Favors Quotes - Page 6

• We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.

  Thucydides

  Inspirational, Friendship, Accepting

  "The History of the Peloponnesian War".

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• Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Talking, Wit, Expenses

  "Pensées Diverses" by Baron de Montesquieu, 1879.

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• Germany is in favor of integration precisely because we don't want dominance.

  Gerhard Schroder

  Germany, Want, Dominance

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

  Publilius Syrus

  Acceptance, Accepting, Sells

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• To a well deserving person God will show favor. To an ill deserving person He will simply be just.

  Plautus

  Kindness, Ill, Shows

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• 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

  Real, 4th Of July, Pride

  George Washington (1833). “Declaration of Independence ... with the Names, Places of Residence, &c. of the Signers. Constitution of the United States ...: Also, Address of George Washington ... on Declining Being Considered a Candidate for Their Future Suffrages. September 17, 1796”, p.45

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• Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Truth, Common Sense, Utterance

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.90, University of Georgia Press

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• 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

  Growth, Development, Benefits

  Address to the People of Berlin, delivered 24 July 2008, Victory Column

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• 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

  Eye, Needs, May

  "For Republicans, the Moment for Reform Has Arrived" by Tom Coburn, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 24, 2010.

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• Fortune, that favors fools.

  Ben Jonson

  Fool, Fortune

  The Alchemist prologue (1610)

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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

  Want, Sheets, Stills

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• 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

  Long, Pay, Duration

  Baltasar Gracian, Baltasar Gracián y Morales (2004). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.22, Shambhala Publications

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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

  Believe, Responsibility, Men

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• Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.

  Louis Pasteur

  Life, Business, Past

  Address at inauguration of Faculty of Science, University of Lille, Lille, France, 7 Dec. 1854

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• 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

  Father, Nice, People

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• I asked you here tonight because when you realise you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

  Graeme Simsion

  Love, Cute, Romantic

  Graeme Simsion (2014). “The Rosie Project: A Novel”, p.267, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Responsibility, Keys, Trying

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• There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.

  A. R. Ammons

  Real, World, Isolation

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• Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Leadership, People, Return

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• 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 favours.

  Agnes Macphail

  Men, Feet, House

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• Men are never attached to you by favours.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Favour

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• Tis ever thus when favours are denied;
  All had been granted but the thing we beg:
  And still some great unlikely substitute--
  Your life, your soul, your all of earthly good--
  Is proffer'd, in the room of one small boon.

  Joanna Baillie

  Soul, Rooms, Favour

  Joanna Baillie (1806). “A series of plays in which it is attempted to delineate the stronger passions of the mind: each passion being the subject of a tragedy and a comedy”, p.98

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• Persistence is probably the single most common quality of high achievers. They simply refuse to give up. They longer you hang in there, the greater the chance that something will happen in your favor. No matter how hard it seems, the longer you persist the more likely your success.

  Jack Canfield

  Giving Up, Persistence, Quality

  FaceBook post by Jack Canfield from Feb 17, 2013

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• I might be in favor of national healthcare if it required all Democrats to get their heads examined.

  Ann Coulter

  Might, Healthcare, Democrat

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• Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

  Brendan Gill

  Life, Motivational, Spiritual

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