Only When It's Convenient Quotes

#1. It's about knowing who you are, what you stand for, and then having the courage to be yourself - in every situation rather than only when it's convenient. It's about being real, consistent, and congruent so who you are on the inside is reflected by the way you perform on the outside.

Robin S. Sharma

#2. There's a difference between interest
and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it
only when it's convenient. When you're committed to something, you
accept no excuses - only results.

Kenneth H. Blanchard

#3. Author Kenneth Blanchard says, "There's a difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in doing something, you do it only when it's convenient. When you're committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results." That's what leaders do. They commit and follow through.

John C. Maxwell

#4. To be cold and incapable of pity is one thing; to have compassion and use it only when it's convenient is nothing less than evil.

Stacey Jay

#5. The truth shouldn't be told only when it's convenient. Honesty must be a way of life.

Frank Sonnenberg

#6. Romans themselves never read silently, but always aloud; they regarded language as speaking and listening, and viewed writing as merely a convenient means of recording communications spoken and heard.

Anonymous

#7. Love is never convenient-and rarely painless

Richard Paul Evans

#8. In a contagious world,we learn to keep our distance. If we get too close to those who are suffering, we might get infected by their pain. It may not be convenient or comfortable. But only when you get close enough to catch their hurt will they be close enough to catch your love.

John Ortberg

#9. Israel has no interest in destroying Hamas; it seeks merely to weaken and isolate it. Hamas gives Israel an out, a convenient villain, someone to blame.

Anonymous

#10. The Time Traveller (for so it will be convenient to speak of him) was expounding a recondite matter to us.

H.G.Wells

#11. And this is a grave responsibility, projected from within each of us, not to settle for the convenient, the shoddy, the conventionally expected, nor the merely safe.

Audre Lorde

#12. The car was invented as a convenient place to sit out traffic jams

Evan Esar

#13. I can honestly say I've never chosen a film because where it's shot is convenient.

Clive Owen

#14. I also felt guilty about the three pens I'd stolen, but only for a second. And since there was no convenient way to give them back, I stole a bottle of ink before I left.

Patrick Rothfuss

#15. Towards that small and ghostly hour, [Mr. Cruncher] rose up from his chair, took a key out of his pocket, opened a locked cupboard, and brought forth a sack, a crowbar of convenient size, a rope and chain, and other fishing tackle of that nature.

Charles Dickens

#16. If we now find ourselves looking down on the cheap and convenient, it is only because we now have better things which are affordable.

Julian Baggini

#17. A true Vor, Miles told himself severely, does not bury his face in his liegewoman's breasts and cry
even if he is at a convenient height for it.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#18. An oath you only keep when it's convenient isn't an oath at all.

Brent Weeks

#19. Life left us all where we were meant to be or where it was convenient to leave us and then forgot us, which is as it should be.

Roberto Bolano

#20. We do not believe that you can be 'half responsible' or pick and choose the convenient areas to be responsible in

Arun Sarin

#21. When it comes to fame, I am in a very convenient position. I live a very normal life.

Clemence Poesy

#22. I would wear the blue overalls of the fieldworker and often wore round, rimless glasses known as Mazzawati teaglasses. I had a car, and I wore a chauffeur's cap with my overalls. The pose of chauffeur was convenient because I could travel under the pretext of driving my master's car.

Nelson Mandela

#23. As convenient as it is for information to come to us, libraries do have a valuable side effect: they force all of the smart people to come together in one place where they can interact with one another.

Neal Stephenson

#24. To be successful is never convenient. The things you have to go through, it's never convenient.

Eric Thomas

#25. When you're serving just because you can, the work is useful and beneficial and good. But you'll stay committed to it only as long as it stays convenient. By contrast, when you're serving in a capacity where you feel called, you'll move heaven and earth if you have to, to see it through.

Riley Banks-Snyder

#26. I hate it when characters know things but only reveal them when it's convenient to the story. I'd never do that. That's cheating.

Simon Toyne

#27. What right did my father have to the details of my life? He squandered his chance to be the protective father. You can't come rushing to the rescue six months later. I wasn't a person to be saved only when it was a convenient time to swoop in.

