Your Position Quotes

#1. The next time you find yourself in an argument, rather than defend your position, see if you can see the other point of view first.

Richard Carlson

#2. Companies are always being bought and sold. The markets are always moving; you have to be on top of your position. And in the U.S., the market is never closed for more than three days. The only time the market was ever closed was 9/11. I think it may have been closed the whole week.

Karen Finerman

#3. You cannot of yourself move your arm or alter your position, situation, posture, do to other men good or evil, or effect the least change in the world.

Nicolas Malebranche

#4. What do we have to achieve? Not your position, not your wealth, not all these outward things, but you have to achieve a loving heart.

Nirmala Srivastava

#5. You have to be holy in your position as you are, and I have to be holy in the position that God has put me. So it is nothing extraordinary to be holy. Holiness is not the luxury of the few. Holiness is a simple duty for you and for me. We have been created for that.

Mother Teresa

#6. What is your position at the company? Right back.

Jason McAteer

#7. Often we take personally the slings and arrows of our 'abusers'. But frequently we are merely the interchangeable pawns of their own neurotic dramas. Anyone else in your position would have received the same treatment. There is nothing especially noxious or negatively noteworthy about you.

Brian L. Weiss

#8. You want to grow. To compete effectively - - even if you weren't going to grow, just to maintain your position - - you look at who you're competing with. And everyone you're competing with is changing to get better, sometimes dramatically.

Tim Finchem

#9. Re-position yourself.To change your situation change your position

Ikechukwu Joseph

#10. While making a relation always keep in mind that it has to be end one day,so define your position and limits at the very first to avoid any emotional,social and ethical harm.

Tayyab Nawaz Sulehri

#11. I am the most miserable person who ever lived," he said ... "You are young, and in love," said Primus. "Every young man in your position is the most miserable young man who ever lived.

Neil Gaiman

#12. Leadership is no longer about your position.
It's now more about your passion for excellence and making a difference
You can lead without a title

Robin Sharma

#13. As far as service goes, it can take the form of a million things. To do service, you don't have to be a doctor working in the slums for free, or become a social worker. Your position in life and what you do doesn't matter as much as how you do what you do.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#14. Don't be a pleaser of people just because of the fear of the losing your position. You cease to be a true leader when you do so!

Israelmore Ayivor

#15. Basically, to lead without a title is to derive your power within the organisation not from your position but from your competence, effectiveness, relationships, excellence, innovation and ethics.

Robin S. Sharma

#16. Always remember ... the stronger your position in life, the more enemies you're gonna have .. while friends come and go.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#17. But things move on and by the time you've plotted your position the world around you has changed and you are running -panting- to catch up.

Ahdaf Soueif

#18. In an ideal world, you'd never have to do things that are below your position, but this isn't an ideal world, and it's never going to be.

Sophia Amoruso

#19. Do not always be thinking of attack! Moves that safeguard your position are often far more prudent.

Aron Nimzowitsch

#20. One of the wonderful things about making a film of any genre is that you have dialogue. You can take up a position. If you want to say something about your position, you can just say it. You don't have to spend massive amounts of screen time.

Woody Allen

#21. You can be a fanatical millennialist religious mystic, and you are, in a certain way, not outside of ideology. Your position can be that of perfectly describing the data and nonetheless your point is ideological.

Slavoj Zizek

#22. If at any time your Prince should pretend your position with him is sure, begin from that moment to feel unsure.

Louis L'Amour

#23. Let your family, staff, and friends know that you're still the same person, despite all the publicity and notoriety that accompanies your position.

Donald Rumsfeld

#24. It is much harder to retain your position at the top than to get to the top.

Kirsty Coventry

#25. Remember the following: Never take your position for granted and never let any favors you receive go to your

Robert Greene

#26. Always acknowledge your position in the food chain ... They eat because you grow the food.

Wangechi Mutu

#27. Once you take the time to consider the other person's perspective, you will become sympathetic to his feel ins and ideas. You will be able to authentically and honestly say, I don't blame you for feeling as you do. If I were in your position, I would feel just as you do.

Dale Carnegie

#28. Voice your position in God and you will be surrounded by all the
resources of God in the time of trial.

Smith Wigglesworth

#29. It's in despair that you find the sharpest pleasures, particularly when you are most acutely aware of the hopelessness of your position.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#30. If you don't try and explore genres and have freedom of creativity, you're just wasting your position as a pop band.

Adam Anderson

#31. I may not agree with your position, but I will defend to the death your right to concede.

Robert Leland Taylor

#32. People change their opinion according to your position. And both politicians and bureaucrats begin to take you more seriously, as they suddenly feel you have become more important.

