Favorable Quotes

#1. Subsidies and mandates are just two of the privileges that government can bestow on politically connected friends. Others include grants, loans, tax credits, favorable regulations, bailouts, loan guarantees, targeted tax breaks and no-bid contracts.

Charles Koch

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

James Monroe

#3. According to a Pew poll, 49% of young Americans have a favorable view of socialism. What is socialism? it is a system that leads to mass misery, mass impoverishment, and human slaughter. That's what it means. Yet almost half of the young think it's benign.

David Horowitz

#4. If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.

Winston S. Churchill

#5. Nothing is more favorable to the rise of politeness and learning, than a number of neighboring and independent states, connected together by commerce and policy.

David Hume

#6. Fortunate people often have very favorable beginnings and very tragic endings. What matters isn't being applauded when you arrive - for that is common - but being missed when you leave.

Baltasar Gracian

#7. In my experience there is no such thing as luck, my young friend - only highly favorable adjustments of multiple factors to incline events in one's favor.

George Lucas

#8. Entropy is Janus-faced. Its upside surprises are redemptive and favorable to freedom. It is freedom of choice. But the carrier itself requires constant vigilance against entropic noise. Order is not spontaneous, but it is a necessary condition for all the surprises of freedom and opportunity.

George Gilder

#9. Profound skepticism is favorable to conventions, because it doubts that the criticism of conventions is any truer than they are.

George Santayana

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

Theodore L. Cuyler

#11. On May 17, 1933, before the Reichstag, Hitler delivered his "Peace Speech," one of the greatest of his career, a masterpiece of deceptive propaganda that deeply moved the German people and unified them behind him and which made a profound and favorable impression on the outside world.

William L. Shirer

#12. A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.

Orison Swett Marden

#13. For me an unfavorable initial reaction happens fairly often. For some reason the more time that elapses after the film opens, the more favorable the reviews become.

Alain Resnais

#14. You do not export democracy through the Defense Department or the Defense Secretary. You do it through trade agreements, through the Department of Commerce and favorable agreements with our friends and neighbors across the globe.

Stephen F. Lynch

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

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#16. The ceiling is not a good limit;
it prevents you from reaching the sky.
The sky is not a favorable limit;
it hinders you from reaching the stars.
The stars are not an acceptable limit;
they impede you from reaching the edge of the universe.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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

Norman Vincent Peale

#18. Instructions from Jesus will always yield favorable results.

Creflo A. Dollar

#19. I should love to satisfy all, if I possibly can; but in trying to satisfy all, I may be able to satisfy none. I have, therefore, arrived at the conclusion that the best course is to satisfy one's own conscience and leave the world to form its own judgment, favorable or otherwise.

Mahatma Gandhi

#20. Comfortable (favorable) circumstance 'polishes' one and uncomfortable (unfavorable) circumstances 'moulds' one. What problem do we have with either of the two?

Dada Bhagwan

#21. Religion begins by offering magical aid to harassed and bewildered men; it culminates by giving to a people that unity of morals and belief which seems so favorable to statesmanship and art; it ends by fighting suicidally in the lost cause of the past. For

Will Durant

#22. When you are happy with your achievements, you don't curse people and circumstances that were not favorable... You feel superior that despite of the adversities, you won, you achieved, and you conquered.

Girdhar Joshi

#23. A monarch butterfly has top brand recognition, an excellent recall quotient, and highly favorable demographics. Associate your candidate with famous lepidoptera, and use these filmed spots early and often.

Michael Davidow

#24. We are also not what others think of us. Our reputations do not define our true worth. Every person we know has an opinion of us. We drive ourselves crazy wondering what those opinion are and trying to change the ones that aren't favorable.

Toni Sorenson

#25. Occasionally an unsuspecting innocent will stumble into a movie like this and send me an anguished postcard, asking how I could possibly give a favorable review to such trash. My stock response is Ebert's Law, which reads: A movie is not about what it is about. It is about how it is about it.

Roger Ebert

#26. Perhaps never before or since have so many people taken the measure of economic prospects and found them so favorable as in the two days following the Thursday [24th October 1929] disaster.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Toussaint Louverture

#28. Prayer may be elevating if combined with work, and they who labor with head, hands or feet have faith and are generally quite sure of an immediate and favorable reply.

Luther Burbank

#29. Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.

George William Curtis

#30. Leaders can change the tenor of the workplace and create harmony in motion toward a favorable result. So every time you say to your team, "Let's rock and roll," make sure you have already set up the stage to where they can actually perform like rock stars.

