advantage should be had by talents than by chance.

I think if you have the opportunity to bully your opponent then you have to take that chance.

Death puts an end to rivalship and competition. The dead can boast no advantage over us, nor can we triumph over them.

No es preciso tener una visión evolucionada de la vida para ansiar poder, ni para alcanzarlo. De hecho, una visión evolucionada de la vida puede ser el peor obstáculo, mientras que la carencia de esa visión puede ser la ventaja más espléndida.

The status conferred by economic and vocational advantage inclined them to believe that those who lacked their prestige were rebuffed by the larger society more because of insular clannishness than because of any pronounced taste for exclusiveness on the part of the Christian majority, and that neighborhoods like ours were less the result of discrimination than its breeding grounds.

People who are rich, successful, and beautiful may well go through life relying on their natural gifts.

Every woman should marry for her own advantage since her husband will represent her, as visible as her front door, for the rest of his life. If she chooses a wastrel she will be avoided by all her neighbors as a poor woman; catch a duke and she will be Your Grace, and everyone will be her friend. She can be pious, she can be learned,she cane be witty and wise and beautiful, but if she is married to a fool she will be that poor Mrs. Fool until the day he dies.

I looked over to Anne. She was untying her mask and watching me with a long calculating look, the Boleyn look, the Howard look that says: what has happened here, and how may I turn it to my advantage? It was as if under her golden mask was another beautiful mask of skin, and only beneath that was the real woman.

I say that justice is nothing other than the advantage of [c] the stronger.

La mayor ventaja del Amor es que no puede recibir ninguna ofensa de parte de los hombres o de los dioses, y que ni dioses ni hombres pueden ser ofendidos por él, porque si sufre o hace sufrir es sin coacción, siendo la violencia incompatible con el amor.

SOCRATES: And you would admit once more, my good sir, that great power is a benefit to a man if his actions turn out to his advantage, and that this is the meaning of great power; and if not, then his power is an evil and is no power. But let us look at the matter in another way:—do we not acknowledge that the things of which we were speaking, the infliction of death, and exile, and the deprivation of property are sometimes a good and sometimes not a good?

Ora, è chiaro altresì che, per le dure leggi del commercio, quanto è di vantaggio a chi vende è svantaggio a chi compra, e viceversa

Politics, he thought sourly. It was not, as the philosopher Ajencis had written, the negotiation of advantage within communities of men; it was more an absurd auction than an exercise in oratory. One bartered principle and piety to accomplish what principle and piety demanded. One sullied himself in order to be cleansed.

His wealth and connections open a door

All living things are looking to gain an advantage for themselves, but the process also imposes a burden on them. Generally speaking, the potential gain right in front of you causes you to forget the potential disaster right behind you. The two are connected." Chuang Tzu

The technique of discovering 'secret marks of the body' by astrological means was fairly widely employed, and the earlier astrologer Simon Forman used it on many occasions as an aid to seducing his female clients. There must surely have been something in it, if only informed guesswork. In any case if an astrologer could tell a client that he or she had a mole on the right side of her navel and it turned out to be the case, some sort of advantage surely resulted.