Top 100 Disadvantage Quotes
#1. In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities ... it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood.
G.K. Chesterton
#2. There are many advantages in their being accustomed to the use of arms, and no possible disadvantage.
Joel Barlow
#3. The disadvantage of not being together at same place, not meeting each other personally, not able to talk with each other eye into eye, not able to feel each others touch; makes it difficult for a Long Distance Relationship to work.
Abhijeet Sawant
#4. [ ... ] falling in love with someone beautiful and intelligent and the rest of it, then feeling like a blank twit put you at something of a disadvantage.
Nick Hornby
#5. If you don't get trained for your SATs in America today, you are at a disadvantage. Training is expensive and a lot of kids don't get trained, perhaps. So I also identify with the kid or the person who has grown up in environments like I've grown up in.
Millard Drexler
#6. Unions are at a disadvantage in a company vote because the employees can see that the greatest advocates of unionization are often the malcontents and marginal workers.
James Cook
#7. Don't get consumed by the false idea that being a woman is a disadvantage.
Esra Saydam
#8. Our show is obviously at a disadvantage with any of the other news shows we're competing against. For one thing, we are fake. They are not. So in terms of credibility, we are ... well, oddly enough we're about even.
Jon Stewart
#9. The lesson of the Impressionists is that there are times and places where it is better to be a Big Fish in a Little Pond than a Little Fish in a Big Pond, where the apparent disadvantage of being an outsider in a marginal world turns out not to be a disadvantage at all.
Malcolm Gladwell
#10. The essential disadvantage of the isolated pawn ... lies not in the pawn itself, but in the square in front of the pawn.
Richard Reti
#11. Until we see the 'this- advantage' in the disadvantage we shall always be looking at the disadvantages in life. life does not present us with disadvantages, it gives us 'this- advantages' to take. It is only because of excuses and low courage that we regard 'this advantages' as disadvantages
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#12. Why, you're not crippled, you just have a little defect - hardly noticeable, even! When people have some slight disadvantage like that, they cultivate other things to make up for it - develop charm - and vivacity - and - charm!
Tennessee Williams
#13. Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
William S. Burroughs
#14. There's almost no way of doing importing honestly, because if you do you're at such a disadvantage competitively. So people spend huge amounts of effort getting around stupid laws and not paying taxes.
Esther Dyson
#15. It is unpleasing to represent our affairs to our own disadvantage; yet it is necessary to shew the evils which we desire to be removed.
Samuel Johnson
#16. CD stores have the disadvantage of an expensive inventory, but digital bookshops would need no such thing: they could write copies at the time of sale on to memory sticks, and sell you one if you forgot your own.
Richard Stallman
#17. I always feel like I'm rehearsing. I'm a workaholic. But youve got to let go and trust and enjoy! I'm a real perfectionist. Its probably my biggest disadvantage. But as long as I can go out there, trust in the work and just have fun, thats what matters.
Nicole Scherzinger
#18. Some people might think that what I've done before made it easier for me to get jobs, but it was actually a disadvantage. I had to work even harder.
Kendall Jenner
#19. Now we are seeing the disadvantage of not knowing every language," said Conseil "or is it the disadvantage of not having a universal language?
Jules Verne
#20. The corporate income tax, in particular, is a tax that puts American corporations at a disadvantage.
Ken Buck
#21. The disadvantage with people is that you can't put bookmarks in them and set them aside till you want them again.
Orson Scott Card
#22. Bilbo was tempted to slay him with his sword. But pity stayed him, and though he kept the ring, in which his only hope lay, he would not use it to help him kill the wretched creature at a disadvantage. In
J.R.R. Tolkien
#23. The crucial disadvantage of aggression, competitiveness and skepticism as national characteristics is that these qualities cannot be turned off at five o'clock.
Margaret Halsey
#24. All of us in Quebec - and I mean all of us - have allowed language to become a preoccupation that works to the disadvantage of all of us - and I mean all of us.
Richard Pound
#25. Binoculars, and a hawk-like vigilance, reduce the disadvantage of myopic human vision.
J.A. Baker
#26. The fact is that everything I have in my pockets is carefully chosen so I'll always be prepared. Everything is there so I can be at an advantage at the moment of truth. Actually, that's not accurate. Everything's there so I won't be at a disadvantage at the moment of truth.
Etgar Keret
#27. Before we even consider expanding Medicare, or another program based on its rates, we must reform our Medicare payment system so that it rewards value, not volume, and doesn't disadvantage states like Minnesota that provide high-quality care in an efficient way.
Amy Klobuchar
#28. Boldness will be at a disadvantage only in an encounter with deliberate caution, which may be considered bold in its own right, and is certainly just as powerful and effective; but such cases are rare.
Carl Von Clausewitz
#29. If a company in Australia has to pay tax and the other one doesn't, of course it's a disadvantage.
Gerry Harvey
#30. One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear.
J.B. Morton
#31. Special knowledge is a terrible disadvantage.
Carl Jung
#32. Though virtue give a ragged livery, she gives a golden cognizance; if her service make thee poor, blush not. Thy poverty may disadvantage thee, but not dishonor thee.
