advantage quotes

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

If I want to do well in racing I need to be more focused so I stopped going to school. If I wasn’t a very good driver it would not be a wise decision, but it gives me an advantage over my competitors.

Being young is a great advantage, since we see the world from a new perspective and we are not afraid to make radical changes.

To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.

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

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

Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor – over each other.

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

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

I’ve always said the one advantage an actor has of converting to a director is that he’s been in front of the camera. He doesn’t have to get in front of the camera again, subliminally or otherwise.

A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.

The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.

It is a neck-and-neck race between Mr. Gray and myself who shall complete our apparatus first. He has the advantage over me in being a practical electrician – but I have reason to believe that I am better acquainted with the phenomena of sound than he is – so that I have an advantage there.