Top 82 Most 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

Most Favorable Quotes #532
#2. Never did a government commence under auspices so favorable, nor ever was success so complete.

James Monroe

Most Favorable Quotes #21302
#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

Most Favorable Quotes #25472
#4. If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.

Winston S. Churchill

Most Favorable Quotes #48005
#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

Most Favorable Quotes #49763
#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

Most Favorable Quotes #64303
#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

Most Favorable Quotes #77665
#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

Most Favorable Quotes #80480
#9. Profound skepticism is favorable to conventions, because it doubts that the criticism of conventions is any truer than they are.

George Santayana

Most Favorable Quotes #93259
#10. Oh, be assured fellow teachers, that there is no time in life so favorable to sound conversion as early childhood.

Theodore L. Cuyler

Most Favorable Quotes #94558
#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

Most Favorable Quotes #114711
#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

Most Favorable Quotes #114873
#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

Most Favorable Quotes #119178
#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

Most Favorable Quotes #121473
#15. Confidence is the sweet spot between arrogance and despair-consisting of positive expectations for favorable outcomes.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Most Favorable Quotes #133066
#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

Most Favorable Quotes #137181
#17. Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.

Norman Vincent Peale

Most Favorable Quotes #142497
#18. Instructions from Jesus will always yield favorable results.

Creflo A. Dollar

Most Favorable Quotes #177136
#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

Most Favorable Quotes #206707
#20. Comfortable (favorable) circumstance 'polishes' one and uncomfortable (unfavorable) circumstances 'moulds' one. What problem do we have with either of the two?

Dada Bhagwan

Most Favorable Quotes #211126
#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

Most Favorable Quotes #220290
#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

Most Favorable Quotes #228418
#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

Most Favorable Quotes #231467
#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

Most Favorable Quotes #237038
#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

Most Favorable Quotes #252400
#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

Most Favorable Quotes #255284
#27. I accept everything which is favorable for the people and the army; for myself, I wish to live in retirement.

Toussaint Louverture

Most Favorable Quotes #264000
#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

Most Favorable Quotes #265654
#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

Most Favorable Quotes #268994
#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

Most Favorable Quotes #269929
#31. Anything you adopt temporarily only begets temporary results, and fluctuating your weight up and down is not lifespan favorable.

Joel Fuhrman

Most Favorable Quotes #277333
#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

Most Favorable Quotes #278985
#33. Kelly was aware that there is one type of favorable bet available to everyone; the stock market.

William Poundstone

Most Favorable Quotes #282474
#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

Most Favorable Quotes #290003
#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

Most Favorable Quotes #300306
#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

Most Favorable Quotes #305549
#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

Most Favorable Quotes #306263
#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

Most Favorable Quotes #310158
#39. Women do not give a very favorable estimate of their appearance

Sunday Adelaja

Most Favorable Quotes #321108
#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

Most Favorable Quotes #321977
#41. He who remains alive, remains alive to write the histories in a light favorable to him and his cause.

R.A. Salvatore

Most Favorable Quotes #331534
#42. Propaganda must not serve the truth, especially as it might bring out something favorable for the opponent.

Adolf Hitler

Most Favorable Quotes #332591
#43. It is neither favorable nor unfavorable, because no one is there to favor it.

Frederick Lenz

Most Favorable Quotes #346345
#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

Most Favorable Quotes #356138
#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

Most Favorable Quotes #356347
#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

Most Favorable Quotes #362143
#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

Most Favorable Quotes #366780
#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

Most Favorable Quotes #370026
#49. I have suggested that scientific progress requires a favorable environment.

Ernest Lawrence

Most Favorable Quotes #373739
#50. Many successful people have found opportunities in failure and adversity that they could not recognize in more favorable circumstances.

Napoleon Hill

Most Favorable Quotes #380903
#51. A mind dominated by positive emotions, becomes a favorable abode for the state of mind known as faith.

Napoleon Hill

Most Favorable Quotes #381020
#52. Opportunity: A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.

Ambrose Bierce

Most Favorable Quotes #394498
#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

Most Favorable Quotes #401749
#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

Most Favorable Quotes #410755
#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

Most Favorable Quotes #410831
#56. One can hardly imagine a more healthful employment, or one more favorable to contemplation and the observation of nature.

