Quotes about benefit

Israelmore Ayivor - Shaping the dream

Two main categories of people are needed in your circle those who give you the necessary support to accomplish your dreams and those who become beneficiaries of what you achieve.

Dada Bhagwan -

If you do darshan (worship) of the one who has both stillness in his eyes and chit prasannta (blissful state of chit) you gain benefit.

Israelmore Ayivor - Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts

Every talent God has hidden in you is not for your own consumption they are for other people’s liberation.

Herbert Spencer -

Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.

Ralph Waldo Emerson -

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

Israelmore Ayivor - The Great Hand Book of Quotes

It’s is not a surprising news that manna should fall from heaven in these days. But this manna will fall for those who cultivated manna farms on the clouds above! He who sow will reap isn't it?

Bryant McGill - Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

Sometimes the pain is a startling breach that hobbles your entire soul dreadful losses that rupture your perceived reality. Pain so visceral and unrelenting that even death itself can begin to look like a welcomed and kind benefactor.

Criss Jami - Killosophy

The young are often savvy in the cultural world but not so much the intellectual the old the intellectual but not so much the cultural. But I tell you those who do the most damage during an era are very much aware of both.

Michael Bassey Johnson -

The only benefit a woman can have in talking too much is defeating a man who troubles her too much.

Sunday Adelaja -

Discipline is when we postpone the pleasure of today for the benefit of tomorrow.

M.F. Moonzajer -

Right is what benefits a nation, even if it is against the will of the people.

L.H. -

Hate the sin, love the sinner.” (Gandhi) - Restrict the damager and make selfish actions unworthy together, but let them know that its not hatred. Help another to have a better life and all have a benefit.

Frédéric Joliot-Curie -

It is because I know all that science can bring to the world that I shall continue my efforts to ensure that it contributes to the happiness of all men, whether they be white, black, or yellow, and not to their annihilation in the name of some divine mission or other.

Joseph Lewis - An Atheist Manifesto

You are to make up your mind whether it is to be God or man. Whether you are to be free or a slave. Whether it is to be progress or stagnation.As long as man loves a phantom in the sky more than he loves his fellow man, there will never be peace upon this earth; so long as man worships a Tyrant as the "Fatherhood of God," there will never be a "Brotherhood of Man."You must make the choice, you must come to the decision. Is it to be God or Man? Churches or Homes—preparation for death or happiness

Avina Celeste -

When you are angry you will find that you have lost yourself. You have lost yourself to outside forces. Your actions are no longer seeking to benefit your life. You must center yourself, allow yourself to calm down and postpone the making of decisions to a time when you have stabilized.

Garth Nix - Shade's Children

If an action must be taken that will benefit the majority at the cost of the minority, is it morally indefensible? If an action taken for the benefit of a majority occurs at the expense of a minority, is it moral action?

Joseph Lewis - An Atheist Manifesto

The Biblical writers not only had no knowledge of these things, but they had a perverted concept of life and the universe. Their concept was that man was a victim of blood pollution and his only salvation was by a blood atonement.I remember once seeing a small pamphlet entitled, 'What the Bible Teaches about Morality.' On opening the little booklet, it was discovered to be nothing but blank pages! Another such pamphlet might very appropriately be published entitled, 'What the Bible Reveals about

Mokokoma Mokhonoana - The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism

The pleasure or the benefit that the object of our deed derives from it is every now and then greater or even more important than the one we derive from the deed.

Vera Nazarian - The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

Withhold a smile only when the smile can hurt someone. Otherwise, let it bloom forth in a riot.

Bernardino Ramazzini -

Not only in antiquity but in our own times also laws have been passed...to secure good conditions for workers; so it is right that the art of medicine should contribute its portion for the benefit and relief of those for whom the law has shown such foresight...[We] ought to show peculiar zeal...in taking precautions for their safety. I for one have done all that lay in my power, and have not thought it beneath me to step into workshops of the meaner sort now and again and study the obscure opera

Max Stirner - The Ego and Its Own

But who is this self that is to be renounced and to have no benefit? It seems that *you* yourself are supposed to be it. And for whose benefit is unselfish self-renunciation recommended to you? Again, for *your* benefit and behoof, only through that unselfishness you are procuring your "true benefit." You are to benefit *yourself*, and yet you are not to seek *your* benefit

Israelmore Ayivor - The Great Hand Book of Quotes

Your patriotism is not measured by what your country can do for you. It's all about what you can do for your country for your own benefit and for the benefit of unborn generations!

Henry Clay -

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.

