Favor Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old favor quotes, favor sayings, and favor proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor. Theodore Roosevelt
When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor. Elon Musk
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Chance favors the prepared mind. Louis Pasteur
Friends don't count the cost of favors. Laurell K. Hamilton
No favor can win gratitude from a cat. Jean de la Fontaine
A favor is never so long-lived as a grudge. Lucy Maud Montgomery
No wind favors he who has no destined port. Michel de Montaigne
This is a universe that does not favor the timid. Socrates
Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor. John Churton Collins
Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor. Rumi
One person can bring favor to many during the storm. Beth Moore
The friendship of a great man is a favor of the gods. Napoleon Bonaparte
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors. Francois de la Rochefoucauld
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world. Thomas A. Edison
Fortune does favor the bold and you'll never know what you're capable of if you don't try. Sheryl Sandberg
Fortune and love favor the brave. Ovid
The bird thinks it a favor to give the fish a lift in the air. Rabindranath Tagore
He who boasts of a favor bestowed, would like it back again. Publilius Syrus
Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in. Mark Twain
That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not how to return one. Plautus
It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others. Aristotle
The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings. Thomas Sowell
There is no safety in regaining the favor of an enemy Publilius Syrus
Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them. Livy
If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party. Dag Hammarskjold
Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor. Brian Tracy
The odds will always favor the man with a plan. Ziad K. Abdelnour
To refuse graciously is to confer a favor. Publilius Syrus
The ideal man takes joy in doing favors for others. Aristotle
If you want to make a friend, let someone do you a favor. Benjamin Franklin
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor. Robert Frost
People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo. Max Eastman
We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them. Thucydides
Never forget the favors done for you. Always forget the favors you’ve done for others. Omar Suleiman
If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor. Charles Buxton