Benefit Quotes

#1. There was actually a time when people wanted to give Hitler the benefit of the doubt as to his intentions (in 1935, Winston Churchill thought it possible that Hitler might "go down in history as the man who restored honour and peace of mind to the Great Germanic nation").

Russell Shorto

#2. One benefit of government work? Frequent flyer miles. Seriously, I get bumped up about every flight. Still not as nice as the director's private jet though...

Nathan Edmondson

#3. It was fine to be mocked or disliked on his own terms. But his sexual orientation was such a naked target, unfortified by nonchalance and lacking the benefit of being a persona he'd constructed. Gay Mark wasn't sheddable like Smart-Ass Mark or Bitter-About-the-Move Mark.

Lisa Henry

#4. Wisdom bought with a tremendous price, Jane. You know what William and I suffered. I suppose the benefit to our tumultuous courtship was the trial-by-fire aspect of it all.We learned our lessons via grievous methods, but we did learn them.

Sharon Lathan

#5. If I don't explain or tell some of my experiences, I feel like I'm doing guys a disservice because I know as a younger player, there's things I could benefit from the experience of an older guy.

D'Brickashaw Ferguson

#6. There is not, in a material sense, any benefit to being right about a future you will not experience. But there are intrinsic benefits to constantly probing the possibility that our assumptions about the future might be wrong: humility and wonder.

Chuck Klosterman

#7. what this instruction cannot give is the deepest benefit of any art, be it of making, or of knowing, or of experiencing: which is self-expression and self-discovery.

John Fowles

#8. We oppose the benefit cap. We oppose social cleansing. We will bring the welfare bill down by controlling rents and boosting wages, not by impoverishing families and socially cleansing our communities.

Jeremy Corbyn

#9. Whites are taught to think of their lives as morally neutral, normative, and average, and also ideal, so that when we work to benefit others, this is seen as work that will allow 'them' to be more like 'us'..

Peggy McIntosh

#10. I don,t just want success for my self ,I want my success to benefit others .
Osman Gulum

Osman Gulum

#11. The problem with fantasy is the greatest benefit of fantasy: it prevents us from living in the present moment.

Geneen Roth

#12. As we look out into the Universe and identify the many accidents of physics and astronomy that have worked together to our benefit, it almost seems as if the Universe must in some sense have known that we were coming.

Freeman Dyson

#13. When I was growing up, I was lucky to benefit from a first class education.

Nicola Sturgeon

#14. It's about time we make the well-being of our young people more important than ideology and politics. As a country, we benefit from investing in their future by investing in teen pregnancy prevention.

Jane Fonda

#15. Many exercise forms - aerobic, yoga, weights, walking and more - have been shown to benefit mood.

Andrew Weil

#16. As your faith is strengthened, you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will and that you will flow with them to your great delight and benefit.

Emmanuel Teney

#17. You want to make sure that your purpose is something people can benefit from long after you're gone.

Bob Proctor

#18. Selectors can't please everyone, but I am OK if they are working for the benefit of Indian cricket. It's an administrative decision to appoint a selection committee, and I would like to let them do their job.

Kapil Dev

#19. It was starting to seem to her that being "forward-thinking" too often involved avoiding any kind of thought at all - especially about things that might benefit from a great deal of thinking.

Kristin Cashore

#20. Happiness requires changing yourself and changing your world. It requires pursuing your own goals and fitting in with others. Different people at different times in their lives will benefit from drawing more heavily on one approach or the other.

Jonathan Haidt

#21. We had no idea that this show [Daredevil] would be as popular as it was, but with the benefit of hindsight, one thing I can say is that I think that was a really, really smart move.

Charlie Cox

#22. But the tricks I use are ones that will hopefully benefit the team.

Cristiano Ronaldo

#23. After years of investigating aging populations, researchers' answer to the question of how much is not much. If all you do is walk several times a week, your brain will benefit. Even

John Medina

#24. The benefit of appearing so young is I'm constantly underestimated

Maria V. Snyder

#25. I think people can benefit tremendously from really asking why they're doing certain things,

Elizabeth Holmes

#26. She was also sure that having experienced the act first hand would probably benefit her writing. If anything she should have sex for her job. Yes, she definitely owed it to her readers to go out and have sex.

R.L. Mathewson

#27. While combat efficiency is a primary function of Shaolin Kung Fu, a more immediate and useful benefit in our law-abiding society is attaining radiant health and vitality.

Wong Kiew Kit

#28. Any outfit that can't figure out clean toilets and decent theming on its own can't benefit from my advice.

Cory Doctorow

#29. Someone who lies for you will also lie to you. The occasional benefit your business may gain from a successful deception or concealment is always outweighed by the encouragement it provides to those willing to risk trust for success.

Michael Josephson

#30. 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!

Dada Bhagwan

#31. Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women. As a result, now 96% of our four million borrowers in Grameen Bank are women.

Muhammad Yunus

#32. The more successful the work, the more people will step in to try to influence and manipulate the work for their own benefit.

