Benefit Quotes

“There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“There are better people in the world, do not let the worst do the worst to you, you deserve the best in life.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Withhold a smile only when the smile can hurt someone. Otherwise, let it bloom forth in a riot.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“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, and his triumphs defy the desecration of time and the judgment of history.”
― Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Advice for a Young Investigator

“We do not learn for the benefit of anyone, we learn to unlearn ignorance.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“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.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Fear is not your enemy. It is a powerful source of energy that can be harnessed and used for your benefit.”
― Russ Harris, The Confidence Gap

“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.”
― John Quincy Adams

“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.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream

“The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“[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 spin-off. We do this because we want to understand our role and our place in the universe.”
― Michio Kaku

“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”
― Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own

“This has been a time of trying to figure out:
how much time do we spend maintaining the plans and systems we
have created for ourselves,
tying up the loose ends of the plans we've completed
or abandoned,
and imagining and making plans for what we want and need
in days to come?...

All have promise.
All have residue.
All have costs.
All have benefits.”
― Shellen Lubin

“Compare King William with the philosopher Haeckel. The king is one of the anointed by the most high, as they claim—one upon whose head has been poured the divine petroleum of authority. Compare this king with Haeckel, who towers an intellectual colossus above the crowned mediocrity. Compare George Eliot with Queen Victoria. The Queen is clothed in garments given her by blind fortune and unreasoning chance, while George Eliot wears robes of glory woven in the loom of her own genius.

The world is beginning to pay homage to intellect, to genius, to heart.

We have advanced. We have reaped the benefit of every sublime and heroic self-sacrifice, of every divine and brave act; and we should endeavor to hand the torch to the next generation, having added a little to the intensity and glory of the flame.”
― Robert G. Ingersoll, The Liberty Of Man, Woman And Child

“A glass in style of diamond only gives you beauty, it's not going to be of any other benefit.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“The success of any opportunity is a function of the strength of the person executing it. ”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“In addition, somewhere during the 2000s, taxes were increased to support poor people, which are really good intentions, but it was not beneficial to people such as doctors, since they had to do more work on top of the load of work they would normally have to do just to make a sufficient living. Unlike Stain’s example, this one actually followed the benefit-intention duality, because the person who enforced the taxes did it for the benefit of other people, so, by current philosophical standards, it is moral, but it did not benefit some of the doctors, so there are still some limitations to morality when it comes to benefiting others. A person may intend to benefit others, which is morally right based on the benefit-intention duality, but just because a person may intend to benefit others doesn’t mean they actually benefit others. (A moral action could be unbeneficial to some individuals.)”
― Lucy Carter, The Reformation

“Every story you choose to tell has the potential to make another person’s life better.”
― Steve Multer

“Each of us has the power to positively affect a fellow human being with our story. We might broaden a perspective, open a new door to success, improve someone’s work life, help them through a moment of crisis, or make them bit happier or healthier thanks to our story. Share your dream of a better tomorrow, and invite others to join you in that dream.”
― Steve Multer

“Brothers exist for the benefit of one another.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Corrupt people will never admit that they get benefit from wise people.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“Every opportunity has a different intensity of risks and benefits for different people. Choose the opportunities that fit best in your risk-benefit matrix. ”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“You can't grab every opportunity. Understanding which opportunity to grab and which one to pass is risk management.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“Accepting a wrong opportunity is as risky as refusing a good opportunity. The risk-benefit matrix is a human software that needs to be active all the time, always adjusting to its changing environment.”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“The term -stress- is almost always used to refer to a negative stimulus but increases in cortisol also occur during positive and beneficial experiences, such as mating and exercise. Cortisol serves other functions across the soma, including in energy metabolism. Therefore, accurately interpreting changes in cortisol levels requiere knowledge of context, perception and activity levels.”
― Kimberly A. Plomp, Palaeopathology and Evolutionary Medicine: An Integrated Approach

“They accused you as a mad and magician? So leave them you are not blamed, you did not delinquent the messages of God, mention the God, mentioning of God will benefit the believers.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“It all revolved around me. Everything I did was centered around my life, my goals, my plan, and my agenda. Even when I went to Bible studies or church, I did so in order to acquire new knowledge and friendships that would benefit me, help me do better, and make me feel better about myself. They said a Christian is someone who has deposed themselves from the throne of their lives and placed God there; a Christian is someone who has placed God at the center and the foundation of their lives.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose

“I tried to think and hope for the best, but it didn’t change who I was. It didn’t change my core, my desires, my actions, nor my life, for that matter. Did it matter how many nice thoughts I put out into the universe if I remained a self-centered prick? Did it matter how many “selfless” thoughts and deeds I had if the only reason I performed them was to benefit myself, or gain a better future for myself?”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose

“My sister—Annette—and I lived under her thumb for so long, and we drank the cure because we didn’t know any better. How can you believe that a system is corrupt if you’re raised to live on the benefits that same corruption reaps?”
― Marie Mistry, Pirate Witch

“The blood which it is mixed with water you will not get benefit from it.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih