Top 42 Quotes About Benefactors
#2. In fact, as a general thing, money-getters are the benefactors of our race.
P.T. Barnum
#3. The political benefactors are considered 'religious' heroes. They have statues and a place in the temple, and sacrifices are made in their honor. In a very real sense they are the 'saviors' and so are treated as such.
Bart D. Ehrman
#4. Back to the painting of the Sistine Chapel, there's always been run-ins between benefactors and artists.
Jon Favreau
#5. No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.
Francis Of Assisi
#6. Cricket cannot afford to throw up meaningless games before its benefactors, which is what spectators and television audiences are.
Harsha Bhogle
#7. Mankind divides itself into two classes,
benefactors and malefactors. The second class is vast; the first a handful.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#8. Those authors into whose hands nature has placed a magic wand, with which they no sooner touch us than we forget the unhappiness in life, than the darkness leaves our soul, and we are reconciled to existence, should be placed among the benefactors of the human race.
Denis Diderot
#9. There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
Lara St. John
#10. Gratitude is the praise we offer God: for teachers kind, benefactors never to be forgotten, for all who have advantaged me, by writings, sermons, converse, prayers, examples, for all these and all others which I know, which I know not, open, hidden, remembered, and forgotten.
Lancelot Andrewes
#11. You and I are the creators and benefactors of peace. We must reclaim our own responsibility and right to peace. You have the power to change the direction of humanity towards peace.
Ilchi Lee
#12. Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world.
Walter Savage Landor
#13. As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters.
Edward Gibbon
#14. The Buddhist, who thanks no man, who says "Do not flatter your benefactors," but who, in his conviction that every good deed can by no possibility escape its reward, will not deceive the benefactor by pretending that he has done more than he should, is a Transcendentalist.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#15. He who lives upon the fruit of his own labor, escapes the contempt of haughty benefactors.
Saadi
#16. Till the hour when the trump of the Archangel shall sound to announce that Time shall be no more, the name of Lafayette shall stand enrolled upon the annals of our race, high on the list of the pure and disinterested benefactors of mankind.
Marquis De Lafayette
#17. Wicked ones are like fire. Even if pu on hea, they burn only. They do not leave unhurt even their well - wishers and benefactors.
Chanakya
#18. Be grateful to those who refuse your demands. They are your benefactors.
Marty Rubin
#19. Statesmen, men of science, philanthropists, the acknowledged benefactors of their race, might pass away, and yet not leave the void which will be caused by the death of Charles Dickens.
The London Times
#20. People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.
John Betjeman
#21. There aren't many benefactors who don't say, like Satan: All these things will I give you if you bow down and worship me.
Nicolas Chamfort
#22. If Poindexter made a comment to me like that, it would have been in the context of once the authorized program is approved there would be no point in having any of these private benefactors any longer.
Robert M. Gates
#23. So long as mankind shall continue to lavish more praise upon its destroyers than upon its benefactors war shall remain the chief pursuit of ambitious minds.
Edward Gibbon
#24. Throughout my life my greatest benefactors have been my dreams and my travels; very few men, living or dead, have helped me in my struggle.
Nikos Kazantzakis
#25. He that will forget God, will also forget his benefactors.
Elizabeth I
#26. The fire of the forest burns trees to ashes. Even expensive sandalwood tree which is endowed with qualities of cooling and fragrance, cannot escape from burning. In the same way wicked cause harm to their benefactors also.
Chanakya
#27. Money-getters are the benefactors of our race. To them ... are we indebted for our institutions of learning, and of art, our academies, colleges and churches.
P.T. Barnum
#28. Expressing gratitude to our benefactors is a natural form of love. In fact, some people find loving kindness for themselves so hard, they begin their practice with a benefactor. This too is fine. The rule in loving kindness practice is to follow the way that most easily opens your heart.
Jack Kornfield
#29. If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms, for they have not so much madness left in their brains, you have a nation of lovers, of benefactors, of true, great, and able men.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#30. Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors?
Saint Basil
#31. Most benefactors are like unskillful generals who take the city and leave the citadel intact.
Nicolas Chamfort
#32. Who the hell do you think you are?" your darkest interior voices will demand. "It's funny you should ask," you can reply. "I'll tell you who I am: I am a child of God, just like anyone else. I am a constituent of this universe. I have invisible spirit benefactors who believe in me, and who labor
Elizabeth Gilbert
#33. Grateful people are a bore and become obsequious, which causes their benefactors to doubt the wisdom of their choice.
Silvia Tennenbaum
#34. You great benefactors, sprinkle our society with thankfulness. For your own gifts, make yourselves praised:
William Shakespeare
#35. The great benefactors of individuals and of communities are the enlightened educators: the wise-teaching, mental and moral instructors and exemplars of our times.
Dorothea Dix
#36. This idea [standardized time zones] was first advanced and fought for by Sandford Fleming of Canada and Charles F. Dowd of the United States. I mention them chiefly because like so many benefactors of mankind they have been rewarded by total obscurity.
Isaac Asimov
#37. Mindful of not thanking their benefactors, in case, like wights, they took offense, she added, Your kindness is gratefully acknowledged. May your trees be forever fruitful.
Cecilia Dart-Thornton
#38. The incompetent always present thmeselves as experts, the cruel as pious, sinners as devout, usurers as benefactors, the small minded as patriots, the arrogant as humble, the vulgar as elegant, and teh feeble-minded as intellectual.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#39. St. Faith's, as she called her compound, was financed entirely by donations, some from friends abroad and some from admiring Chinese benefactors.
Katherine Paterson
#40. Whoever makes home seem to the young dearer and more happy, is a public benefactor.
Henry Ward Beecher
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