Position Quotes

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome. (Booker T. Washington)
While money doesn't buy love, it puts you in a great bargaining position. View quote
Christopher Marlowe
Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it. View quote
Colin Powell
War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures. View quote
Ron Paul
In time, we shall be in a position to bestow on South Africa the greatest possible gift-a more human face. View quote
Steve Biko
My men have sometimes failed to take a position, but to defend one, never! View quote
Stonewall Jackson
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included. View quote
Karl Marx
When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, as it will, well, isn't that the best position from which to pray? View quote
Ethel Barrymore
Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place. View quote
Washington Irving
People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy. (John Kenneth Galbraith)
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position. View quote
Leo Buscaglia
We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position. View quote
Mark Twain
On some positions, cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? Conscience asks the question, is it right? There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
A ghost story of which the scene is laid in the twelfth or thirteenth century may succeed in being romantic or poetical: it will never put the reader into the position of saying to himself: "If I'm not careful, something of this kind may happen to me!" View quote
M. R. James
So at a time in which the media give the public everything it wants and desires, maybe art should adopt a much more aggressive attitude towards the public. I myself am very much inclined to take this position. View quote
Thom Mayne
A formally recognized equality does, however, accord the smaller nations a position which they should be able to use increasingly in the interest of humanity as a whole and in the service of the ideal. View quote
Hjalmar Branting
Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity, the humanity (in the Harvard sense) of saying that the universe just happened to happen and that when we're dead we're dead. View quote
John Updike
The essence of spirit, he thought to himself, was to choose the thing which did not better one's position but made it more perilous. That was why the world he knew was poor, for it insisted morality and caution were identical. (Norman Mailer)
Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume. View quote
Gertrude Stein
At first, it was hard to sit down and read the things that people were saying. A lot of people would've worked their way up to this position and would've gotten a thick skin over a few years' time. For me, though, all this happened in a few months. View quote
Carrie Underwood
It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it. View quote
George Washington
I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice, therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects. View quote
Napoleon Hill