Top 301 Favorable Quotes & Sayings

The tendency for politicians to claim credit for favorable news is as natural as flatulence in cows.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

I have suggested that scientific progress requires a favorable environment.

As a developing country, China needs a favorable neighbouring and international environment for its modernisation.

The air of the New World seems favorable to the art of declamation.

Resentment is at work when one so hates somebody for his more favorable circumstances that one is prepared to bear heavy losses if only the hated one might also come to harm. Many of those who attack capitalism know very well that their situation under any other economic system will be less favorable.

People invest in your ability to deliver to them a more favorable future.

There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it.

Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favorable opinion they have formed of themselves.

Oh, be assured, fellow teachers, that there is no time in life so favorable to sound conversion as early childhood.

Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and under all circumstances.

Abstaining is favorable both to the head and the pocket.

You do not convince me. You rationalize your actions and because the result is favorable you become right.

The chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of favorable business conditions.

Confidence is the sweet spot between arrogance and despair-consisting of positive expectations for favorable outcomes.

Instructions from Jesus will always yield favorable results.

I accept everything which is favorable for the people and the army; for myself, I wish to live in retirement.

I am hopeful that the pendulum swings toward seeing immigrants in favorable terms once more.

Lent is a favorable time for letting Christ serve us so that we in turn may become more like Him.

Every condition must be favorable, or I do not work and will not.

There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship.

He is truly a man who will not permit himself to be unduly elated when fortune's breeze is favorable, or cast down when it is adverse.

Opportunity: A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.

He believes that "To persevere is favorable."

Experiencing a massage therapy session is its own best advertisement for changing perceptions. A recent national consumer survey found Americans had overwhelmingly positive feelings about their massage experience. Ninety-four percent express favorable feelings. Fully 85 percent expressed very favorable feelings about their most recent massage, with 37 percent rating it a perfect ten-out-of-ten. What is striking is that there are very few detractors. Most of those who haven't yet received a massage simply haven't felt a need for it

The power of a man increases steadily by continuance in one direction. He becomes acquainted with the resistances and with his own tools; increases his skill and strength and learns the favorable moments and favorable accidents.

Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.

To the person who does not know where he wants to go there is no favorable wind.

It is neither favorable nor unfavorable, because no one is there to favor it.

My perspective on the academic world is very favorable. I did certain kinds of things that I could never have done otherwise.

If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.

America is so large and so diverse that it is overwhelming, but my first impressions are favorable.

Even under the most favorable circumstances no mortal can be asked to seize the truth in its wholeness or at its center.

There is only one favorable moment in war; talent consists in knowing how to seize it.

It takes 500 small details to add up to one favorable impression.

Presidential candidates don't get quite the upward favorable rating surge they used to after their nominating conventions.

Propaganda must not serve the truth, especially as it might bring out something favorable for the opponent.

Faith makes the uplook good, the outlook bright, the inlook favorable, and the future glorious.

If achieving your potential requires favorable judgment by others, you are much less likely to succeed.

Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art.

To obtain an assured favorable response from people, it is better to offer them something for their stomachs instead of their brains.

[Donald Trump's] instincts are way more favorable to the LGBTQ community than any other Republican that was on the stage.

No one deserves his greater natural capacity nor merits a more favorable starting place in society.

If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself.

Violence appears to be most commonly a result of threatened egotism -- that is, highly favorable views of self that are disputed by some person or circumstance. ... violence is perpetrated by a small subset of people with favorable views of themselves. ... Viewed in this light, the societal pursuit of high self-esteem for everyone may literally end up doing considerable harm.

Chaos is favorable to creativity.

Kelly was aware that there is one type of favorable bet available to everyone; the stock market.

Never did a government commence under auspices so favorable, nor ever was success so complete.

It's remarkable how quickly a good and favorable wind can sweep away the maddening frustrations of shore living.

The quiet hour of prayer is one of the most favorable opportunities

When you find Fortune favorable, stride boldly forward, for she favors the bold, and being a woman, the young.

A tax can never be favorable to the public welfare, except by the good use that is made of its proceeds.

You use hypnosis not as a cure but as a means of establishing a favorable climate in which to learn.

If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.

The sole function of Government is to bring about a condition of affairs favorable to the beneficial development of private enterprise.

At certain times in the revolutionary struggle, the difficulties outweigh the favorable conditions and so constitute the principal aspect of the contradiction and the favorable conditions constitute the secondary aspect. But through their efforts the revolutionaries can overcome the difficulties step by step and open up a favorable new situation, thus a difficult situation yields place to a favorable one.

In war there is but one favorable moment; the great art is to seize it!

Many successful people have found opportunities in failure and adversity that they could not recognize in more favorable circumstances.

We can see that immigration has become favorable terrain for the development of Islamism.

Message to Obama: Fighting the Clinton machine won't be as easy as picking up favorable press clips.