Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing…

I was always an observer, even as a child. I could be satisfied to sit in a car for 3 hours and just look…

— Jonathan Winters

A benefactor is a representative of God.

— Benjamin Whichcote

No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.

— Francis of Assisi

Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself and yourself alone one question.…

— Jack Kornfield

Throughout my life my greatest benefactors have been my travels and my dreams. Very few men, living or dead, have helped me in my…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

I account the office of benefactor, or almoner, to which God appoints all those whom he has favored with wealth, one of the most…

— J. G. Holland

People hired by government know who is their benefactor. People who lose their jobs or fail to get them because of the government program…

— Milton Friedman

He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into the short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the…

— Samuel Johnson

Throughout my life, my greatest benefactors have been my dreams and my travels; very few men, living or dead, have helped me in my…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

When men receive favours from someone they expected to do them ill, they are under a greater obligation to their benefactor...

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Brothers, the white people are like poisonous serpents: when chilled they are feeble and harmless, but invigorate them with warmth and they sting their…

— Tecumseh

Would movie moguls release a film portraying Adolph Hitler as a great benefactor of the Jews? Hardly. Would they release a movie if the…

— Donald Wildmon

Nordenson describes wrestling with work as with a large force that wants to have its way with you, even as you want to have…

— Luci Shaw

Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and comfort, but if we…

— Spencer W. Kimball

I happen to have the benefit of having a son-in-law who was the former Mr. France and a trainer. I like being his benefactor…

— Suzanne Somers