Advantage Quotes

It’s easy to be taken advantage of if you’re not honest.

What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less.

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

Many who confess their venial sins out of custom and concern for order but without thought of amendment remain burdened with them for their whole life and thus lose many spiritual benefits and advantages.

I’ve learned that with all the advantages that come with being a grown up comes responsibility. Responsibility to be true to yourself, responsibility to honor those who came before you and responsibility to those who will come after you.

The world is so full of people who are grabbing and self-seeking. So the rare individual who unselfishly tries to serve others has an enormous advantage. He has little competition.

System to all things is the soul of business. To execute properly and act maturely is the way to conduct it to your advantage.

Intelligence is an accident of evolution, and not necessarily an advantage.

I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books shouldn’t be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.

To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.