[Personal] industry must be faint and languid, which is not excited by the sense of personal interest. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
God keeps the entire universe in order, and still finds time to take a personal interest in you and me. — Mother Angelica Copy Share Image
Don't ally your personal interests with the development of the company. — Wang Jianlin Copy Share Image
“The best advice will come from the person who has no personal interest in the matter.” — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image
My personal interest in IVF led me to author two reports into the availability of treatment on the NHS. — Grant Shapps Copy Share Image
It is doubtless very desirable, that private persons should have a correct knowledge of their personal interests; but it must be infinitely… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
I have made it a principle to give advice that does not serve my personal interest but rather the common interests. — George Soros Copy Share Image
America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
You vote yourselves salaries out of the public funds and care only for your own personal interests; hence the state limps along. — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
We are not saved by nations or by churches or by families, but as individuals, through a personal interest in a personal… — John Angell James Copy Share Image
The full life depends, not on the range of experience but on the intensity of the interest, the emotion involved, and on… — Ann Bridge Copy Share Image
“God does not just save you for your personal interest but for you to become a channel for the salvation of others” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Yes. The all-volunteer force is comprised of a very small percentage of the population. Therefore, fewer citizens have a personal interest in… — Sanford Bishop Copy Share Image
I leave the governor's office next week, and with it public life[which] has been on the whole a pleasant one. But for… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
If experience teaches anything, it is that what the community undertakes to do is usually done badly. This is due in part… — Suzanne La Follette Copy Share Image
“At first I was surprised and confused; then as he lay in his house and didn't move or breathe or speak hour… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“You cannot have qualifications without experience; and you cannot have experience without personal interest and bias. That may not be an ideal… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“It should make perfect sense that if a man is a personal, self-consciously moral creature, and if a personal creature is made… — Kevin Swanson Copy Share Image
Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest, just as personal interest is always in contradiction… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
“Morality means sacrificing your personal interest for the interest of the group and being immoral means keeping the interest of the self… — Awdhesh Singh Copy Share Image
The organization of supplies, the command of men, anything in any way constructive requires more than intellect; it requires energy and drive… — Erwin Rommel Copy Share Image
If anyone feels offended by my words, I would respond that I speak them with affection and with the best of intentions,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat. Ay any… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Throughout my career, I have benefitted from the experience and counsel of a wide range of people who took a very personal… — Laurel J. Richie Copy Share Image
“[O]ne may properly look closely at any proposed new "freedom" from restraint or convention in order to learn what if any personal… — J. Reuben Clark Jr Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I used to live in New York City. There was a guy named Michael Alig. He used… — Jared Leto Copy Share Image
Moments later a huge male with a cropped mohawk came out. Rehvenge was dressed in a perfectly tailored black suit and had… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
There are at the present time two great nations in the world--the Russians and the Americans. The American relies upon his personal… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Of course, if one's reading Kierkegaard for personal interest that's fine - but it's sloppy scholarship just to cherry pick what suits… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
“Nature is infinitely rich and diverse in her ways. She can be seen to break her most unchanging laws. She has made… — Jan Potocki Copy Share Image
“At the head of peoples, above the elite, one finds the monarchy. I reject the republic. ...Not all of the monarchs were… — Corneliu Zelea Codreanu Copy Share Image
“No, sir! If, for example, in earlier times it was said to me: “Love your neighbour” and I acted on it, what… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“There are at the present time two great nations in the world, which started from different points, but seem to tend towards… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“External relationships seem to have been emptied by a massive withdrawal of the real libidinal self. Effective mental activity has disappeared into… — Harry Guntrip Copy Share Image
We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
America may be a fallible democracy. But when the president sacrifices the national interest for his personal interest, we can show that… — Tom Malinowski Copy Share Image
Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
If the members who compose a society lived on continuously, they might educate the new-born members, but it would be a task… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
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