Quotes about Advantage

What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious.

To an unbelieving person nothing renders service or work for good. He himself is in servitude to all things, and all things turned out for evil to him, because he uses all things in impious way for his own advantage, and not for the glory of God.

In this we see clearly that the Apostle lays down this rule for a Christian life: that all our works should be directed to the advantage of others, since every Christian has such abundance through his faith that all his other works and his whole life remain over and above wherewith to serve and benefit his neighbour of spontaneous goodwill.

Behind every temptation is a divine reward in resisting it; behind every divine opportunity is a reward in taking advantage of it.

But it also crossed my mind that in spite of all, in spite of our fragility and ignorance, we have an incredible advantage over the stars — it is for us that time works, giving us a major opportunity to transform the suffering, aching world into a happy and peaceful one.

If Apple were to grow the iPod into a cell phone with a web browser, Microsoft would be in big trouble.

if the enemy goes undetected and is not exposed, he will gain the advantage by default.

If you make a sale to your neighbor or a purchase from him, you must not take advantage of each other.

If you are wise, you are wise to your own advantage; but if you scoff, you alone will bear the consequences.

For the fates of both men and beasts are the same: As one dies, so dies the other—they all have the same breath. Man has no advantage over the animals, since everything is futile.

What advantage, then, has the wise man over the fool? What gain comes to the poor man who knows how to conduct himself before others?

For wisdom, like money, is a shelter, and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of its owner.