A favor tardily bestowed is no favor; for a favor quickly granted is a more agreeable favor.
If you have God's presence, you have favor. One minute of God's presence can accomplish more than 20 years of your striving.
it was easier to do a friendly thing than it was to stay and be thanked for it.
Fortune favors the prepared.
Forgiveness is a favor we do for ourselves, not a favor we do to the other party.
The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we'll ever get paid back appropriately.
Let it be signified to me through any channelthat the possession of the Floridas would be desirable to the United States, andin sixty days it will be accomplished. . . . penned in the language of truth, and divested of those expressions of servility which would persuade his majesty that we are asking favors and not rights.
My struggle isn't believing my performance can earn God's favor; my struggle is believing my performance can keep God's favor
Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.
I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.
Be patient with yourself. Be gentle with yourself. Know that all things are working in your favor. If you take one step toward the light of Spirit, Spirit will take five steps on your behalf.
A man who has cured himself of all ridiculous prepossessions, and is fully, sincerely, and steadily convinced, from experience as well as philosophy, that the difference of fortune makes less difference in happiness than is vulgarly imagined; such a one does not measure out degrees of esteem according to the rent-rolls of his acquaintance. . . . his internal sentiments are more regulated by the personal characters of men, than by the accidental and capricious favors of fortune.
They have money and position and Ann has none. It's amazing how often you can be right as long as you have those two things working in your favor.
I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?
Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.
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.
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.
Sekhmet crawled onto Ramses's lap and began to purr. 'The creature oozes like a furry slug,' said Ramses, eyeing it without favor.
Reforms often fail because politics favors symbols over substance.
a soldier lives always for the next battle, because he knows that before it arrives impossible changes can occur in his favor.