Tertullian Quotes

He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.

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• I don't feel like sitting around doing nothing would benefit me.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Benefit

• Economically, unfair trade will benefit nobody in the long run, as poorer countries will be bled totally dry and will become unable to produce anything.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Long
  • Trade
  • Nobody

• Whenever we submit our will to someone else’s opinion, a part of us dies

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Opinion
  • Part
  • Dies

• If this ever changing world in which we live in makes you give in and cry, say live and let die.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • World
  • Live
  • Giving

• Oliver: Fear is the natural state of anything that dies.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Fear
  • Natural
  • Dies

• Foreclosure is to no one's benefit. I've heard estimates that mortgage investors lose 40 to 50 percent on their investment if it goes into foreclosure.

  

  Henry Paulson
  • Benefit
  • Investors
  • Mortgage

• The fast-growing hospitality industry is very much in need of skilled workers. Thousands of workers will benefit from the outreach, English literacy and occupational skills.

  

  Elaine Chao
  • Growing
  • English
  • Industry

• Napoleon Hill saw this law of transmutation as the seed of equivalent benefit: With every disappointment, heartbreak, or failure, there exists an equal (usually greater) positive benefit.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Law
  • Positive
  • Failure

• Within every adversity is an equal and opposite benefit.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Adversity
  • Equal
  • Benefit

• An object dies when the gaze that lights on it has disappeared.

  

  Chris Marker
  • Light
  • Dies
  • Objects

• You won't die, Francie. You were born to lick this rotten life.

  

  Betty Smith
  • Life
  • Die
  • Born

• The dropout crisis is just the tip of an iceberg. What it doesn't count are all the kids who are in school but being disengaged from it, who don't enjoy it, who don't get any real benefit from it.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • Real
  • School
  • Kids

• Virtue lives when Beauty dies.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Beauty
  • Virtue
  • Dies

• Trading would definitely benefit people on both sides of the border and this could be termed as a strategic partnership.

  

  Pranab Mukherjee
  • People
  • Benefit
  • Partnership

• Teen pop will never die as long as there are teens and popular music. It just takes a different head.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
  • Music
  • Different
  • Long

• Sometimes I am God, if I say a man dies, he dies that same day.

  

  Pablo Escobar
  • God
  • Men
  • Sometimes

• If we would have anything of benefit, we must earn it, and earning it become shrewd, inventive, ingenious, active, enterprising.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Benefit
  • Earn
  • Earning

• Well the truth is, everybody, when they die, leaves a void that cannot be filled.

  

  Tilda Swinton
  • Wells
  • Dies
  • Filled

• If I could never work again and I could just listen to music and walk, I'd be very, very happy.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Work
  • Music
  • Happy

• Glue guys aren't superstars. They're not the No. 1 option. They just do things only coaches really appreciate. The stars get the headlines, but glue guys help you get in the winner's circle. I don't think you can win without having that kind of player.

  

  Dick Vitale
  • Help
  • Player
  • Appreciate

• I knew what I was getting into when I chose golf. Hell, I knew I'd never get rich and famous. All the discrimination, the not being able to play where I deserved and wanted to play - in the end, I didn't give a damn. I was made for a tough life because I'm a tough man. And in the end, I won: I got a lot of black people playing golf.

  

  Charlie Sifford
  • People
  • Life
  • Black

• Tonight was one of those nights where things didn't go my way. I got great looks at the rim, I just couldn't knock them down.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • Great
  • Things
  • Looks

• To live is to be among men, and to be among men is to struggle, a struggle not only with them but with oneself; with their passions, but also with one's own.

  

  Jose Rizal
  • Men
  • Passion
  • Struggle

• He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.

  

  Tertullian
  • Dies
  • Benefit
  • Confers