Rajeev Shukla

#33. I was to blame for not having pressed my point. I had given in to Authority when I believed I was right. That is another example of How Not To Do Research. I note it here as a warning to the young. If you are sure of your facts, you should defend your position.

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

#34. You should never be so involved with your position/job that when the position is gone your entire self image is gone with it.

Colin Powell

#35. Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.

Thomas A Kempis

#36. Listen, you are no longer a boy. You are forty. When will you learn not to wait for chance but to build on what you have and use each day to consolidate your position? Why have you never been anything more than Tribune? Because your plans always begin with next month.

Thorton Wilder

#37. He said to use your position. He said to play by the rules. He said not to be afraid

Kiera Cass

#38. When you were built to be tall, you will endanger your position if you lower your perspective

T.D. Jakes

#39. The way you move - you orient yourself around him without even thinking about it. When he moves, even a little bit, you adjust your position at the same time. Like magnets ... or gravity. You're like a ... satellite, or something.

Stephenie Meyer

#40. Explore, and explore. Be neither chided nor flattered out of your position of perpetual inquiry. Neither dogmatize or accept another's dogmatism.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#41. When I'm directing or producing, I like to do different kinds of stories. But you have to know what you really like, and when you do, you have to front your position.

Danny DeVito

#42. There's a second life involved. No matter what your position is on abortion or the death penalty, you shouldn't put a pregnant woman to death.

George H. W. Bush

#43. It is God's objective to make your condition line up with your position.

T.D. Jakes

#44. We did a lot of that in drama school: intellectualising and maybe justifying your position. 'I am a thinking actor and I have thought this through' - well, just do it. I much prefer the doing aspect.

Michael Fassbender

#45. Though your position in the hearts of others may change with circumstance, your position in God's heart never changes. You are His beloved!

Alisa Hope Wagner

#46. All men beneath your position covet your station,

Frank Herbert

#47. Of course, the diary helps me as well. 'That wasn't your position on July 7, 1991,' I'll remind Hugh an hour after we've had a fight. I'd have loved to rebut him sooner, but it takes awhile to look these things up.

David Sedaris

#48. Respect your captor, Caecelia. Learn to love your position, Caecelia. Pledge loyalty to Sparta, Caecelia. All hail Queen Caecelia of Sparta!

Sai Marie Johnson

#49. I'm a strong believer in stating your position and not wavering.

Mitt Romney

#50. The secret of success is to try always to improve yourself no matter where you are or what your position. Learn all you can. Don't see how little you can do, but how much you can do.

William Walker Atkinson

#51. One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.

George Allen, Sr.

#52. There is nothing wrong with the lives we lead. Sometimes it's best to just play your position,

Colby Taylor

#53. I don't have problems with my weight, I don't change weight but I think when you're gaining in age your position has to be beautiful.

Carine Roitfeld

#54. There's a difference between us. You think the people of this country exist to provide you with position. I think your position exists to provide those people with freedom. And I go to make sure that they have it

William Wallace

#55. Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.

Colin Powell

#56. I study dead languages for a living," I said. "That's why you hired me. Why should I be up to speed on your line of work? How's your Serbo-Croatian? What's your position on the relationship between Oscan and Marrucinian?" He

Neal Stephenson

#57. Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

Colin Powell

#58. You don't like a particular policy or a particular president? Then argue for your position. Go out there and win an election. Push to change it. But don't break it. Don't break what our predecessors spent over two centuries building. That's not being faithful to what this country's about.

Barack Obama

#59. The level of your faith determines the level of your position in the spiritual world

Sunday Adelaja

#60. If you can't state your position in eight words, you don't have a position.

Seth Godin

#61. You'd rather have a surplus versus a shortage in your position.

Kenneth Lay

#62. If it feels good, enjoy it. If it doesn't, adjust your position until it does.

Amy Lane

#63. Bulls make money and bears make money, but pigs seldom do. When a stock or mutual fund is up 30%, sell one-quarter of your position.

Nancy Dunnan

#64. Your assignment,' he bellowed at Kelly, 'was to make a persuasive argument. Demanding to know whether detractors of your position are on crack is not arguing persuasively.

Meg Cabot

#65. There has been little or no mention of the vast body of law which contradicts your position. I think you owe it to the people whom you address to explain its existence.

Frankie Sue Del Papa

#66. I'm fascinated by how you'll change your position so many times over a lifetime, but really what you're doing is occupying a series of positions on a landscape.

Dylan Moran

#67. It's not easy being number two. As a marketer, you have limited choices - you can pretend you're not defined by the market leader, or, you can embrace your position and go directly after your nemesis.