Tayari Jones

#28. I think if you look all across the country, the so-called Blue Dogs are all gone to kennel. There are no more Blue Dogs, they're called Republicans. People would rather elect consistently conservative Republicans than Blue Dogs, who are only conservative when it's convenient.

Timothy Griffin

#29. The person who does only what he must when he is in the mood or when it's convenient isn't going to be successful.

John C. Maxwell

#30. The desperate need he aroused in her would not be tucked quietly into its corner, there only when it was convenient. It raged and stormed and demanded, as she had always believed love should do.

Lucy Varna

#31. Do the right thing. Not just when it's convenient for you, but all the time. Words to live by.

Jonathan Sadowski

#32. Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.

Ninon De L'Enclos

#33. It is a convenient truth: You go into the humanities to pursue your intellectual passion; and it just so happens, as a by-product, that you emerge as a desired commodity for industry.

Damon Horowitz

#34. We have need to be as sturdy pioneers still as Miles Standish, or Church, or Lovewell. We are to follow on another trail, it is true, but one as convenient for ambushes. What if the Indians are exterminated, are not savages as grim prowling about the clearings today?

Henry David Thoreau

#35. Nothing is ever clear-cut in Bon Temps. What passes for truth is only a convenient lie. What passes for justice is more spilled blood. And what passes for love is never enough ...

Charlaine Harris

#36. No matter how convenient it is for us to reach out to people remotely, sometimes the most important task is to show up in person.

Blake Mycoskie

#37. Well that's convenient, i guess blessings are easier to come by than i thought. maybe i should ask for blessings on my mission against all those who wear white after labor day

Cassandra Clare

#38. Stephan always looked like a model, but he never needed more than ten minutes to get ready. I found it both convenient and infuriating, depending on the time of the month.
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R.K. Lilley

#39. Fame is a very good thing to have in the house, but cash is more convenient.

Louisa May Alcott

#40. Science [is] that wonderfully convenient personification of the opinions, at a certain date, of Professors X, Y, and Z ...

Aldous Huxley

#41. Pigmentation was a quick and convenient way of judging a person. One of us, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., once proposed we instead judge people by the content of their character. He was shot.

Jon Stewart

#42. Hamas is simply continuing all its operations. And Israel will not let this terror operation decide when it's convenient for them and not convenient for them to attack our people.

Benjamin Netanyahu

#43. Do what is right not what is convenient.

Debasish Mridha

#44. If you have to go up unarmed against an angry T rex with a four-digit IQ, it can't hurt to have a trained combat specialist at your side. At the very least, she might be able to fashion a pointy stick from the branch of some convenient tree.

Peter Watts

#45. Simpler theories may be more convenient to work with, but they are not intrinsically more probable than complex ones.

Samir Okasha

#46. Truth must evolve' - how very convenient for liars.

Joyce Carol Oates

#47. Remember that your dominating thoughts attract,
through a definite law of nature, by the shortest and most
convenient route, their physical counterpart. Be careful what
your thoughts dwell upon.

Napoleon Hill

#48. People tend to eat poorly because it's convenient; it's what's around them. But you can make the switch. I think the way to do that is to just make fruits and vegetables as convenient as possible to eat.

Michael Greger

#49. But now I'm beginning to care again - a little - and it hurts - it's really more convenient not to have any hopes and fears.

James Hilton

#50. The universe clearly operates for the benefit of humanity. This can be readily seen from the convenient way the sun comes up in the morning, when people are ready to start the day.

Terry Pratchett

#51. I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this was actually a very convenient myth for the state.

Thom Yorke

#52. There is no permanent absolute unchangeable truth; what we should pursue is the most convenient arrangement of our ideas.

Samuel Butler

#53. I just prefer wood. I like the smell. To me, it's a lot cheaper than electric or gas, and it's more convenient. It's just a better heat to me.

Junior Johnson

#54. It's a great thing to live in a digital age. It's convenient; it's fast.

Loretta Lynch

#55. Well, that's convenient," Puck mused. "I really need to get a few of those things.

Julie Kagawa

#56. They're going to leave me. All I wanted to do was lie in the dry prickly grass with my feet in a ditch forever. I could be a convenient sort of milemarker, I thought. Get to the thief and you know you are halfway to Methana. Where ever Methana might be.

Megan Whalen Turner