100 Drawback Quotes
Following is our list of drawback quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about disadvantage.
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Famous Drawback Quotes
Every disadvantage has its advantage. — Johan Cruyff
To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage. — W. Clement Stone
Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. — Arnold Bennett
The disadvantage of having eggs in so many baskets that a lot of eggs do not end up in really attractive baskets, and it is impossible to keep watching all the baskets after the eggs are put in. — Philip Arthur Fisher
Through detriment/disadvantage one becomes smart. — German proverbs
Problems are the price you pay for progress. — Branch Rickey
An inconvenience is an unrecognized opportunity. — Confucius
All the great things in life come with some kind of problem attached. — Danish Proverbs
A small extra gain is generally not worth the substantial risk the deal will break up. — Edward O. Thorp
Risk, things can happen, worry about permanent loss — Howard Marks
Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit. — William Penn
There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain. — Plautus
People will take more risks to avoid a loss than to realize a gain. Make sure your counterpart sees that there is something to lose by inaction. — Chris Voss
A good thing which prevents us from enjoying a greater good is in truth an evil. — Baruch Spinoza
Compete for deals, low returns, slender margin of error — Howard Marks
Short Drawback Quotes
- Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day. — Glen Cook
- San Francisco has only one drawback—‘tis hard to leave. — Rudyard Kipling
- The greatest drawback in making pictures is the fact that film makers have to eat. — Ray Milland
- France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country. — Mark Twain
- Of course, living is another way of killing oneself: its drawback is that it takes so horribly long. — Imre Kertész
- One of the drawbacks of Fame is that one can never escape from it. — Nellie Melba
- The chief drawback with men is that they are too talkative. — Marilyn Monroe
- A full, rich drawing style is a drawback. — Bill Griffith
- As an actor there are no drawbacks. — John Malkovich
- Pull the good out of it and not worry about the drawbacks. — Chris Squire
Drawback Quotes
Rockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks. They fought their way to control by rebate and drawback, bribe and blackmail, espionage and price cutting, by ruthless efficiency of organization. — Ida Tarbell
I know that aiming at perfection has its drawbacks. It makes you go into details that you can avoid but that is the only way you can achieve excellence. So, in that case, being finicky is essential. — J. R. D. Tata
Evaluating the benefits and drawbacks of any relaitonship is your responsibility. You do not have to passively accept what is brought to you. You can choose. — Deborah
The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Jail is a good experience but it has its drawbacks ... all the disadvantages of married life with none of its compensations. — Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack. — Soong May-ling
Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack. — Madame Chiang KaiShek
I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What women in their 40s - I am 39 - lack in gorgeousness, they make up for in wisdom. I love ageing, despite the drawbacks - thinner, drier skin. — Thandie Newton
The worst part of it is you don't know if he's barking at an owl, the moon or a burglar!" "That's one of the drawbacks of a limited vocabulary! — Charles M. Schulz
Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses. — St. Jerome
Disadvantage Quotes
You ultimately judge the civility of a society not by how it treats the rich, the powerful, the protected and the highly esteemed, but by how it treats the poor, the disfavored and the disadvantaged. — Bryan Stevenson
Creativity isn't about the advantage or disadvantage of a specific time or culture. Creativity is something that comes internally from a human being having a genuine mistrust of rules. And that may be the constant. It's almost like there's some rebellion in it. — Paula Scher
Independence, the freedom of a self-governing nation, is in my estimation the highest political good, for which any disadvantage, if need be, and any sacrifice are a cheap price. — Enoch Powell
Derbies are always difficult to play because you have to handle the pressure. There's no advantage or disadvantage for either side. — Jurgen Klopp
Broader social concerns within Muslim communities, such as discrimination, integration, or socio-economic disadvantages, should be treated distinctively and not as part of the counterterrorism agenda, which has been counter-productive. — Maajid Nawaz
We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage. — Albert Camus
The best way to improve the American workforce in the 21st century is to invest in early childhood education, to ensure that even the most disadvantaged children have the opportunity to succeed along side their more advantaged peers — James Heckman
The highest ideal of cure is the rapid, gentle and permanent restoration of health; that is, the lifting and annihilation of the disease in its entire extent in the shortest, most reliable, and least disadvantageous way, according to clearly realizable principles. — Samuel Hahnemann
The buffalo that arrive late will have to drink muddy water and eat dried grass. — Vietnamese Proverbs
One of the disadvantages of almost universal education was the fact that all kinds of persons acquired a familiarity with one's favorite writers. It gave one a curious feeling; it was like seeing a drunken stranger wrapped in one's dressing gown. — Stella Gibbons
About Flaws Quotes
Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it. — Timothy Keller
I've always loved independent women, outspoken women, eccentric women, funny women, flawed women. When someone says about a woman, 'I'm sorry, that's just wrong,' I tend to think she must be doing something right. — Diane Keaton
No one is perfect... absolutely no one. Like precious stones, we have a few flaws, but why focus on that? Focus on what you like about yourself, and that will bring you happiness and peace. — Richard Simmons