William Howard Taft -

A government is for the benefit of all the people.

Craig D. Lounsbrough -

Can anything be called an achievement if it does not simultaneously enhance the life of someone other than the one who has done the achieving?

Charles Manson -

Animals shouldn’t be hunted and nature shouldn’t be disturbed, even destroyed, to benefit the whims of mankind

Luther Burbank -

I love humanity, which has been a constant delight to me during all my seventy-seven years of life; and I love flowers, trees, animals, and all the works of Nature as they pass before us in time and space. What a joy life is when you have made a close working partnership with Nature, helping her to produce for the benefit of mankind new forms, colors, and perfumes in flowers which were never known before; fruits in form, size, and flavor never before seen on this globe; and grains of enormously

Sunday Adelaja -

That amount of time is to be converted into some products, benefits, goods, services, welfare, ministry, but most of us actually truncate this amount of wealth on daily basis.

Paul Sloane - The Leader's Guide to Lateral Thinking Skills: Unlocking the Creativity and Innovation in You and Your Team

The main benefit of innovation for your organization is not competitive advantage. It is survival.

J.A. Perez -

A person that only looks to benefit from other people, usually ends up alone.

Russ Harris - The Confidence Gap

Fear is not your enemy. It is a powerful source of energy that can be harnessed and used for your benefit.

Pen - 9.5b

Give others the benefit of the doubt. Until they run out of benefit and you run out of doubt.

René Friedrich - Success. Love. Poetry.

Being happy has -huge- advantages. One, you smile more. Training of facial muscles. Automatic! But did you know that the risible muscle, the one that gets the biggest benefit, is part of the stomach muscles? Yes. Stomach training. Up and down.

Ben Hecht -

Criticism can never instruct or benefit you. Its chief effect is that of a telegram with dubious news. Praise leaves no glow behind, for it is a writer's habit to remember nothing good of himself. I have usually forgotten those who have admired my work, and seldom anyone who disliked it. Obviously, this is because praise is never enough and censure always too much.

Benjamin Waterhouse -

I attained a triumph so complete that it is now rare to meet an American with marks of small pox on his face... Benefits are valuable according to their duration and extent... but the benign remedy Vaccination saves millions of lives every century, like the [gift] of the sun, universal and everla

Laura Taylor - Intimate Strangers

I do look for the good in everyone. I also give them a chance to be their best, and I try to cope with my disappointment when they're not

Thiruvalluvar -

A timely benefit, -though thing of little worth,The gift itself, -in excellence transcends the earth

Richelle E. Goodrich - Making Wishes

The actual secret to success: Be a better friend today than you were yesterday.

Criss Jami - Killosophy

One of the biggest contradictions in self-proclaimed open-mindedness is to say that we're all one but when a true bigot comes around tell him we're all different. It's usually the case that neither side is correct. One might have the right to do something, anything, but sure enough, that doesn't mean it's right and a benefit to other people.

Dennis E. Adonis -

A prisoner's shackles would always be a lawyers joy.

Alexander Graham Bell -

The inventor...looks upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve whatever he sees, he wants to benefit the world; he is haunted by an idea.

Cortney S. Warren - Lies We Tell Ourselves: The Psychology of Self-Deception

We would all benefit by shifting our focus from seeing pain as bad to seeing pain as motivation to change.

M.F. Moonzajer - The Journalist: Attack on the Central Intelligence Agency

Any power that doesn’t give you benefit is not a power.

Steven Magee -

I am the common person researching the invisible world for the benefit of the global masses.

Sunday Adelaja -

People must be taught that money is not the most important benefit of work.

Sunday Adelaja -

Nothing you hear or read will be of any benefit to you unless you meditate and digest itdeeply.

Hermann Joseph Muller -

As science is more and more subject to grave misuse as well as to use for human benefit it has also become the scientist's responsibility to become aware of the social relations and applications of his subject, and to exert his influence in such a direction as will result in the best applications of the findings in his own and related fields. Thus he must help in educating the public, in the broad sense, and this means first educating himself, not only in science but in regard to the great issue

Amit Kalantri -

People have struggled for the benefits of others, you can struggle at least for your own benefit.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana - The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism

In some rare cases, a friendship between two people benefits both of them, and what’s more, in some rarer cases, it benefits both of them equally.

J.A. Perez -

Those who would abuse your trust for their own benefit can do it well, but only one time.

Tarun Betala - The Things We Don't Know: How mankind found answers to some of life's most pressing questions.