Michael Gungor

#33. Risks I think are the thing that make life important and everything that you and I do is risk vs. benefit. Is there a risk to sending your kid out? Absolutely. Is there a benefit? It exceeds the risk.

C. Everett Koop

#34. As a result of the current universal benefit, the poverty rate for seniors in America is about 10%. Without the universal benefit, it would be over 50%.

Steve Israel

#35. For the last half of my life I have had the doubtful benefit of a brother whose literary reputation is much greater than my own.

Laurence Housman

#36. The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#37. I suggest that all who listen to my voice would benefit by an examination of the lives of those we sustain as general officers of the Church. You will find some important examples among them and come to know those who have "a perfect heart."

Monte J. Brough

#38. Swapping out the nine-to-five for a more agile, independent working life brings with it one other huge benefit - a channel for self-actualization.

Leah Busque

#39. Many of us are fortunate to be blessed with the ability to succeed - not for our sole benefit, but so we may apply the result of our success to assist others.

Frank McKinney

#40. The benefit of film is that you're shooting something for an intense period of time - and then it's over, and you move on to something else. In TV, you're doing the same thing over and over.

Nat Faxon

#41. It was a wealthy family, and they heard me talk about movies, and they told me I should go into movies. That's the benefit of hanging out with rich people; they have no sense of what is or isn't possible.

Michael Patrick Jann

#42. To Yossarian, the idea of pennants as prizes was absurd. No money went with them, no class privileges. Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.

Joseph Heller

#43. A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime.

Chris Christie

#44. We are all bounded with each other on the basis of our beliefs and values; when we question those values, we are certainly left alone, away from our families, friends and the dear one. And that is a cost benefit analysis we all make and we keep satisfying ourselves with the status quo of situations.

M.F. Moonzajer

#45. Every relationship is a cost benefit calculation; either it is material or spiritual.

M.F. Moonzajer

#46. While it's true that Washington would benefit from more civility, the Senate, behind the scenes, is an extraordinarily collegial institution.

Jon Kyl

#47. If each psychology student could help one patient rather than formatting their thesis every semester, then millions of sufferers would benefit each year.

Maddy Malhotra

#48. Other than the benefit of experience, past accomplishments mean nothing...we're only as good as our next endeavor.

B.J. Bourg

#49. This time we'll hate, alright - but we'll hate the ENEMY - the vicious gang of colored scum attackers and Jewish-Communist traitors - rather than one part of our own people hating another part for the benefit of the Jews and their army of SCUM!

George Lincoln Rockwell

#50. Discover real peace and harmony within yourself, and naturally this will overflow to benefit others.

S. N. Goenka

#51. I like to think I'm generally accessible, but I give readers the benefit of the doubt of being reasonably culturally-literate.

Alonso Duralde

#52. The PC is successful because we're all benefiting from the competition with each other. If Twitter comes along, our games benefit. If Nvidia makes better graphics technology, all the games are going to shine. If we come out with a better game, people are going to buy more PCs.

Gabe Newell

#53. Obviously she's the kind of woman who gives people the benefit of the doubt. I prefer to assume bad stuff first; correct it later.

Heather Day Gilbert

#54. Only a peace between equals can last. Only a peace the very principle of which is equality and a common participation in a common benefit.

Woodrow Wilson

#55. All initiation of force is a violation of someone else's rights, whether initiated by an individual or the state, for the benefit of an individual or group of individuals, even if it's supposed to be for the benefit of another individual or group of individuals.

Ron Paul

#56. It's not a real relationship if you're not spending at least half of it pretending to get along fine for the benefit of other people.' Adam

Nick Spalding

#57. 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?

Garth Nix

#58. If you confer a benefit, never remember it; if you receive one, never forget it.

Chilon Of Sparta

#59. Don't forget: cruciferous vegetables must be chopped, crushed, or chewed well for maximum benefit!

Joel Fuhrman

#60. Feelings take you into uncharted territory from time to time it's true, but you almost always benefit from the journey one way or the other. We tend to think of the rational as a higher order, but it is the emotional that marks our lives.

Merle Shain

#61. God loves every one of us but cannot directly benefit us; he can benefit us only indirectly through each other. For this reason he inspires us with his love

Emanuel Swedenborg

#62. Research is subordinated (not to a long-term social benefit) but to an immediate commercial profit. Currently, disease (not health) is one of the major sources of profit for the pharmaceutical industry, and the doctors are willing agents of those profits.

Pierre Bosquet

#63. Morally, the promise of an impossible "right" to economic security is an infamous attempt to abrogate the concept of rights. It can and does mean only one thing: a promise to enslave the men who produce, for the benefit of those who don't.

Ayn Rand

#64. She has great problems of her own to solve, very grim and perilous problems, and a right solution, if we can attain to it, would largely benefit mankind.

Henry Cabot Lodge

#65. Maybe we benefit from the providence of others more often than we know.

Elizabeth Enright

#66. My happiness has to come from within myself or it is too fragile a thing to be of any use to me and too much of a burden to benefit any of my loved ones.