Thomas Huynh

#31. Anything you adopt temporarily only begets temporary results, and fluctuating your weight up and down is not lifespan favorable.

Joel Fuhrman

#32. It should be no surprise that when rich men take control of the government, they pass laws that are favorable to themselves. The surprise is that those who are not rich vote for such people, even though they should know from bitter experience that the rich will continue to rip off the rest of us.

Andrew Greeley

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

William Poundstone

#34. I think a lot it was the theology, that the road to Jerusalem runs through Baghdad, that somehow if we broke apart the rejectionist states, like Iraq, then the whole Middle East would reconfigure itself into a more favorable environment for democracy and Israel and us.

Chris Matthews

#35. Natural selection acts solely by accumulating slight successive favorable variations, it can produce no great or sudden modification; it can act only by very short steps.

Charles Darwin

#36. Everyone has the right to work, to free choice, to employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protectior against unemployment.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#37. All times are beautiful for those who maintain joy within them; but there is no happy or favorable time for those with disconsolate or orphaned souls.

Rosalia De Castro

#38. People don't need to be forced to grow. All we need is favorable circumstances: respect, love, honesty, and the space to explore.

Ellen Bass

#39. Women do not give a very favorable estimate of their appearance

Sunday Adelaja

#40. If there's a large move on significant news, either favorable or unfavorable, the stock will usually continue to move in that direction.

Richard Driehaus

#41. He who remains alive, remains alive to write the histories in a light favorable to him and his cause.

R.A. Salvatore

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

Adolf Hitler

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

Frederick Lenz

#44. A happy heart can walk in triumphant indifference through a sea of external trouble; while internal anguish cannot find happiness in the most favorable surroundings.

Hannah Whitall Smith

#45. The wind of God's grace is incessantly blowing. Lazy sailors on the sea of life do not take advantage of it. But the active and strong always keep the sails of their minds unfurled to catch the favorable winds and thus reach their destination very soon.

Mahatma Gandhi

#46. The Chinese government launched China's first 24-hour news channel. And since the channel will only report stories that are favorable to the ruling party, they've decided to call it Fox News.

Conan O'Brien

#47. The sad thing was that Pauline did not really care for clothes and makeup. She merely wanted other women to cast favorable glances her way.

Toni Morrison

#48. The honorable William Penn, late governor of Pennsylvania, was chosen agent to the Court of Britain, and directed to deliver the petition to the King himself and to endeavor by his personal influence to procure a favorable reception to this last address.

Mercy Otis Warren

#49. I have suggested that scientific progress requires a favorable environment.

Ernest Lawrence

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

Napoleon Hill

#51. A mind dominated by positive emotions, becomes a favorable abode for the state of mind known as faith.

Napoleon Hill

#52. Opportunity: A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.

Ambrose Bierce

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

Paul Lansky

#54. Love is often nothing but a favorable exchange between two people who get the most of what they can expect, considering their value on the personality market.

Erich Fromm

#55. I can say when it comes to championships it's a tactical race and normally you don't have a pacesetter who can set a pace for fast times. That is why you see that obviously we fall around 1:43 because that is the most favorable one can run from the front.

David Rudisha

#56. One can hardly imagine a more healthful employment, or one more favorable to contemplation and the observation of nature.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Ernest K. Gann

#59. The shortest route is not the most direct one, but rather the one where the most favorable winds swell our sails:Mthat is the lesson that seafarers teach. Not to abide by this lesson is to be obstinate: here, firmness of character is tainted with stupidity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Aristotle.

#61. Darwin based his theory on generalizations that were strictly empirical. You can go out and see that organisms do vary, that variations are inherited, and that every organism is capable of increasing its numbers in sufficiently favorable circumstances.

George C. Williams

#62. He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favorable hearers.

Richard Hooker

#63. I think you should go to the ball with me." She clutched her fingers. His expression was too genuine, too sure. Her nerves tingled. "Stars," she muttered. "Didn't you already ask me that?" "I'm hoping for a more favorable answer this time. And

Marissa Meyer

#64. Who cannot but see oftentimes how strange the threads of our destiny run? Oft it is only for a moment the favorable instant is presented. We miss it, and months and years are lost.

Johann Ludwig Tieck

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

Jean-Baptiste Say

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

Cary Grant

#67. People infer high self-efficacy from successes achieved through minimal effort on difficult tasks, but they infer low self-efficacy if they had to work hard under favorable conditions to master relatively easy tasks

Albert Bandura

#68. There were a large number of Jews who held more favorable positions than they should have, according to their percentage of the population. Germans should have held those positions.

