Top 100 Quotes About Favors
#1. There's actually a lot of evidence in primates and other animals that they return favors.
Frans De Waal
#2. The truth has no form, you know. It's not like walking around trying to actually ask for favors and to be acknowledged, it is what it is.
Chuck D
#3. Houses of Congress have ... requested me to recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging, with grateful hearts, the many signal favors of Almighty God.
George Washington
#4. We are doing ourselves no favors when we look to the crowd to tell us where we are.
Erin Loechner
#5. Be thankful for the smallest blessing and you will deserve to receive greater. Value the least gifts no less than the greatest, and simple graces as especial favors. If you remember the dignity of the Giver, no gift will seem small or mean.
Thomas A Kempis
#6. Thermodynamics, correctly interpreted, does not just allow Darwinian evolution; it favors it.
Ludwig Boltzmann
#7. We do our friends no favors by pretending not to notice flaws in their work, especially when those who are not their friends are bound to notice these same flaws.
Sam Harris
#8. I ask no favors for my sex, I surrender not our claim to equality. All I ask of our brethren is that they will take their feet from off our necks, and permit us to stand upright on the ground which God has designed us to occupy.
Sarah Moore Grimke
#10. Not a mindless relinquishing of physical dignity in exchange for favors or pleasure, but an intentional vulnerability far more dangerous and lasting.
Grace Burrowes
#11. If a warrior wants to pay back for all the favors he has received, and he has no one in particular to address his payment to, he can address it to the spirit of man, That's always a very small account, and whatever one puts in it is more than enough.
Carlos Castaneda
#12. Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#13. The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we'll ever get paid back appropriately.
Seth Godin
#14. We must reign in overspending by ridding government of outmoded programs, making Big Oil pay their fair share, repealing massive tax breaks for corporations that ship jobs overseas, and enacting a tax code that no longer favors millionaires and billionaires.
Paul Tonko
#17. The adultery book says to say affirmations of some sort each day, about yourself or your marriage. The wife doesn't like the ones that are suggested so she makes up her own.
Nerves of Steel
No favors for fuckers
Jenny Offill
#18. How will you know a good farmer when you meet him? He will not ask you for any favors.
Jane Smiley
#19. That which occasions so many mistakes in the computations of men, when they expect return for favors, is that the giver's pride and the receiver's cannot agree upon the value of the kindness done.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#20. The Law of Serendipity: Lady Luck favors the one who tries
Barbara Oakley
#22. How could one doubt that the order in which one was picked for the softball team was anything but concurrent with the order in which Life would be handing out favors?
Lucy Grealy
#23. Remember, the web isn't about control. If a visitor to your site is familiar with using a browser's native form doodad, you won't be doing them any favors if you override the browser functionality with your own widget, even if you think your widget looks better.
Jeremy Keith
#24. This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.
Amelia Barr
#25. Luck favors the bold. Leaders must fearlessly exploit the Secret of Decisiveness. Act boldly at critical moments.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
#26. I was able to lean on people for favors and things to help out because their budget was so low. It was half of what John Travolta's perk package is on a film. Our whole budget was half of what his staff makes on a film.
James Woods
#27. When you have done men favors, when you look out for others so they can prosper, they owe you. With each favor, you become stronger, more supported. It is a law of nature." "Yes?
Mark T. Sullivan
#28. How many gifts and graces You have given me! How many favors You have fed me from your hand! I look for your love in all directions, then suddenly its blessing burns in me.
Rabia Basri
#29. To end cronyism we must end government's ability to dole out favors and rig the market.
Charles Koch
#30. Sadly for my wedding plans, I learned that Nestor is a bardash. I envy the men who enjoy his favors. He has always treated me with friendship which I now value more than my old romantic feelings.
Tamora Pierce
#31. In the midst of the affliction He counsels, strengthens confirms, nourishes, and favors us ... More over, when we have repented, He instantly remits the sins as well as the punishments. In the same manner parents ought to handle their children.
Martin Luther
#32. Fortune favors the bold, though statistics favor the cautious.
Patrick Weekes
#33. I'm so not interested in producing, other than doing my own work, producing my own films. I only do it as favors, for other people to get their films made.
