When you get everything you wanted, I think maybe you do have to be a little grateful for the people who got you there. . . whether or not they thought they were doing you any favors at the time.
Think before you act and then act decisively. Fortune favors the brave.
Gifts are not favors. If you expect something in return, it's not a gift.
A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.
Our going to Washington [The Million Man March] was not to petition government, but to petition our God and Creator, that we may regain His favor and come into a position of power with Him that would allow us to correct our own condition.
The deck is still stacked in favor of those already at the top. And there's something wrong with that. There's something wrong when CEOs make 300 times more than the typical worker.
I'm in favor of sexual encounters.
I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade with each becomes more valuable to the other.
I'm in favor of personal growth as long as it doesn't include malignant tumors.
Great cooking favors the prepared hands.
It is amazing how many people think they are doing blacks a favor by exempting them from standards that others are expected to meet.
I am in favor of reducing all budget items. But the item I don't want to reduce is the pension expenditure because it affects the weakest part of society.
The friendship of a great man is a favor of the gods.
The government built the grid to favor one industry over others. But I don't hear any conservatives screaming about that. Folks don't understand that the elite economic interests that are holding them down are also feeding them a bunch of lies.
Let's have the Union restored as it was, if we can; but if we can't, I'm in favor of the Union as it wasn't.
To say that Reagan teaches us that we should be against amnesty for illegal immigrants is to contradict what Reagan himself stood for - that he was in favor of amnesty.
He who went to the kings to seek favors went away from Allah.
When you forgive, you're not doing God a favor, you are giving yourself the gift of freedom.
Favored stocks underperform the market, while out-of-favor companies outperform the market, but the reappraisal often happens slowly, even glacially.
The scourge of drug trafficking, that favors violence and sows the seeds of suffering and death, requires of society as a whole an act of courage.