We ought to, as human beings, have the courage to seek a collective “truth” that benefits our species the most, and to accept that all of our doctrines and beliefs may just be incomplete. That we don’t know it all and that perhaps we never will. That others like us may have something to teach us, and we may have something to contribute to their communities. That communities, types of people, are divisions we’ve created for ourselves. That for all of what we know, the knowledge and wisdom that we

Mokokoma Mokhonoana -

For a sane person to sincerely be happy that someone has succeeded, they have to either be profiting or likely to profit from that person’s success, or be that person.

Santiago Ramón y Cajal - Advice for a Young Investigator

Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all humanity, sometimes to reduce physical effort, sometimes to reduce pain, and sometimes to postpone death, or at least render it more bearable. In contrast, the patriot sacrifices a rather substantial part of humanity for the sake of his own prestige. His statue is always erected on a pedestal of ruins and corpses... In contrast, all humanity crowns a scholar, love forms the pedestal of his statues

Israelmore Ayivor - 101 Keys To Everyday Passion

No amount of blessings can benefit you if you don’t take the first step

Sunday Adelaja -

Your life should be of benefit to others and you should always inspire them

Michael Bassey Johnson -

There are better people in the world, do not let the worst do the worst to you, you deserve the best in life.

Israelmore Ayivor - Become a Better You

Risks may make you win, or they will make you learn. Either of the benefits is worth daring for.

Dada Bhagwan -

Knowledge’ may be there but ‘correctness’ is required along with it. If you have ‘knowledge’ but don’t have the ‘correctness’; you will go to moksha, but others will not gain any benefit!

Eraldo Banovac -

Those who have no knowledge are often willing to occupy influential positions with the aim of acquiring every possible benefit.

Michael Bassey Johnson -

We do not learn for the benefit of anyone, we learn to unlearn ignorance.

John Quincy Adams -

To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is ... the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself and enlarges the sphere of existence.

Sunday Adelaja -

The key to your success on planet earth is to find the field where your gift would be of the highest benefit

Shiv Khera - You Can Win: A Step by Step Tool for Top Achievers

This one phrase, "It is my life, I will do what I want," has done more damage than good. People choose to ignore the spirit and derive the meaning that is convenient to them. Such people have tied this phrase to selfishness and I'm sure that was not the intent. These people forget that we don't live in isolation. What you do affects me and what I do affects you. We are connected. We have to realize that we are sharing this planet and we must learn to behave responsibly. There are two kinds of pe

Suzy Kassem - Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

No one man should be viewed as having more to offer the world than another. We are all equals and every human being has something of value in their composition which makes them unique – just as every country has their own unique resources to share with the world. Never discount somebody based on material wealth, true wealth is what cannot be seen. Never discount a country by their size or resources, while their resources may greatly benefit other lands in need.

James C. Dobson - Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future

As I indicated in an earlier chapter, it is so important to pause and think through some of these basic issues while you are young, before the pressures of job and family become distracting. Everyone must deal with the eternal questions sooner or later. You will benefit, I think, from doing that work now. As I said earlier, whether you are an atheist, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew, a New Ager, an agnostic, or a Christian, the questions confronting the human family are the same. Only the answers wi

Gugu Mona -

Dear young aspiring leader, one day you will be in a position of power. That shouldn't let you enslave nor look down upon others, but aim to influence change for the benefit of future generations.

Neal Shusterman -

does a sick society get so used to its illness that it can't remember being well? what if the memory is too dangerous for the people who like things the way they are?

Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski - The Pith of Life: Aphorisms in Honor of Liberty

Society is a voluntary scheme of mutual benefit. The state is a compulsory scheme of mutual exploitation.

Alex Morritt - Impromptu Scribe

As with all new inventions, there are upsides and downsides. The commercial drone is no exception. But until robust safeguards have been introduced to protect personal privacy from prying eyes in the skies, the true benefits to society of unmanned aerial vehicles will remain unrealised.

Michio Kaku -

[On the practical applications of particle physics research with the Large Hadron Collider.]Sometimes the public says, 'What's in it for Numero Uno? Am I going to get better television reception? Am I going to get better Internet reception?' Well, in some sense, yeah. ... All the wonders of quantum physics were learned basically from looking at atom-smasher technology. ... But let me let you in on a secret: We physicists are not driven to do this because of better color television. ... That's a

John Bruna -

Today is sacred - for it will never come again. What could be more important than living this day with attention and the intention to be of benefit, to the best of your ability, to all you encounter?

Sunday Adelaja - spending time or investing time?

Your dream will only benefit humanity when you make it tangible by living it out.

Sun Tzu - The Art of War

There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.