To excel is to reach your own highest dream. But you must also help others, where and when you can, to reach… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
I have great respect for human life. My decision to take human life at the Murrah Building – I did not do… — Timothy McVeigh Copy Share Image
Out of all the climbers of this generation, I was the one who became known to the larger public. Many of them… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
“If there was a wizard of whom I would believe that they did not seek personal gain,' said Griphook finally, 'it would… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“2. A disregard of competition. Whoever does a thing best ought to be the one to do it. It is criminal to… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
“The trouble between Hindus and Muslims, which has continued to this day, is not generated by the people's inability to get along,… — Arun Gandhi Copy Share Image
“old-fashioned, gentle Scottish physician, unmoved by the considerations of profit and personal gain that could so disfigure medicine. That doctors should consider… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
“From his endless work had come a great industry, great personal gain, but happiness? It was a word he would have puzzled… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“Accustomed to the calm aspects of things, she turned, instead, toward the more tumultuous. She loved the sea only for its storms,… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Malicious acts are performed by people for personal gain … Sorcerers, though, have an ulterior purpose for their acts, which has nothing… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
“You do remember the lessons, however. Rome—corrupt, rich, and disorganized, a republic that ruled the world yet couldn’t rule itself. Its senators… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
If we look on idly, heaven and earth will never be joined. To join heaven and earth, some decisive deed of purity… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
“If I think of the ballot as a potential bullet, I will be more careful when I vote. The word vote comes… — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
There is nothing more personal than your values. What you will and won't do to get ahead, the lines you will and… — Patti LaBelle Copy Share Image
If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples; if it be unfamiliar, make it figure as part of… — William James Copy Share Image
Some people seek meaning in life through personal gain, through personal relationship, or through personal experiences. However, it seems to me that… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“There exists no ”invisible hand“—that was always an unfortunate turn of phrase—but billions of highly visible fingers, doing, purely for personal gain,… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Love...no such thing. Whatever it is that binds families and married couples together, that's not love. That's stupidity or selfishness or fear.… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
So if one, or two, or a handful of guys sells drugs for their own personal gain and profit who just so… — Chuck Zito Copy Share Image
Courage is…following your conscience instead of "following the crowd." Sacrificing personal gain for the benefit of others. Speaking your mind even though… — Eric Harvey Copy Share Image
To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Personally, I feel that it is the most contemptible thing for a politician to seek personal gains from politics. — Khem Veasna Copy Share Image
It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Civility is just lying to people about your true feelings. Hiding for personal gain. Popular people, well, they're just the best liars.” — Rick Remender Copy Share Image
“To take another person’s life for personal gain is the most selfish act imaginable. Especially when that other person is your clone.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Perfect love is any time you love unconditionally, without selfish intent, without concern for personal gain. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I did what I did for my clone, not for my own personal gain. It wasn’t right that he asked it of… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Everyone here would die for the sake of truth. Everyone here lies constantly for the tiniest chance of personal gain. This is… — Greg Egan Copy Share Image
“TODAY’S AFFIRMATION: Because I am in right standing with God, He surrounds me with favor. Therefore, I have no need to manipulate… — Deborah Smith Pegues Copy Share Image
History will probably, because of the almost total abomination of the entertainment industry and the media, picture me as some kind of… — Anita Bryant Copy Share Image
The way a man penetrates the world should be the same way he penetrates his woman: not merely for personal gain or… — David Deida Copy Share Image
“To insinuate that I would break an oath that I made to the ALMIGHTY for my own personal gain is an insult.… — J.B. Lion Copy Share Image
“This is what evil does; it makes choices for others in the name of religion, in the name of government, in the… — John Kramer Copy Share Image
“In these our degenerate times, men bent on nothing but vainglory and personal gain – hollow, bombastic men for whom nothing is… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
We hear a constant clamor for rights, rights, always rights, but so very little about responsibility. And we have forgotten God. The… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
If we look on idly, heaven and earth will never be joined. To join heaven and earth, some decisive deed of purity… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples. If it be unfamiliar, trace some point of analogy in… — William James Copy Share Image
“Sax had always been so uninterested in [power and gain] that it was hard for him to understand why anyone else would… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
Deceit for personal gain is one of history's most recurring crimes. Man's first step towards change would be thinking, counter-arguing, re-thinking, twisting,… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“[Norm said,] 'To all those who argue this war is a mistake, I'd like to point out that we've removed from power… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image