Mary Balogh

#67. She did love them all. They had found a purpose for her. They had given her something noble to do that would benefit the entire world.

Aaron Starmer

#68. My goal is to be able to provide for myself and not have to worry about the daily expenses. I do want to be able to benefit from my work and make a good living, but I love it so much that I would do it for free.

Jenn Proske

#69. 14) Selfless actions always benefit you more than the recipient.

Scott Hildreth

#70. Very often, I'm part of the deception because the way I play things is that I want you to be able to look back and go, "Oh, my god, I didn't see that at the time, but now it all makes sense," and you want to watch it a second time with the benefit of hindsight.

Lucy Lawless

#71. The difference between perspective and reality is that a person uses their perspective for their benefit and reality through appreciation.

Coco Nicole Estef

#72. We cannot get by Auschwitz. We should not even try, as great as the temptation is, because Auschwitz belongs to us, is branded into our history, and - to our benefit! - has made possible an insight that could be summarized as, 'Now we finally know ourselves.'

Gunter Grass

#73. At times she's so basic, at others so wise it frightens me that I got so far in this world without the benefit of such knowledge.

Diane Keaton

#74. [The Freedom of Information Act is] the Taj Mahal of the Doctrine of Unanticipated Consequences, the Sistine Chapel of Cost-Benefit Analysis Ignored.

Antonin Scalia

#75. He's a politician, Tomas; he looks at every situation as to how it will benefit himself, and cares little of the cost to others." "You

Jan Stryvant

#76. If you're uncertain when life begins, why not give the unborn the benefit of the doubt and oppose abortion?

Jonah Goldberg

#77. Any time someone puts a lock on something you own against your wishes, and doesn't give you the key, they're not doing it for your benefit.

Cory Doctorow

#78. The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Samuel Butler

#79. Yet all attackers benefit from the asymmetric nature of the technology: the defender must build a perfect wall to keep out all intruders, while the offense need find only one chink in the armor through which to attack.

Marc Goodman

#80. In order to benefit fully from the education provided in the Theocratic Ministry School, you, the student, must make a personal effort.

Watch Tower Bible And Tract Society

#81. If you say that a good reputation serves to benefit the neighbor more, I admit that. However, since it should be based on a good life, it is, therefore, preserved by the practice of virtue and not by human intrigue.

Vincent De Paul

#82. Make a list of your current wants and desires. Next to each, put down what benefit or payoff there would be when you achieve it. Look at this list often throughout the day and before retiring at night.

Denis Waitley

#83. I am certain that to preach the wrath of God with a hard heart, a cold lip, a tearless eye, and an unfeeling spirit is to harden men, not benefit them.

Charles Spurgeon

#84. The wise way to benefit humanity is to attend to your own affairs, and thus give other people an opportunity to look after theirs.

Elbert Hubbard

#85. Technology usually provides a series of tradeoffs. Each asset is offset by a deficit ... A major problem occurs when those who suffer from technology's defecits and those who benefit are not the same people.

Donald A. Norman

#86. Keep your own house and its surroundings pure and clean. This hygiene will keep you healthy and benefit your worldly life.

Sathya Sai Baba

#87. The intention to be absolutely truthful and the willingness to put the benefit of all before personal benefit hold the power to change the world.

Ilchi Lee

#88. Some Republicans gave up on winning the African-American vote, looking the other way or trying to benefit politically from racial polarization. I am here today as the Republican chairman to tell you we were wrong.

Ken Mehlman

#89. Politicians are making deals for their benefit. Now we are going to make the deals for the American people.

Donald Trump

#90. President Bush has a record of cutting taxes, has provided a prescription drug benefit for seniors, has upheld the Second Amendment and remains committed to stopping liberal activists judges who are redefining marriage.

Bill Shuster

#91. The Buddha is like space, with no inherent nature; appearing in the world to benefit the living, his features and refinements are like reflections.

Thomas Cleary

#92. We never deceive people to benefit them, for knavery is a compound of wickedness and falsehood.

Jean De La Bruyere

#93. Our hope is that the Lord will intervene in our lives, but if not, we will discover whether our faith is real, or only something we hold onto when it appears to be working for our benefit.

John Bytheway

#94. No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.

Thomas Huxley

#95. As soon as I wake up I pay homage to the Buddha, and I try to prepare my mind to be more altruistic, more compassionate, during the day to come so I can be of benefit to beings. Then I do physical exersice - I walk on a treadmill.

Dalai Lama

#96. Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any; but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#97. The more we take the welfare of others to heart and work for their benefit, the more benefit we derive for ourselves. This is a fact that we can see.

Dalai Lama

#98. At a major label you can start to feel that you're working for them, and that any work you do, you're never going to see any benefit.

Aimee Mann

#99. Are we quick to respond to others' needs? Do we run from problems or face them? Do we talk more about bad news or good news? Do we give people the benefit of the doubt, or do we assume the worst? The

John C. Maxwell

#100. Success is attaining your dream while helping others to benefit from that dream materializing.

Sugar Ray Leonard