Benefit
An act of kindness; a favor conferred.
Whatever promotes prosperity and personal happiness, or adds value to property; advantage; profit.
A theatrical performance, a concert, or the like, the proceeds of which do not go to the lessee of the theater or to the company, but to some individual actor, or to some charitable use.
Beneficence; liberality.
Natural advantages; endowments; accomplishments.
To be beneficial to; to do good to; to advantage; to advance in health or prosperity; to be useful to; to profit.
To gain advantage; to make improvement; to profit; as, he will benefit by the change.
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Benefit Quotations
There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.
Napoleon Hill
When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans.
Ron Paul
Cliches about supporting the troops are designed to distract from failed policies, policies promoted by powerful special interests that benefit from war, anything to steer the discussion away from the real reasons the war in Iraq will not end anytime soon.
Ron Paul
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
When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.
Plato
The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.
Voltaire
Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
Napoleon Hill
Benefit Translations
benefit in Afrikaans is voordeel, profyt
benefit in Danish is fordel
benefit in German is Wohltat, Nutzen, Vorteil, Nutzen
benefit in Italian is guadagnare, guadagno
benefit in Latin is prosum, beneficium
benefit in Norwegian is gode, gagn
benefit in Spanish is ganar, lucro, beneficio, ventaja
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