Benefactors Quotes

• Good men and bad men differ radically. Bad men never appreciate kindness shown them, but wise men appreciate and are grateful. Wise men try to express their appreciation and gratitude by some return of kindness, not only to their benefactor, but to everyone else

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Gratitude, Appreciation

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• 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

  No Regrets, Enemy, Doe

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• Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. The person sitting in the shade now should be grateful for the person who planted and tended that tree. That includes all those benefactors of humanity throughout history that created, invented, financed, produced, maintained and improved all that we enjoy today.

  Warren Buffett

  Gratitude, Grateful, Long

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• Mankind divides itself into two classes,--benefactors and malefactors. The second class is vast; the first a handful.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Class, Two, Firsts

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2360, Delphi Classics

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• In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Dream, Years, Giving

  George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Major Barbara”, p.72, Courier Corporation

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• Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Relationship, Egotism

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Linda Allardt (1982). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.349, Harvard University Press

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• Real art is one of the most powerful forces in the rise of mankind, and he who renders it accessible to as many people as possible is a benefactor of humanity.

  Zoltan Kodaly

  Art, Powerful, Real

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• Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.

  Mark Twain

  Life, Death, Gratitude

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 3, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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• With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.

  Joseph Addison

  Inspirational, People, Prudent

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• It is therefore recommended... to set apart Thursday the eighteenth day of December next, for solemn thanksgiving and praise, that with one heart and one voice the good people may express the grateful feelings of their hearts and consecrate themselves to the service of their divine benefactor.

  Samuel Adams

  Thanksgiving, Religious, Grateful

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• I happen to have the benefit of having a son-in-law who was the former Mr. France and a trainer. I like being his benefactor and I like the way he works.

  Suzanne Somers

  Son, Law, Benefits

  Interview with Cheri Sicard, fabulousfoods.com. August 6, 2007.

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• Giving anyone anything takes courage, since so many presents backfire. A gift conspicuously at odds with your tastes serves only to betray that the benefactor has no earthly clue who you are.

  Lionel Shriver

  Odds, Giving, Taste

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• Suffering can make saints of people as they learn patience, long-suffering and self-mastery.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Adversity, Self, Long

  Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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• People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.

  John Betjeman

  Home, Garden, People

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• A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature

  George Orwell

  Hate, Men, Receiving

  George Orwell (2012). “Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.132, Lulu.com

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• The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.

  Og Mandino

  Motivational, Art, Life And Love

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World, Part II: The End of the Story”, p.114, Bantam

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• There is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.

  John Donne

  Sticks, Hook, Benefits

  John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne, D.D., Dean of Saint Paul's, 1621-1631: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.481

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• Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and comfort, but if we were to close the doors upon sorrow and distress, we might be excluding our greatest friends and benefactors. Suffering can make saints of people as they learn patience, long-suffering, and self-mastery.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Pain, Adversity, Doors

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• There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.

  Lara St. John

  Incentives, Canada

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• Apple was our benefactor at starting General Magic, but about a year later decided they would rather BE General Magic and tried to make us blink out of existence... which we eventually did, but it took a few years.

  Andy Hertzfeld

  Years, Apples, Magic

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• The die is set and Malcolm will not escape for the foolish talk he spoke against his benefactor, such a man, is worthy of death, and it would have been so, were it not for Muhammad's confidence that God would give him the victory over the enemies.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Men, Giving, Enemy

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• Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors?

  Saint Basil

  Dog, Gratitude, Men

  Saint Basil (2010). “Exegetic Homilies (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 46)”, p.143, CUA Press

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• In fact, as a general thing, money-getters are the benefactors of our race.

  P. T. Barnum

  Race, Facts

  P. T. Barnum (1999). “Art of Money Getting”, p.91, Applewood Books

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• Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.
  Death, the refuge, the solace, the best and kindliest and most prized friend and benefactor of the erring, the forsaken, the old and weary and broken of heart.

  Mark Twain

  Death, Heart, Broken

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• As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters.

  Edward Gibbon

  Military, War, Character

  Edward Gibbon (1781). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.8

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