Francis Quarles
#33. You ought never to suffer your designs to be crossed in order to avoid war, since war is not so to be avoided, but is only deferred to your disadvantage.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#34. Better it is toward the right conduct of life to consider what will be the end of a thing, than what is the beginning of it: for what promises fair at first may prove ill, and what seems at first a disadvantage, may prove very advantageous.
H.G.Wells
#35. A person who exchanged his reason for genius has no meaning. God is unfair, but only this unfairness is unacceptable. If you add genius as an advantage to madness as a disadvantage, you will get a maximum of disadvantage.
Tooru Hayama
#36. Either God exists or He doesn't. Either I believe in God or I don't. Of the four possibilities, only one is to my disadvantage. To avoid that possibility, I believe in God.
Blaise Pascal
#37. I think we put our children at an enormous disadvantage by not educating them in war, by not letting them understand about it at an early age.
Suzanne Collins
#38. The disadvantage to humor, and where a good leader must be vigilant, is that everyone has a different sense of humor and humor can be used as a weapon to humiliate others.
Jim Korkis
#39. Los Angeles is an industry town, and it has great facilities and personnel. The disadvantage is that everyone there seems to talk about the same subject matter.
Carter Burwell
#40. The great disadvantage of getting older is to be obliged to relive the salient economic events of one's youth, with nothing learned and nothing forgotten.
James Buchan
#41. Frivolous, disconnected, an amateur at everything, I shall have known thoroughly only the disadvantage of having been born.
Emil M. Cioran
#42. Trust Anne to turn a disadvantage into an asset!
Jean Plaidy
#43. There is, in short, no great idea that stupidity could not put to its own uses [ ... ] The truth by comparison, has only one appearance and only one path, and is always at a disadvantage.
Robert Musil
#44. Mutual funds give people the sense that they're investing with the big boys and that they're really not at a disadvantage entering the stock market.
Ron Chernow
#45. I think being an Asian woman has been more of an advantage than a disadvantage. It helps me stand out from the rest of the entertainers out there. Again, being from such an ethnically diverse place like New York, you get comfortable and confident with being different!
Nadia Ali
#46. She was weak and helpless, shaken in mind and nerve. It was to take her at a disadvantage to obtrude love upon her at such a time.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#48. To say anything negative about Stephen Hawking is like bullying a blind man. He has an unfair disadvantage, and that gives him a free pass on some of his absurd ideas.
Kirk Cameron
#49. Masters points out that the heterosexuals were at a disadvantage, as they do not benefit from what he called "gender empathy". Doing unto your partner as you would do unto yourself only works well when you're gay.
Mary Roach
#50. I don't find an advantage or disadvantage in being a woman when reporting. What little advantages there might be in some instances is cancelled out by the basic lack of lavatories round the world for women.
Kate Adie
#51. To write a play one must be born a playwright. Otherwise, you're starting at a huge disadvantage.
Edward Albee
#52. The musician writes for the orchestra what his inner voice sings to him; the painter rarely relies without disadvantage solely upon the images which his inner eye presents to him; nature gives him his forms, study governs his combinations of them.
Hermann Ebbinghaus
#53. Out of labor's struggle in Arizona came better conditions for the workers, who must everywhere, at all times, under advantage and disadvantage work out their own salvation.
Mary Harris Jones
#54. As it has turned out, the whole relationship between men, women and children has tilted, to the disadvantage of women.
Fay Weldon
#55. I wish I wasn't so technically challenged, because it puts you at a distinct disadvantage. I wish I could figure out a way to get more up to speed.
Gayle King
#56. In many countries, laws still work to women's disadvantage - for example, by requiring married women to obtain their husbands' permission to register a business, own property, or work.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
#57. One of the biggest disadvantages of being grown up is seeing the time rush by faster.
Pawan Mishra
#58. Awkwardness is a more real disadvantage than it is generally thought to be; it often occasions ridicule, it always lessens dignity.
Lord Chesterfield
#59. The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#60. Secrecy has this disadvantage: we lose the sense of proportion; we cannot tell whether our secret is important or not.
E. M. Forster
#61. There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#62. I never use hedge funds because I am well aware of what drives future performance, and hedge funds start out with a great disadvantage in every major category: taxes, fees, risk management, transparency and liquidity.
Peter Mallouk
#63. If you can't hear a language, then you are at a severe disadvantage when you're trying to learn it.
Ron Gullekson
#64. We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.
Albert Camus
#65. There is no doubt that the countries that now have a very large debt have not introduced the kind of structural reforms that Germany did and are therefore at a disadvantage. But the problem is that this disadvantage is becoming even more pronounced through the punitive policies in place.
George Soros
#66. One should follow a man of wisdom who rebukes one for one's faults, as one would follow a guide to some buried treasure. To one who follows such a wise man, it will be an advantage and not a disadvantage.
Gautama Buddha
#67. The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, and holds together the incompatible because everyone assumes that if a party splits it will be electorally slaughtered.