John Battelle

#68. Neither your position in society, nor power, nor dignity, nor selfishness, nor even personal promotion should enslave you

Sunday Adelaja

#69. SWAT is already on its way. I'll be at your position in about ten minutes. SWAT should arrive in about fifteen to twenty."
[Javier:] "I'll have her by then.

Pamela Clare

#70. When you defend, try not to worry or become upset. Keep your cool and trust your position - it's all you've got.

Pal Benko

#71. You are young and in love, every young man in your position, is the most miserable man who ever lived

Neil Gaiman

#72. Mr. Lundberg: "I asked you for your position on capital punishment."
Student: "Prone.

Kristin Hannah

#73. If you ever find yourself tempted to seek out someone else's opinion on a trade, that's usually a sure sign that you should get out of your position.

Linda Bradford Raschke

#74. Ellison's Theorem: the further right your position, the less telling your satire. A corollary of which is that you can't lampoon anywhere near where you stand, because you'd annihilate your own troops.

Harlan Ellison

#75. One of the secrets to advancing in any job is to make yourself more valuable than what your position calls for.

Idowu Koyenikan

#76. Your majesty, please reconsider," Lord Dudley pleaded. "Your position will be much stronger with your husband as king. The people will see it as a sign of strength - "
She took a deep breath. "They need signs of my strength, not my reliance on the men around me

Cynthia Hand

#77. When you are massively outgunned, you do not fire and give away your position.

Stan Goff

#78. If your position is everywhere, your momentum is zero.

Michael Korda

#79. Do not complain about two things; your job and your position, because you can always change them.

M.F. Moonzajer

#80. By the way, if you do your job on behalf of your country, you have meetings where you put your position forward strongly, and the other side does the same thing. And I've had plenty of meetings in my career that really were heated, people yelling at each other.

Richard Holbrooke

#81. When you feel you cannot continue in your position for another minute, and all that is in human power has been done, that is the moment when the enemy is most exhausted, and when one step forward will give you the fruits of the struggle you have borne

Winston Churchill

#82. God always knows what your position should be at every given moment

Sunday Adelaja

#83. I don't expect everybody to like me. If you try to please everybody, by changing your position and your personality, every time you do that you lose a little bit of yourself.

Nancy Grace

#84. At the bare minimum, you need to be in your position for a year before you ask for a raise or title change.

Sophia Amoruso

#85. The choice of moves should not be made on an exact verdict of the final position, but on whether or not your position has improved or worsened.

Jacob Aagaard

#86. Your position in this household has not changed, and I do not appreciate being spoken to in such a disrespectful manner by the orphan that I accepted into my home."

"Really?" said Cinder. "Would you like me to list all the things I didn't appreciate being done to me today?

Marissa Meyer

#87. Roland studied her a bit more, a tad too intently. "Perhaps you and I shall get to work with each other a bit, Lillian. Your position intrigues me."
She wouldn't mind working with him - but not in the way Roland meant. Her way would include a dagger, a shovel, and an unmarked grave.

Sarah J. Maas

#88. To write well about the elegant world you have to know it and experience it to the depths of your being ... what matters is not whether you love it or hate it, but only to be quite clear about your position regarding it.

Italo Calvino

#89. If you are worried about what others might think and about how your position in the group might be jeopardized, then you will never really create anything.

Robert Greene

#90. You want to be the best at your position. And if people think of me as one of the best ever, that's the ultimate compliment.

Brian Urlacher

#91. Do not disturb yourself with vain curiosity concerning the affairs of others, nor how they conduct themselves, unless your position makes it your duty to do so. - VEN. LOUIS DE BLOIS.

Various

#92. Extremism is so easy. You've got your position, and that's it. It doesn't take much thought. And when you go far enough to the right you meet the same idiots coming around from the left.
(Interview, Time Magazine, February 20, 2005)

Clint Eastwood

#93. To me, it's a heroic attribute to be so committed to a principle that you apply it, not when it's easy, not when it supports your position, not when it protects people you like, but when it defends and protects people that you hate.

Glenn Greenwald

#94. Sometimes altering your position is the right thing. Sometimes it's not.

LL Cool J

#95. No matter your position, circumstances, or opportunities in life, you always have the freedom of mind to choose how you experience, interpret, and, ultimately, shape your world.

Brendon Burchard

#96. I think that if you become a parent, you stop being a child, and your position in relation to your parents changes.

Robert Smith

#97. Just speak very loudly and quickly, and state your position with utter conviction, as the French do, and you'll have a marvelous time!

Julia Child

#98. When your position is one of peace, then you're truly powerful.

Sue Fitzmaurice

#99. In the K.H.L., you're even more patient at your position because the rink is so big, you cannot play that way.

Jaromir Jagr

#100. You must, as an entrepreneur - if that's your position - be doing things that really move the needle.

Nick Woodman