Alexander Payne
#34. There are those who believe a liberal or a conservative bias permeates the media. I don't. The operative press bias is one that favors conflict, not ideology, and it is lashed by a market-driven bias to boost ratings or circulation with more wow stories, more sizzle.
Ken Auletta
#35. Gifts are not favors. If you expect something in return, it's not a gift.
Seth Godin
#36. Inside each of us there is a marvelous compass which greatly favors life, freedom and vitality.
Bryant McGill
#37. We try it practically every time it comes up, be it amnesty, be it any other issue they want. We try and it gets us nowhere, and it doesn't get us any favors among left-wing-inclined voters, either.
Rush Limbaugh
#38. Windows favors multi-threading, which means that a service is implemented by one single process.
Wietse Venema
#39. Chance favors the well prepared. The more stuff you throw in, the more chances you have of looking like, 'I did that.'
Mitchell Hurwitz
#40. I have the biggest sweet tooth! You name it, I will eat it. My all-time favorite is my mother's butter cake. Every time I go home, my mom will already have the cake made because I love it so much. This makes my siblings mad because they think she favors me. I don't care because she probably does!
Michael Strahan
#41. I mean that a party can't be anything other than a distributor of favors in exchange for support, ideals are part of the furniture.
Elena Ferrante
#42. If you feel that favors can be returned then you are wrong, no matter how ever big or small it is, it can never be returned. Favor is always for lifetime ...
Honeya
#43. The acknowledgment of and gratitude for favors and gifts received is loved and esteemed in Heaven and on earth.
Ignatius Of Loyola
#44. Kindness is going out of your way to perform favors regarded as wonderful by the recipient.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#46. Notice that, in making ourselves available, we are not doing God any favors. We give ourselves for God's use to benefit creation, not to benefit God.
Miroslav Volf
#48. As with any relationship, the market favors those who give more value than they ask for.
Leslie Bradshaw
#49. Venus favors the bold.
Ovid
#50. The memory of past favors is like a rainbow, bright, vivid, and beautiful; but it soon fades away. The in memory of injuries is engraved on the heart, and remains forever.
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
#51. But this was not a time for begging favors from the moon. Not now. She could not rush and neither could she be delayed. Some things were simply too important.
Patrick Rothfuss
#52. I don't like favors; they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I'd rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent.
Louisa May Alcott
#53. In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.
Alan Greenspan
#54. In our unlucky times, it is a great comfort to think that luck favors only the bad guys or the dull!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#56. He missed the prayers but he thought it would be unfair and hypocritical to say them and he did not wish to ask any favors or for any different treatment than all the men were receiving.
Ernest Hemingway,
#57. There is a strong sentiment within the Tea Party that favors a stronger America on the global stage, and with that comes a strong alliance with the State of Israel.
Adam Hasner
#58. Visualize what you want out of life and think big. Don't feel undeserving. We're all deserving of living our dreams - some of us realize it and some don't. You're not doing anyone any favors by living small. Embrace these truths and step up. The world is waiting.
Jillian Michaels
#59. Don't associate with evil men; don't long for their favors and gifts. Their kindness is a trick; they want to use you as their pawn. The delicious food they serve will turn sour in your stomach, and you will vomit it and have to take back your words of appreciation for their "kindness.
Anonymous
#60. When you find Fortune favorable, stride boldly forward, for she favors the bold, and being a woman, the young.
Baltasar Gracian
#61. Fortune favors the one who wanted to chang his life.
Pintu Shaw
#63. Love seizes us suddenly, without giving warning, and our disposition or our weakness favors the surprise; one look, one glance, from the fair fixes and determines us.
Jean De La Bruyere
#64. As the resident dude, Shane was responsible for the acquisition of party favors, like glow-in-the-dark necklaces and drinks. Non-alcoholic drinks for Claire, of course, because I am a stern house mother even if I suck as a role model.
Rachel Caine
#65. God himself favors the brave.
Ovid
#66. Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call; She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all .
Alexander Pope
#68. Glory is sometimes a low courtesan who on the road entices many who did not think of her. They are astonished to obtain favors without having done anything to deserve them.
Michel, 14th Prince Of Ligne
#69. A nation cannot prosper long when it favors only the prosperous.
