Benefit Quotes
1426 Benefit quotes by 1105 unique authors
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Perhaps the greatest charity comes when we are kind to each other, when we don’t judge or categorize someone else, when we simply give each…
— Marvin J. Ashton
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We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and…
— Anais Nin
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As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.
— Gregory Maguire
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Prayer is a relationship; half the job is mine. If I want transformation, but can't even be bothered to articulate what, exactly, I'm aiming for,…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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I am a firm believer that the Lord sometimes has to short-circuit even our best plans for our benefit.
— Tony Dungy
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Regard man as a mine rich in gems of inestimable value. Education can, alone, cause it to reveal its treasures, and enable mankind to benefit…
— Bahá'u'lláh
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If you have only education and knowledge and a lack of the other side, then you may not be a happy person, but a person…
— Dalai Lama
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We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure…
— Marie Curie
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Men are born to sin…What does matter most, is not that we err, it is that we do benefit from our mistakes, that we are…
— Sharon Kay Penman
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Success is... knowing your purpose in life, growing to reach your maximum potential, and sowing seeds that benefit others.
— John C. Maxwell
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I don't always understand other people's motives. I will repeat that for my own benefit, if you don't mind. I don't always understand other people's…
— Elaine Dundy
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He's lost something, some illusion I used to think was necessary to him. He's come to realize he too is human. Or is this a…
— Margaret Atwood
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I was sorry for her; I was amazed, disgusted at her heartless vanity; I wondered why so much beauty should be given to those who…
— Anne Bronte
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Love chooses to believe the best about people. It gives them the benefit of the doubt. It refuses to fill in the unknowns with negative…
— Stephen Kendrick
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Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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You can tell it any way you want but that's the way it is. I should of done it and I didn’t. And some part…
— Cormac McCarthy
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The rest of the journey passed uneventfully, if you consider it uneventful to ride fifteen miles on horseback through rough country at night, frequently without…
— Diana Gabaldon
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Charity is today a 'political charity.'. . . it means the transformation of a society structured to benefit a few who appropriate to themselves the…
— Gustavo Gutiérrez
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If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women. The world perhaps would laugh at me, and accuse me of…
— Abigail Adams
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I realized that the world did not exist for my benefit. It followed that the ratio of pleasant and unpleasant things around me would not…
— Banana Yoshimoto
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[W]here other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.
— Jane Austen
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And why are you so firmly, so triumphantly, convinced that only the normal and the positive--in other words, only what is conducive to welfare--is for…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others.
— Ayn Rand
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When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions. You do not have to tell him not to stand…
— Carter G. Woodson
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For you must know, gentlemen, that when the mariner is dosed, he likes to know that he has been dosed: with fifteen grains or even…
— Patrick O'Brian
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