Otto Ohlendorf

#69. Every intervention of man in the environment around him incurs some risk as to both favorable and unfavorable consequences. Every intervention is taken in the face of partial ignorance as to what its effects will be and involves uncertainty as to the ultimate outcome.

Gilbert F. White

#70. Learn to adjust yourself to the conditions you have to endure, but make a point of trying to alter or correct conditions so that they are most favorable to you.

William Frederick Book

#71. Imprisonment itself, entailing loss of liberty, loss of citizenship, separation from family and loved ones, is punishment enough for most individuals, no matter how favorable the circumstances under which the time is passed.

Mary B. Harris

#72. Well my thoughts on American swimming are that our prospects look favorable, but we may not have as strong a showing in the gold medal count as in previous Olympics. But I am not coaching.

Mark Spitz

#73. He [Newt Gingrich] is the most unpopular politician in America. His favorable rating is only four points higher than the Unabomber.

Al Franken

#74. In the countryside where the communal pattern was least disturbed, the new religion found the ground less favorable. The villagers (pagani) and the heath-dwellers (heathen) clung longest to the ancient cults.

Eric Hoffer

#75. The deaf community is in a favorable position because they have a national theatre and training groups of their own to get them started. Deaf actors have often acquired very valuable skills and experience before they get their break.

Richard Masur

#76. Given courage and ability and a favorable set of circumstances, there is no greater way to [acquire] influence than to be free of personal ambition.

Lorena A. Hickok

#77. There are many fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is yours is the present.

Grenville Kleiser

#78. Repose without stagnation is the state most favorable to happiness. "The great felicity of life," says Seneca, "is to be without perturbations.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#79. Cagey trial lawyers have figured out there's a pretty good likelihood their case - no matter what its merit - will literally get its day in court because of favorable judges.

Dennis Hastert

#80. Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a favorable place for the study; early tuition, love of labor; leisure.

Hippocrates

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

George Santayana

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

Seneca The Elder

#83. Anxiety prepares the organism badly for an ordeal which even under more favorable circumstances would not be an easy thing to bear.

Henryk Sienkiewicz

#84. I suppose history always did have in it a large bit of the perspective of those who wrote it. People tend to make their own truth of what was right loom larger than other truths just as true but somehow less favorable to telling.

Na'ama Yehuda

#85. There are two kinds of reviews: Good ones and bad ones. Within that sliding scale there are two other categories: Favorable and Unfavorable.

Of course, I hope for all Good Reviews that are also Favorable - but how likely is that? If a review isn't favorable, I just hope is well-written.

R.S. Mellette

#86. Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.

Remy De Gourmont

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

Seneca The Younger

#88. He believes that "To persevere is favorable."

Paulo Coelho

#89. I constructed a laboratory in the neighborhood of Pike's Peak. The conditions in the pure air of the Colorado Mountains proved extremely favorable for my experiments, and the results were most gratifying to me.

Nikola Tesla

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

V. Raymond Edman

#91. Dave Rocha is a mature and eminently musical improviser. His sumptuous tone and cafefully chosen notes embody real musical thought. His performance of 'Dear Old Stockholm' at Chez Hanny evoked favorable comparisons to Miles Davis' classic recording.

Frank Hanny

#92. If you would endeavor, like men of courage, to stand in the battle, surely we would feel the favorable assistance of God from heaven. For he who give the us occasion to fight, to the end we may get the victory, is ready to succor those that fight manfully, and do trust in his grace.

Thomas A Kempis

#93. Favorable and unfavorable conditions are part of living but smiling through them all is the Art of Living.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#94. The most favorable moment to seize a man and influence him is when he is alone in the mass. It is at this point that propaganda can be most effective.

Jacques Ellul

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

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#96. Genius has infused itself into nature. It indicates itself by a small excess of good, a small balance in brute facts always favorable to the side of reason.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Pope Francis

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

Joseph Conrad

#99. A delicacy of taste is favorable to love and friendship, by confining our choice to few people, and making us indifferent to the company and conversation of the greater part of men.

David Hume

#100. s ships Phoenix and Rose, in the company of three tenders, cast off their moorings at Staten Island and started up the harbor under full sail, moving swiftly with the favorable wind and a perfect flood tide. Alarm guns sounded in New York. Soldiers

David McCullough