Definition of Benefit

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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

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.
Napoleon Hill

Wise men, when in doubt whether to speak or to keep quiet, give themselves the benefit of the doubt, and remain silent.
Napoleon Hill

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 great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
W. Clement Stone

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

The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels the great need of your assistance, your prayers, your sacrifice, and he most humbly asks this of you.
Pope John Paul II

All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors.
John Calvin

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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