I think, generally, the flawed anti-hero is much more interesting than the normal hero, and that's really what we're talking about here as it relates to outlaws or renegades. — Tod Goldberg
Why not provoke some thought and get people talking about things? I like characters that are flawed because we all are. When people break up in a script, you think, Oh, right, there must be tears shed here. But maybe the fact of the matter is that they're both laughing. — Michael Fassbender
I think all women go through periods where we hate this about ourselves, we don't like that. It's great to get to a place where you dismiss anything you're worried about. I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive. — Angelina Jolie
There's nothing in the American dream about character. It's a serious flaw. — Sayings
I think imperfection is beauty. Instead of being insecure about my muscles, I've learned to love them. I don't even think of it as a flaw anymore because it's made me into the athlete that I am. — Aly Raisman
It's not about me. The power is in God, it's in the message and I now realize I need to be vocal about it... God uses flawed people to spread the message of His Son; if He can use me, He can use anybody. Whatever you do in life becomes the platform for your faith. — Jase Robertson
The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates. — David Foster Wallace
People Writing About Drawback
More Drawback Quotes
As far as population size goes, big is no longer important, and it can even be a drawback. In fact, the future belongs more to second-tier cities. Any place can become a world-class center today by finding an area in which it outperforms others, by thinking for the long term, by expanding its competitive abilities and by operating globally. — Charles Landry
Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement... says heaven and earth in one word... speaks of himself and his predicament as though for the first time. It has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time. — Christopher Fry
I find many drawbacks of myself. But, each time when I visit Lourdes, I receive a lesson of reconciliation. When you see ill people or invalids around, you realize that it is a sin to complain! — Mireille Mathieu
For me, the most important thing is the element of chance that is built into a live performance. The very great drawback of recorded sound is the fact that it is always the same. No matter how wonderful a recording is, I know that I couldn't live with it--even of my own music--with the same nuances forever. — Aaron Copland
Young men may enjoy dropping their work at five or six o'clock and slipping into a dress suit for an evening of pleasure; but the habit has certain drawbacks. — Charles M. Schwab
Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men. — Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza
The 'chess machine', by which admiring title he had been known, revealed the great drawback of a machine: it had not sufficient flexibility to adapt itself to altered circumstances. — Max Euwe
Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men. — Baruch Spinoza
Champagne does have one regular drawback: swilled as a regular thing a certain sourness settles in the tummy, and the result is permanent bad breath. Really incurable. — Truman Capote
I always say when you see that old black-and-white footage of the rocket on the launch pad and it falls over and explodes, that's because people had slide rules. Not having the decimal point is a real drawback. You want the decimal point, take it from me. — Bill Nye
Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time. — Christopher Fry
Heaven is going to be like this life, only better. It will be like this life with all its joys and beauties and pleasures, but without the drawbacks - with all the assets but none of the liabilities. — David Berg
One serious drawback about letters is that, in order to get them, one must send some out. When it comes to the mail, I feel it is better to receive than to give. — Joseph Epstein
Growing up in the business you have to grow up very fast - you do have a different type of childhood, that has its benefits and it has its drawbacks. — Jodi Sweetin
A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it. — Mary Augusta Ward
Governmental aid is a drawback rather than an assistance, as, although it may facilitate in the routine of artistic production, it is an impediment to the development of true artistic genius. — John Philip Sousa
This idea that males are physically aggressive and females are not has distinct drawbacks for both sexes. — Katherine Dunn
It is estimated that raising the retirement age to 70 would cut the shortfall by about 36%. But this proposal has some drawbacks. Women and men who have worked jobs that require manual labor all of their lives may not physically be able to do work until they are 70 years old. — Steve Israel
Sometimes things which at the moment may be perceived as obstacles-and actually be obstacles, difficulties, or drawbacks-can in the long run result in some good end which would not have occurred if it had not been for the obstacle. — Steve Allen
I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man. — Pat Paulsen
I have the power of my height. Growing up, it was a total drawback. There was nothing good about it at all. — Allison Janney
Yeah, Quirrell was a great teacher. There was just that minor drawback of him having Lord Voldemort sticking out of the back of his head! — J. K. Rowling
Drawbacks are good when you are on holiday. If the holiday were too good you might not want to go home again. — Katharine Tynan
A victim to certain obscure forms of gout, he was in character neither stupid, nor inhuman, but he suffered from the usual drawbacks of his class, - too much money, and too few ideas. — Mary Augusta Ward
There was the usual dreaminess, I suppose. Also a shyness that caused me - and others - to notice that I could express myself better by writing than by speaking. This is typical of many writers, I think. What is a drawback in childhood is an asset to a literary life. Not being fluent on one’s feet sends one to the page and a habit is born. — Lorrie Moore
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