Favors Quotes

It is good breeding alone that can prepossess people in your favor at first sight, more time being necessary to discover greater talents.

... by chance you will say, but chance only favors the mind which is prepared.

Don't wait for, expect, or rely on favors. Count on earning them by hard work and perseverance.

It now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one...the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals.

No wind favors he who has no destined port.

The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.

One of the reasons that I am in favor of less government is because when you have more government, industrialists take it over.

But I also know that to ignore joy while it lasts, in favor of lamenting one's fate, is a great crime.

Men are never attached to you by favours.

The friendship of a great man is a favor of the gods.

When a man is a favorite of Fortune she never takes him unawares, and, however astonishing her favors may be, she finds him ready.

I'm all in favor of getting grants for musicians. Or any other good brand of Scotch.

Airlines are interesting. They not only favor celebrities, they court them.

Finding that the middle condition of life is by far the happiest, I look with little favor upon that of princes.

We should try to succeed by merit, not by favor. He who does well will always have patrons enough. [Lat., Virtute ambire oportet, non favitoribus. Sat habet favitorum semper, qui recte facit.]

Before I give you a blessing, I ask you for a favor: I want you to bless me.

To accept a favor is to sell one's freedom. -Beneficium accipere libertatem est vendere

God himself favors the brave.

We do not fear the loss of God's favor, for either we have it not. We cannot lose it. What we fear is the loss of our idols.

I'm not in favor of any discrimination of any form.

Never take your position for granted and never let any favors you receive go to your head.

The Universe favors the brave. When you resolve to lift your life to its highest level, the strength of your soul will guide you to a magical place with magnificent treasures.

Miroku: Kagome, are you worrying about me? Kagome: I guess so. Miroku: In that case, I have a favor to ask of you: please bear my child.

The trouble with giving advice is that others want to return the favor.

Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.

The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we'll ever get paid back appropriately.

And I’m calling in a favor. (Savitar) Sav, you can’t keep doing this. I’m running out of places to put the bodies. (Takeshi)

What an argument in favor of social connections is the observation that by communicating our grief we have less, and by communicating our pleasure we have more.

I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened. At the same time, a response to a response doesn't really solve anything. It just creates a perpetual-motion machine.

There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.

The memory of past favors is like a rainbow, bright, vivid, and beautiful; but it soon fades away. The in memory of injuries is engraved on the heart, and remains forever.

Look with favor upon a bold beginning.

I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.

Religion, richest favor of the skies.

the detective's highest talent lay in the gentle art of seeking favours under the guise of conferring them!

Fortune favors the brave; and the world certainly gives the most credit to those who are able to give an unlimited credit to themselves.

Biggest affirmative argument I know in favor of 'If a man die, shall he live again?' is just the way you feel inside you that nothin' can stop you from livin' on.

to ask for anything of consequence from friends who cannot refuse is uncivilized.

To have divine favor on your life means you'll attract extraordinary opposition

Divine favor causes you to rise to the top in your sphere of influence, and the reality is that favor can be recognized more easily is your start at the bottom.

Gentlemen cherish worth; the vulgar cherish dirt. Gentlemen trust in justice; the vulgar trust in favor.

A strong brand is the only thing that can tip the balance of power between distributors and a manufacturer back into the manufacturer's favor.

When a secretary of state rakes in millions and millions of dollars trading access and favors to special interests and foreign powers, I know the time for action has come.

Gratitude is a very pleasant sensation, both for those who feel and to those who excite it. No one who confers a favor can say with truth that they 'want no thanks.' They always do.

Lightness, jesting, and joking, can only be indulged at the expense of barrenness of soul, and the loss of the favor of God.

To say that Reagan teaches us that we should be against amnesty for illegal immigrants is to contradict what Reagan himself stood for - that he was in favor of amnesty.

I think I've always looked older than I am. I hope that's going to work in my favor when I get older.

Salvation is all about the grace of God. There is absolutely nothing that you can do to save yourself or earn God's favor.

Gratitude, in most men, is only a strong and secret hope of greater favors.

Luck favors the people who are willing to grind it out.