Benefit Quotes

The man who has received a benefit ought always to remember it, but he who has granted it ought to forget the fact at once. (Demosthenes)
Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit. View quote
Napoleon Hill
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience. View quote
Henry Miller
There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare. View quote
Sun Tzu
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. View quote
Edmund Burke
Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit. View quote
George Santayana
If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace. View quote
Gaston Bachelard
Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people. View quote
Henry Clay
Marx, as we have seen, solved it by declaring capital to be a different thing from product, and maintaining that it belonged to society and should be seized by society and employed for the benefit of all alike. View quote
Benjamin Tucker
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 science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for humanity. View quote
Marie Curie
Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. (Albert Einstein)
Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit. View quote
Ulrich Beck
The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words. View quote
Cicero
The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Let true Christians then, with becoming earnestness, strive in all things to recommend their profession, and to put to silence the vain scoffs of ignorant objectors. Let them boldly assert the cause of Christ in an age when so many, who bear the name of Christians, are ashamed of Him: and let them consider as devolved on Them the important duty of suspending for a while the fall of their country, and, perhaps, of performing a still more extensive service to society at large; not by busy interference in politics, in which it cannot but be confessed there is much uncertainty; but rather by that sure and radical benefit of restoring the influence of Religion, and of raising the standard of morality. View quote
William Wilberforce
And while we are on the subject of medication you always need to look at risk versus benefit. View quote
Temple Grandin
If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace. View quote
Nhat Hanh
Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent. View quote
Napoleon Hill
I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice, therefore, I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects. View quote
Napoleon Hill
I can imagine no greater disservice to the country than to establish a system of censorship that would deny to the people of a free republic like our own their indisputable right to criticise their own public officials. While exercising the great powers of the office I hold, I would regret in a crisis like the one through which we are now passing to lose the benefit of patriotic and intelligent criticism. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses. (Hippocrates)
Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights. View quote
Thomas Sowell
War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses. View quote
Smedley Butler
Economically, unfair trade will benefit nobody in the long run, as poorer countries will be bled totally dry and will become unable to produce anything. source. View quote
Chris Martin
He plants trees to benefit another generation. View quote
Caecilius Statius