These advantage quotes will inspire you. Advantage, something (such as a good position or condition) that helps to make someone or something better or more likely to succeed than others or a condition or circumstance that puts one in a favorable or superior position.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, knowledgeable, and encouraging advantage quotes, advantage sayings, and advantage proverbs.
Best Advantage Quotes
- “Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.” ~ Niccolo Machiavelli
- “There is a great advantage in training under unfavorable conditions. It is better to train under bad conditions, for the difference is then a tremendous relief in a race.” ~ Emil Zatopek
- “I think I was born strong-willed. That’s not the kind of thing you can learn. The advantage is, you stick to what you believe in and rarely get pushed out of what you want to do.” ~ Joan Jett
- “If you don’t have a competitive advantage, don’t compete.” ~ Jack Welch
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“To every disadvantage, there is a corresponding advantage.” ~ W. Clement Stone
- “Life is life – whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man’s own advantage.” ~ Sri Aurobindo
- “Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.” ~ Ambrose Bierce
- “Americans have the right and advantage of being armed – unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.” ~ James Madison
- “No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one’s sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one’s character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.” ~ William James , Don’t take advantage quotes
- “We should increase our development of alternative fuels, taking advantage of renewable resources, like using corn and sugar to produce ethanol or soybeans to produce biodiesel.” ~ Bobby Jindal
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“We need to take advantage of the opportunity we have now to create a vision and become great.” ~ Christine Gregoire
- “SF has at least the advantage of not depending on preconceptions.” ~ John Thomas Sladek
- “Now the advantage is all with the hitters.” ~ Rogers Hornsby
- “Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it’s been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.” ~ Douglas Coupland
- “On certain plays and situations, I feel like I have the advantage. But sometimes I just have to not think about the size of the guy in front of me.” ~ Dante Hall
- “There have been people who have tried to take advantage of me. They want to be linked to me just because I’m Ethel Merman.” ~ Ethel Merman
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“In Full Frontal and K Street, I learned to take advantage of the mobility that digital provides.” ~ Steven Soderbergh
- “The present time has one advantage over every other — it is our own.” ~ Charles Caleb Colton
- “One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.” ~ Franz Kafka
- “Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
- “The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
- “One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again.” ~ Judith Viorst , Advantage quotes love
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“I don’t want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage is being able to make a right turn on a red light.” ~ Woody Allen
- “That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.” ~ Thomas Paine
- “A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.” ~ Mark Twain
- “The advantage of love, at first sight, is that it delays a second sight.” ~ Natalie Clifford Barney
- “The concessions of the privileged to the unprivileged are seldom brought about by any better motive than the power of the unprivileged to extort them.” ~ John Stuart Mill
- “It’s easy to be led astray when you’re so broken. People take advantage of you.” ~ Willie Aames
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“When success comes, people can try to trick you or take advantage of you.” ~ Christina Aguilera
- “A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.” ~ Liz Carpenter
- “Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.” ~ Frederick Douglass
- “A lot of people resist transition and therefore never allow themselves to enjoy who they are. Embrace the change, no matter what it is; once you do, you can learn about the new world you’re in and take advantage of it.” ~ Nikki Giovanni
- “You get people talking about being worried about their art, and dances… their culture being wiped out or taken over, and yet these same people are taking advantage of their people to use them as cheap labor.” ~ Arlo Guthrie , Taking advantage quotes
- “My parents didn’t believe in luck. They believed in hard work and in preparing me to take advantage of opportunity. Like many parents, they taught me to be generous but never to depend on the generosity of others.” ~ Naveen Jain
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“One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.” ~ A. A. Milne
- “Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage.” ~ Jawaharlal Nehru
- “When you’re in the position I’m in, you have two options: you can either shut yourself off from everybody, from the world, and not live a full life. Or you welcome everybody into your life and occasionally somebody will try to take advantage.” ~ Daniel Radcliffe
- “Sometimes people don’t trust the force of kindness. They think love or compassion or kindness will make you weak and kind of stupid and people will take advantage of you; you won’t stand up for other people.” ~ Sharon Salzberg
- “It’s about taking advantage of the opportunities you have right now, and right now we’re in a position where you call somebody and they’re willing to pick up and take the call because they’re a fan, you have to take advantage of that and have a chance to capitalize on your ideas.” ~ Dwyane Wade
- “To get away from one’s working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one’s self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.” ~ Charles Horton Cooley , Work advantage quotes
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“For them to perceive the advantage of defeating the enemy, they must also have their rewards.” ~ Sun Tzu
- “Advantage is a better soldier than rashness.” ~ Henry George Bohn
- “Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
- “Freedom from labor itself is not new; it once belonged among the most firmly established privileges of the few. In this instance, it seems as though scientific progress and technical developments had been only taken advantage of to achieve something about which all former ages dreamed but which none had been able to realize.” ~ Hannah Arendt
- “It is, no doubt, an immense advantage to have done nothing, but one should not abuse it.” ~ Antoine Rivarol
- “There are few in America that really know how to take advantage of the current health care system.” ~ Matthew Lesko
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“Do not adultery commit; Advantage rarely comes of it.” ~ Arthur Hugh Clough
- “There would be no advantage to be gained by sowing a field of wheat if the harvest did not return more than was sown.” ~ Napoleon Hill
- “Generally speaking, the less privileged groups in democratic society, as they become aware of their interests and their political power, will be found to press for ever more state intervention in practically all fields.” ~ Gunnar Myrdal
- “It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
- “A guardian angel comes when you are very young, and gives you special dispensation. From what? From the world. Yours might be luck. Mine is money.” ~ Jane Bowles
- “Indeed, as the above calculation indicates, to take full advantage of the memory space available, the ultimate laptop must turn all its matter into energy.” ~ Seth Lloyd
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“Every advantage has its tax.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “We need improvement in the style of performance. There is no more advantage in a musician who plays and conducts than in one who is only a beater of rhythm.” ~ Franz Liszt
- “Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.” ~ William S. Burroughs
- “Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn’t do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.” ~ Bette Davis
- “It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one’s own advantage and to that of one’s craft that a large part of genius consists.” ~ Georg C. Lichtenberg
- “Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.” ~ Jawaharlal Nehru
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“We try to be real nice and friendly to people, but sometimes they take advantage of that.” ~ Layne Staley
- “But I think the image that’s thrown out on television is a bad image. Because you see players who want to imitate hip-hop stars. And the NBA is taking advantage of the situation.” ~ Oscar Robertson
- “We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love – first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.” ~ Albert Camus
- “Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.” ~ Lionel Trilling
- “The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.” ~ Oscar Wilde
- “Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething.” ~ Mark Twain
- “Every disadvantage has its advantage.” ~ Johan Cruijff