Henry David Thoreau

Most Favorable Quotes #419067
#57. There is only one favorable moment in war; talent consists in knowing how to seize it.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Most Favorable Quotes #419701
#58. It's remarkable how quickly a good and favorable wind can sweep away the maddening frustrations of shore living.

Ernest K. Gann

Most Favorable Quotes #422654
#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

Most Favorable Quotes #428494
#60. Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favorable opinion they have formed of themselves.

Aristotle.

Most Favorable Quotes #440949
#61. 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

Most Favorable Quotes #528442
#62. 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

Most Favorable Quotes #534338
#63. He [Newt Gingrich] is the most unpopular politician in America. His favorable rating is only four points higher than the Unabomber.

Al Franken

Most Favorable Quotes #557895
#64. 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

Most Favorable Quotes #583388
#65. Even under the most favorable circumstances no mortal can be asked to seize the truth in its wholeness or at its center.

George Santayana

Most Favorable Quotes #615239
#66. 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

Most Favorable Quotes #707752
#67. 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

Most Favorable Quotes #734489
#68. Human interactions, stimulated as they are by disequilibrium, never achieve balance. In even the most favorable transaction, one party whether he realizes it or not must always come out the worse.

Jack Vance

Most Favorable Quotes #808130
#69. The attitude of the liberal towards society is like that of the gardener who tends a plant and, in order to create the conditions most favorable to its growth, must know as much as possible about its structure and the way it functions.

Friedrich August Von Hayek

Most Favorable Quotes #959132
#70. It's difficult for democracy to function properly under the most favorable circumstances, but it has no chance at all when millions of voters are divorced from objective reality and incapable of understanding what is going on in Washington.

David Harsanyi

Most Favorable Quotes #978229
#71. Has he some psychological antipathy to realism? I am no psychologist, and cannot say. The fact remains that Euwe commits the most inexplicable mistakes in thoroughly favorable positions, and that this weakness has consistently tarnished his record.

Hans Kmoch

Most Favorable Quotes #1305127
#72. You think Christianity is favorable to women? On the contrary. It is the Christian countries that have produced the prostitute and the most vile estimations of women in the world.

Dorothy Richardson

Most Favorable Quotes #1312884
#73. Others died, but it happened in the past,
The season (as all men know) most favorable for death.
Is it possible that I, subject of Yaqub Almansur,
Must die as roses had to die and Aristotle?

Jorge Luis Borges

Most Favorable Quotes #1313920
#74. Amboyna seems to present the most favorable opening. Fifty thousand souls are there perishing without the means of life, and the situation of the island is such that a mission there established might, with the blessing of God, be extended to the neighboring islands in those seas.

Adoniram Judson

Most Favorable Quotes #1323330
#75. Psychology and economics are Stalin's favorable winds. He is also the party 'boss.' But he is, in addition, the Soviet Union's most striking personality.

Louis Fischer

Most Favorable Quotes #1448992
#76. God is favorable to those whom he makes to die by degrees; 'tis the only benefit of old age. The last death will be so much the less painful: it will kill but a quarter of a man or but half a one at most.

Michel De Montaigne

Most Favorable Quotes #1452697
#77. Move your feet in the direction that is most favorable for your living up to your full potential.

Alexandra Stoddard

Most Favorable Quotes #1479685
#78. The quiet hour of prayer is one of the most favorable opportunities

Ole Hallesby

Most Favorable Quotes #1617146
#79. Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Most Favorable Quotes #1643117
#80. Nixon under pressure turned only to reporters from publications already favorable to him; Kennedy, in trouble, turned to those most critical and dubious of him, and if anything tended to take those already for him a bit for granted.

David Halberstam

Most Favorable Quotes #1741808
#81. Even the most favorable outcome of the war will never lead to the decomposition of the main forces of Russia, which is based on millions of Russian ... The latter, even if they break up international treaties, just as quickly re-connect with each other, like pieces of a particle of mercury ...

Otto Von Bismarck

Most Favorable Quotes #1792996
#82. As I don't consider myself exceptional, but simply a storyteller, each of my stories is really a period of my life. Deep down I feel that criticism of my work-which is the most sincere and authentic vision of myself-is unsuitable and immodest, whether it is favorable or unfavorable.

Federico Fellini

Most Favorable Quotes #1840390

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