Best Benefits Quotes

I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.

The great benefit of practicing mindfulness…is presence of mind within a storm of emotions.

Dictators free themselves by enslaving others. They work not for your benefit, but their own.

Easy to do are things that are bad and harmful to oneself. But exceedingly difficult to do are things that are good and beneficial.

One of the greatest benefits of the revolution is that even our prostitutes are college graduates.

Anger and hatred cannot bring harmony. The noble task of arms control and disarmament cannot be accomplished by confrontation and condemnation. Hostile attitudes only serve to heat up the situation, whereas a true sense of respect gradually cools down what otherwise could become explosive. We must recognize the frequent contradictions between short-term benefit and long-term harm.

If we develop concern for other people’s welfare, share other people’s suffering, and help them, ultimately we will benefit. If we think only of ourselves and forget about others, ultimately we will lose. The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater our own sense of well-being becomes.

Whatever it is, handle it so that your children’s children will get the benefit of it.

It is wonderful how preposterously the affairs of the world are managed. We assemble parliaments and councils to have the benefit of collected wisdom, but we necessarily have, at the same time, the inconvenience of their collected passions, prejudices and private interests: for regulating commerce an assembly of great men is the greatest fool on earth

Technology is always a two-edged sword. It will bring in many benefits, but also many disasters.

The chess player who develops the ability to play two dozen boards at a time will benefit from learning to compress his or her analysis into less time.

There is nothing that politicians like better than handing out benefits to be paid for by someone else.

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

Publicity, discussion, and agitation are necessary to accomplish any work of lasting benefit.

Ever since there have been people, there have been explorers, looking in places where other hadn’t been before. Not everyone does it, but we are part of a species where some members of the species do, to the benefit of us all.

When you think about the abolition of slavery for example, for the ruling class with the rich white people owning plantations and states, and things like that, slavery was to their benefit. To oppose it didn’t make any sense at all on a rational basis. But on a rights basis, on a principle basis, it made obvious, overwhelming sense.

I am convinced that human nature is basically affectionate and good. If our behavior follows our kind and loving nature, immense benefits will result, not only for ourselves, but also for the society to which we belong. I generally refer to this sort of love and affection as a universal religion. Everyone needs it, believers as much as non-believers. This attitude constitutes the very basis of morality.

He who has conferred a benefit on anyone from motives of love or honor will feel pain, if he sees that the benefit is received without gratitude.

It is no small benefit on finding oneself in bed in the dark to go over again in the imagination the main lines of the forms previously studied, or other noteworthy things conceived by ingenious speculation.

The context of the gospel message is not our benefit or our salvation; the context of the gospel is the supremacy of Christ and the glory of God.

Value equals benefits received for burdens endured.

Nine holes of golf will take you one-and-a-half, two hours. I run in 20 minutes, I feel better off. So the cost benefit made me drop golf.

Let us not only scatter benefits, but even strew flowers for our fellow-travellers, in the rugged ways of this wretched world.

I’m going to give people the benefit of the doubt.

That which works is authentic. It’s a practical truth. What really matters is that we find benefit, regardless of whether it’s an ancient traditional approach or some new version, popular or obscure.

The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated.

If the members of parliament no longer consider themselves mandatories of the taxpayers but deputies of those receiving salaries, wages, subsidies, doles, and other benefits from the treasury, democracy is done for.

I find it profoundly symbolic that I am appearing before a committee of fifteen men who will report to a legislative body of one hundred men because of a decision handed down by a court comprised of nine men–on an issue that affects millions of women…. I have the feeling that if men could get pregnant, we wouldn’t be struggling for this legislation. If men could get pregnant, maternity benefits would be as sacrosanct as the G.I. Bill.

I meditate on a regular basis and reap benefits from this practice

The right to have our environment protected for the benefit of present and future generations is our most important human right.

Benefit your friends; make sure your enemies suffer from being your enemies.

I think the biggest reason otherwise radical people don’t want to face the necessity of ending industrial civilization is privilege. We’re the ones reaping the benefits. We’ve sold out the rest of life on earth for convenience, creature comforts, and cheap consumer goods, and it’s appalling. I’m sickened by this bargain.

I don’t say that I won’t do nudity for other people’s benefit. It has nothing to do with other people’s, it’s just what I’m comfortable with. I can’t say this enough, I’m totally comfortable with my body. I like my body, I don’t think it’s a bad thing, I think I have a nice body, I’m happy with it.

Without the benefit of Google, ask anybody to name more than five female filmmakers that have made more than three films. It’s shockingly hard.

Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, perhaps we should control the population to ensure the survival of our environment