Barack Obama
#70. Louis Pasteur said, 'Chance favors the prepared mind.' If you're really engaged in the writing, you'll work yourself out of whatever jam you find yourself in.
Michael Chabon
#71. By suppressing differences and peculiarities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death
Octavio Paz
#72. Swimming, Freud favors the breaststroke, to keep his beard dry.
Peter D. Kramer
#73. The idea that the Internet favors the oppressed rather than the oppressor is marred by what I call cyber-utopianism: a naive belief in the emancipatory nature of online communication that rests on a stubborn refusal to admit its downside.
Evgeny Morozov
#74. If a group believes God favors them because of their particularly true doctrine, ways of worship, and ethical behavior, their attitude toward those without these things can be hostile.
Timothy Keller
#75. If you feel trapped quit thinking about the trap and start thinking about your value. Life favors value. Value is your way out.
Bryant McGill
#76. Be beholden to no one, he had said. Make sure you owe nobody any favors.
John Flanagan
#77. Jason talking about Michael -
"Don't do me any favors, Glass Ass," Jason snapped.
Rachel Caine
#78. Self-love is even deceived by self-love, because by looking out for our own interests and disregarding those of other people, we lose the advantage that comes with the exchange of favors.
Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...
#79. If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond.
Ausonius
#80. In this context, the church supports and favors every effort today to seek the full development of the personality of all human beings, and to promote their fundamental rights, their dignity and liberty.
Claudio Hummes
#81. God sure hadn't done His menfolk any favors when He's made women such a puzzlement.
Regina Jennings
#82. In You Are Not Dead Wendy Xu breaks all the old rules that have never done us any favors anyway. She writes beautifully, noticing who we are, and letting us see ourselves with a little more humanity, a little more humor, a little more humility. I'm happy to have read this book.
James Tate
#83. Fortune favors the brave.
Terence
#84. The C-4 really did look like a stick of butter, neatly wrapped in brown paper. So did the next brick she took from her trunk. And the next. "How much did you get?" I asked. She shrugged with a smile. "I called in some favors. Figured we might as well go all out on the shock and awe.
Craig Schaefer
#86. The simplest fix for better grilling is to line the inside of your barbecue with tin foil. It dramatically affects how evenly the heat is distributed. That crusty black hibachi or Weber grill is doing your food no favors.
Nathan Myhrvold
#87. Strong personal relationships are characterised by an ability and willingness to do each other favors. Strive to put family first, then your social circle, and back off on efforts to be a social media superstar.
Mark Sisson
#88. I leaned my forehead against his. I will repay you in unspeakable physical favors if you can erase any trace of this party from my memory.
Molly Harper
#89. The boasts of men about their conquests would seem hollow since it's the vulnerability of women that fetches them their favors..
BS Murthy
#90. The steam was thicker than expected and surprisingly easy to scoop up. Inside her mouth it swelled twice its original size and then burst into a series of delicate favors: savory cream sauce, then toasted cheese, and finally vanilla ice cream with a tinge of hazelnut.
Paige Britt
#92. Nothing is truly free. Every gift has a price, paid for by someone in coin, favors, expectations or goods.
Things get a little sticky when Life shows up wanting to collect on something you thought was free.
Always ask the price.
Jaime Buckley
#93. There are some favors that can't be bought, and some kindnesses that should only be given freely.
Julianne Donaldson
#94. Audaces fortuna iuvat (latin)- Fortune favors the bold.
Virgil
#95. I always tell my clients to be tough, to be strong. Never weaken yourself. I believe God favors only strong persons.
Mario Teguh
#96. By chance you will say, but chance only favors the mind which is prepared.
Louis Pasteur
#97. What I do want is to be transparent about where I am and how I got here. I don't like the cone of silence - it didn't do me any favors in my 20s or 30s, and I don't see it doing much for other women, either.
Rachel Sklar
#98. Never take your position for granted and never let any favors you receive go to your head.
Robert Greene
#99. The more humanity owes him, the more society denies him. Every door is shut against him, even when he has a right to its being opened: and if he ever obtains justice, it is with much greater difficulty than others obtain favors.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#100. Love is not a tallying of favors, it is a limitless supply given freely.
Kristina Meister
