Happiness lies in making others happy, in forsaking self-interest to bring joy to others. — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
All men are idolators, some of fame, others of self-interest, most of pleasure. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Altruism is masked self-interest. Aggressive self-interest is a masked urge to self-destruction. — Greg Bear Copy Share Image
Part of diplomacy is to open different definitions of self-interest. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
In the polling booth narrow self interest wins out over lofty principles. — James Cook Copy Share Image
Is it really true that political self-interest is nobler somehow than economic self-interest? — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Where self-interest is violently suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome system of bureaucratic control which dries up the wellsprings of initiative… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
When your time is GOOD Then your mistakes are taken as jokes But when your time is BAD then even your jokes… — Sheetal Soni Copy Share Image
This is partly a function of approval ratings. People pay attention [to polls] and start saying, 'Lets take a more independent tack.'… — John Thune Copy Share Image
There are few things on which we can pass a sincere judgement, because there are few things in which we have not,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Don't compete with anyone, compete with yourself. Surround yourself with people better than you, learn from them. Do the same for others… — Alex Carrillo Copy Share Image
Surrender your self-interest. Love others as much as you love yourself. Then you can be entrusted with all things under heaven. — Laozi Copy Share Image
You're working not for the corporate interest, not for the government interest, not for your own self-interest. You have a higher calling. — Lynne Stewart Copy Share Image
I suspect it is for one's self-interest that one looks at one's surroundings and one's self. This search is personally born and… — Lee Friedlander Copy Share Image
Man—every man—is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others; he must live for his own sake, neither… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The true patriot is motivated by a sense of responsibility and out of self interest for himself, his family, and the future… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
Politics now is really only about self-interest, which means it has violence built into it because your self-interest is going to collide… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Successful societies-those which progress economically and politically and can control the terms on which they deal with the outside world-succeed because they… — James Fallows Copy Share Image
Competition is like experimentation in science, a discovery process, and it must rely on the self interest of producers, it must allow… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Most of us human beings tend to be parochial in our perceptions. What happens is that we have a very limited and… — Alan Borovoy Copy Share Image
A highly worthwhile read with prescriptive examples for authentic sustainability and social justice initiatives at companies - not all about the brand,… — Rebecca Aguilar Copy Share Image
To set aside one’s prejudices, one’s present needs, and one’s own self interest in making a decision as a director for a… — Mervyn King Copy Share Image
Our civilization is locked in the grip of an ideology - corporatism. An ideology that denies and undermines the legitimacy of individuals… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Dictatorship nations are outlaws. Any free nation had the right to invade Nazi Germany and, today, has the right to invade Soviet… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
His constant fight is with the Nafs (self-interest), the root of all disharmony and the only enemy of man. By crushing this… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
I think we can't be naive in dealing with the Russians or dealing with the Syrians. But at the same time, I… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
As I see it, there are two great forces of human nature: self-interest, and caring for others. Capitalism harnesses self-interest in a… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
“It’s the moment when something happens not just deep among the trees but also in the dark interior of the human heart,… — Sandor Marai Copy Share Image
Nowhere has truth such a short life as in Sicily; a fact has scarcely happened five minutes before its genuine kernel has… — Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa Copy Share Image
To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
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