Favors Quotes - Page 33

• You must ignore what everyone else is doing and trade only when you feel the odds are in your favor. In short, trade only when you and you alone are comfortable that the expected return of your trades will be positive. That might mean you'll have to sit out a few parties, but it will also mean that you'll have more profits over the course of your trading career.

  Gary B Smith

  Party, Mean, Odds

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• The possession of wealth is not a mark of Heavenly favor and their absence is not evidence of Heavenly disfavor.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Wealth, Absence, Mark

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• One of the greatest of a great man's qualities is success; 't is the result of all the others; 't is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Success, Men, Quality

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Henry Esmond: And Lovel the Widower”, p.159

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

  Confucius

  Justice, Gentleman, Dirt

  Confucius (1909). “The Sayings of Confucius”

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• Consider once before you give, twice before you receive, and a thousand times before you ask.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Giving, Thousand, Asks

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• What men call friendship is no more than a partnership, a mutual care of interests, an exchange of favors - in a word, it is a sort of traffic, in which self-love ever proposes to be the gainer.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Friends, Men, Self

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• Children, like dogs, have so sharp and fine a scent that they detect and hunt out everything--the bad before all the rest. They also know well enough how this or that friend stands with their parents; and as they practice no dissimulation whatever, they serve as excellent barometers by which to observe the degree of favor or disfavor at which we stand with their parents.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Dog, Children, Practice

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.435, Ravenio Books

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• Fortune, like a coy mistress, loves to yield her favors, though she makes us wrest them from her.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Yield, Mistress, Fortune

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

  Tacitus

  Integrity, Virtue, Accepting

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• 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.]

  Plautus

  Trying, Doe, Succeed

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• As a general rule, those who are dissatisfied with themselves will seek to go out of themselves into an ideal world. Persons in strong health and spirits, who take plenty of air and exercise, who are "in favor with, their stars," and have a thorough relish of the good things of this life, seldom devote themselves in despair to religion or the muses. Sedentary, nervous, hypochondriacal people, on the contrary, are forced, for want of an appetite for the real and substantial, to look out for a more airy food and speculative comforts.

  William Hazlitt

  Strong, Stars, Real

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• It is a proof of boorishness to confer a favor with a bad grace; it is the act of giving that is hard and painful. How little does a smile cost?

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Giving, Grace, Doe

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• The favor of princes does not preclude the existence of merit, and yet does not prove that it exists.
  [Fr., La faveur des princes n'exclut pas le merite, et ne le suppose pas aussi.]

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Doe, Merit, Existence

  "Les Caractères", XII, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 510-11,

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• A great love is a credit opened in favor of a power so consuming that the moment of bankruptcy must inevitably occur.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Credit, Moments

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• Every year, in the deep midwinter, there descends upon this world a terrible fortnight. ... every shop is a choked mass of humanity ... nerves are jangled and frayed, purses emptied to no purposes, all amusements and all occupations suspended in favor of frightful businesses with brown paper, string, letters, cards, stamps, and crammed post offices. This period is doubtless a foretaste of whatever purgatory lies in store for human creatures.

  Rose Macaulay

  Christmas, Lying, Years

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• The suppression of inner patterns in favor of patterns created by society is dangerous to us.

  Anais Nin

  Society, Patterns, Conformity

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• Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.

  Joseph Addison

  Mankind, Ingenuity, Purchasers

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• One precedent in favor of power is stronger than a hundred against it.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Power, Stronger, Hundred

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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• I am not at all in favor of hard work for its own sake; many people who work very hard indeed produce terrible things, and should most certainly not be encouraged.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Work, People, Sake

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1972). “Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay”

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• Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Friendship, Vices, Virtue

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• Avarice is a uniform and tractable vice; other intellectual distempers are different in different constitutions of mind. That which soothes the pride of one will offend the pride of another, but to the favor of the covetous bring money, and nothing is denied.

  Samuel Johnson

  Pride, Intellectual, Mind

  Samuel Johnson (1977). “Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.133, Univ of California Press

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• You seem to think that everyone can save money if they have the character to do it. As a matter of fact, there are innumerable people who have a wide choice between saving and giving their children the best possible opportunities. The decision is usually in favor of the children.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Children, Character, Opportunity

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• The fact is, the cocktail party has much in its favor. Going to one is a good way of indicating that you're still alive and about, if such is the case, and that you're glad other people are, without having to spend an entire evening proving it.

  Peg Bracken

  Party, People, Alive

  Peg Bracken (1964). “I Try to Behave Myself: Peg Bracken's Etiquette Book”

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• 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.

  Bess Streeter Aldrich

  Men, Way, Immortality

  Bess Streeter Aldrich (1939). “Song of Years”

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• Be secret and discreet; the fairy favors are lost when not concealed.

  John Dryden

  Secret, Fairy, Lost

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