Roy Jenkins
#68. Monarchies are above political parties. Sometimes political parties do things that are to the disadvantage of the country because they want to beat the other party. In Iran, where we have different religions and ethnic groups, it was a unifying factor.
Farah Diba
#69. It's physically impossible to be both a dork and gay. It's like saying you're color blind and blind. The universe will only allow so much disadvantage in any one given life-form."~Jordan
Eli Easton
#70. You are not blamed for your unwilling ignorance, but because you fail to ask about what you do not know ... For no one is prevented from leaving behind the disadvantage of ignorance and seeking the advantage of knowledge.
Augustine Of Hippo
#71. Remember that disadvantage is less about income than environment. The best metrics of child poverty aren't monetary, but rather how often a child is read to or hugged.
Nicholas Kristof
#72. While at a biological disadvantage in competitions, women - who even make trips to restaurant bathrooms in pairs - are at a clear advantage when it comes to grouping together and the activities that accompany it: gossiping, sharing, bonding, assisting, scrapbooking, and building networks.
Sandra Tsing Loh
#73. It sometimes is a disadvantage to be so very guarded. If a woman conceals her affection from the object of it, she may loose the opportunity of fixing him.
Jane Austen
#74. While I love musical theater, it wasn't the right fit for me. It's so competitive, and I was at such a disadvantage, having started performing when I was 17.
Jack Falahee
#75. Children without access to quality early education programs start kindergarten with an 18-month disadvantage, and that gap continues to widen. By the time they are in fourth grade, many cannot do math or read at grade level.
Mark Shriver
#76. Do not allow another person to set you back. Continue moving forward not backwards. When someone pulls you back, be like the arrow to a bow and spring forth greater than ever. And, what they thought would be your disadvantage, you turn it into your advantage.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#77. Women, however charming, have this disadvantage: they distract the mind from food!
Agatha Christie
#78. One of the marked characteristics of the U.K. security industry as compared with defence is the lack of company scale. This can put our firms at a competitive disadvantage when it comes to big contracts.
Pauline Neville-Jones
#79. It seems to be a law of design that for every advantage introduced through redesign, there is an accompanying unintended disadvantage.
Henry Petroski
#80. A true gentleman is at a disadvantage in dealing with women. Women are realists, and their tactics are realistic, so no man should be a gentleman where women are concerned unless the women are very, very old or very, very young. Women admire gentlemen, and sleep with cads.
Louis L'Amour
#81. I do a lot of work with the Dyslexia Institute because, for people with dyslexia who do not have parental support, it is a huge disadvantage. I was fortunate because my Mum was a teacher and she taught me to work hard.
Susan Hampshire
#83. Because people who couldn't imagine themselves capable of evil were at a major disadvantage in dealing with people who didn't need to imagine, because they already were.
William Gibson
#84. [Moralistic] novels are at the same disadvantage as teachers: children never believe them, because they make everything that happens relate to the lesson at hand.
Madame De Stael
#85. Nobody owes me anything. I am not at a disadvantage. I am equipped, empowered, and anointed.
Joel Osteen
#86. If your kid doesn't have broadband access, that's a real disadvantage for participating in modern education.
Julius Genachowski
#87. A fool acquires knowledge only to his own disadvantage. It destroys what good he has, and turns his brains.
Gautama Buddha
#88. Don't make your audience play Jeopardy. Giving your answer before asking the question puts your audience at a disadvantage. It will also reveal your biases. Make it clear what question you are trying to answer first. Then allow your audience to engage in answering the question too.
John Fairclough
#89. You probably think I'm at a disadvantage. I promise you, I'm not.
Jack Bauer
#90. Latin America has much richer resources. You'd expect it to be far more advanced than East Asia, but it had the disadvantage of being under imperialist wings.
Noam Chomsky
#91. Larger sums may be an advantage at some cases and a disadvantage at others.
Warren Buffett
#92. IT has been remarked that the peculiarly English habit of self-suppression in matters of the emotions puts the Englishman at a great disadvantage in moments of unusual stresses.
Ford Madox Ford
#93. Much of the world is focused on answers. This unfortunate. Situations change, the earth turns, and our needs fluctuate. Focusing on static answers puts one at a disadvantage. Empower yourself by searching for the right question as if it were a buried treasure and treasures will find you.
John Fairclough
#94. Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
Washington Irving
#95. 80 percent of learning is visual, so children who can't afford vision correction are at such a disadvantage.
Ellen Hollman
#96. Doesn't being over-familiar put you at a disadvantage? A more formal way of speaking doesn't just mean you're being polite, it's also a way of protecting yourself.
Mihail Sebastian
#97. I know that in the battle of ideas, Republican politicians are at a distinct disadvantage. Their fundamental philosophy - which I characterize as survival of the fittest, richest and whitest - is too callous for most Americans.
John Yarmuth
#98. We live in the country, and I have a huge library there. When we go to London for the winter I never know which books to take. I never know what I am going to need. That's the only disadvantage.
Mordecai Richler
#100. Integrity is what you do when no one is watching; its doing the right thing all the time, even when it may work to your disadvantage.
Tony Dungy
