These favor quotes will inspire you. Favor approval, support, or liking for someone or something or an act of kindness beyond what is due or usual.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging favor quotes, favor sayings, and favor proverbs.
Famous Favor Quotes
- “I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it’s possible.” ~ Milton Friedman
- “It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.” ~ H. L. Mencken
- “I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.” ~ Thomas A. Edison
- “Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.” ~ Brian Tracy
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“Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones, and repay greater ones – with ingratitude.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
- “That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not how to return one.” ~ Plautus
- “We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.” ~ Thucydides
- “The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.” ~ Eden Ahbez
- “I might be in favor of national healthcare if it required all Democrats to get their heads examined.” ~ Ann Coulter
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“Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.” ~ Brendan Gill
- “The confidence in another man’s virtue is no light evidence of a man’s own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.” ~ Michel de Montaigne
- “If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.” ~ Henry A. Kissinger
- “And I’m in favor of that because I have a gay son, who’s a very successful theater designer.” ~ Robert MacNeil
- “Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces and favors, and also the great love God showed in giving us in Christ a pledge of His love; for love calls for love in return. Let us strive to keep this always before our eyes and to rouse ourselves to love Him.” ~ Teresa of Avila , God’s favor quotes
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“As a man falls out of favor and his wealth declines, we discover for the first time the ridiculous aspects of his character, which were always there but which wealth and favor had concealed.” ~ Jean de la Bruyere
- “The 9-9-9 plan would resuscitate this economy because it replaces the outdated tax code that allows politicians to pick winners and losers, and to provide favors in the form of tax breaks, special exemptions and loopholes. It simplifies the code dramatically: 9% business flat tax, 9% personal flat tax, 9% sales tax.” ~ Herman Cain
- “The simplest fix for better grilling is to line the inside of your barbecue with tin foil. It dramatically affects how evenly the heat is distributed. That crusty black hibachi or Weber grill is doing your food no favors.” ~ Nathan Myhrvold
- “Racism, because it favors color over talent, is bad for business.” ~ Steven Pinker
- “I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.” ~ Ronald Reagan
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“Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.” ~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- “It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favors.” ~ George Washington
- “Jeet Kune Do favors formlessness so that it can assume all forms and since Jeet Kune Do has no style, it can fit in with all styles. As a result, Jeet Kune Do utilizes all ways and is bound by none and, likewise, uses any techniques which serve its end.” ~ Bruce Lee
- “Pitchers did me a favor when they knocked me down. It made me more determined. I wouldn’t let that pitcher get me out. They say you can’t hit if you’re on your back, but I didn’t hit on my back. I got up.” ~ Frank Robinson
- “The important thing to note is that it is not important whether Malala was shot or not – Malala is not asking for personal favors or support. She is asking for support with girls’ education and women’s rights. So don’t support Malala, support her campaign for girls’ education and women’s rights.” ~ Malala Yousafzai
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“The real cause of personal existence is not the favor of the Almighty, but the sexual love of one’s earthly parents.” ~ Ernst Haeckel
- “Fortune and love favor the brave.” ~ Ovid
- “When I first came to the House of Commons and walked out into the lobby, men sprang to their feet. I asked them to sit down since I’d come to walk around. I didn’t want them doing me favors.” ~ Agnes Macphail
- “Men are never attached to you by favors.” ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
- “This ever thus when favors are denied;
All had been granted but the thing we beg:
And still some great unlikely substitute–
Your life, your soul, you’re all of earthly good–
Is offered, in the room of one small boon.” ~ Joanna Baillie -
“I’m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.” ~ George Carlin
- “Venus favors the bold.” ~ Ovid
- “Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.” ~ P. T. Barnum
- “The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.” ~ Thomas Sowell
- “I’m very much in favor of focused responsibility, and so in the main areas that I’m worried about, I try to have a single person who is basically the key person in that area.” ~ Warren Christopher
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“When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.” ~ Nora Ephron
- “Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.” ~ Ambrose Bierce
- “This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created, and share its benefits more equitably. Trade has been a cornerstone of our growth and global development. But we will not be able to sustain this growth if it favors the few, and not the many.” ~ Barack Obama
- “The earmark favor factory needs to be boarded up and demolished, not turned over to new management that may or may not have a better eye for earmarks with ‘merit.'” ~ Tom Coburn
- “Fortune, that favors fools.” ~ Ben Jonson
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“If you still want to kill him, do me a favor and take him outside. Those are new sheets.” ~ Blake Edwards
- “Fortune favors the audacious.” ~ Desiderius Erasmus
- “Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.” ~ Frederick Douglass
- “People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.” ~ Max Eastman
- “Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.” ~ Baltasar Gracian
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“I believe that no man who holds a leader’s position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone.” ~ Mother Jones
- “Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.” ~ Louis Pasteur
- “Oh, that all the things my father had told me about how disgusting Washington is are true. And again it’s the system – there are lots of nice, well-meaning people there. But it’s a sleazy place. And politics is all about doing favors.” ~ Esther Dyson
- “There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.” ~ George Washington
- “Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.” ~ Jane Austen
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“There’s something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.” ~ A. R. Ammons
- “Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.” ~ Samuel Richardson
- “I have never pressurized a producer to do me any favor.” ~ Kabir Bedi
- “When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.” ~ John Dryden
- “If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.” ~ Dag Hammarskjold
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“Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.” ~ Immanuel Kant
- “If you can’t return a favor, pass it on.” ~ Louise Brown , Return the favor quotes
- “The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a pleasant surprise to ourselves.” ~ Eric Hoffer
- “Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.” ~ Baron de Montesquieu
- “Look around. Oil companies guzzle down the billions in profits. Billionaires pay a lower tax rate than their secretaries, and Wall Street CEOs, the same ones the direct our economy and destroyed millions of jobs still strut around Congress, no shame, demanding favors, and acting like we should thank them. Does anyone here have a problem with that?” ~ Elizabeth Warren
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“I know the world isn’t fair, but why isn’t it ever unfair in my favor?” ~ Bill Watterson
- “Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.” ~ Barbara Ehrenreich
- “Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.” ~ Garrett Hardin
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“I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.” ~ Lyndon B. Johnson
- “As long as mixed grills and combination salads are popular, anthologies will undoubtedly continue in favor.” ~ Elizabeth Janeway
- “Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.” ~ James Lovelock
Favor a kind or helpful act that you do for someone.
