Our politics suffers from a shortage of people who put character and country before career and personal gain. — Cal Thomas Copy Share Image
It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it. I would hope to act with compassion without thinking of personal… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
My father was the only man I ever knew who really loved me unselfishly, who never used me for personal gain. — Jayne Mansfield 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
“To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in… — Anonymous 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
A hobby is, of course, an abomination, as are all consuming interests and passions that do not lead directly to large, personal… — Fran Lebowitz 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
“Sure we all enjoy movies, books and TV shows that portray people putting principles ahead PFB personal gain. But it might be… — Chuck Lorre Copy Share Image
The point is to create a system where individuals don't work simply for money or personal gain but to support the planet… — Michael Beckwith Copy Share Image
“Intelligence must be used for the benefit, and not to the detriment, of society. Those who use intelligence for their own personal… — Veronica Roth 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
All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
If 'heartache' sounds exaggerated then surely you have never gone to your garden one rare morning in June to find that the… — Ruth Stout Copy Share Image
“Let's just say that Pitt has a ton of balls, the brains to go with them, and an uncanny knack for knocking… — Al Giordino Copy Share Image
“It is fairly commonplace now to admit that our American culture is centered around the self. We believe in the supremacy of… — Gale Heide Copy Share Image
“Since then, I've observed that a charismatic personality who's willing to take risks only for personal gain does not make a good… — Kenneth E. Behring Copy Share Image
Playing games with agreed upon rules helps children learn to live by rules, establish the delicate balance between competition andcooperation, between fair… — James P. Comer Copy Share Image
I ask for the movement to continue, for the movement to grow, because last week I got a phone call from Altoona,… — Harvey Milk Copy Share Image
“Batley insisted that no cult existed but the jury found him guilty of 35 offences including 11 rapes. three indecent assaults, causing… — Michael Salter 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
“Natsu: This is my personal Fairy Tail style send-off party. People who leave Fairy Tail must understand three rules. One: Never release… — Hiro Mashima Copy Share Image
“Philosophy may be sometimes hard to grasp, but it is profoundly meaningful. Mudding the waters under the pretense of doing something meaningful… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
“Shutting off [Twitter] without warning was jarring and isolating, like having a friend you rely on just vanish with no explanation. Jordan… — Scaachi Koul Copy Share Image
“There are obvious psychological stresses on a person in a group, but there may be even greater stresses on a person in… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
“If the technology platforms of the First and Second Industrial Revolutions aided in the severing and enclosing of the Earth’s myriad ecological… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
“In addition to its role in facilitating change, conflict serves a number of other constructive functions—as a releaser of tension, a promoter… — Jeffrey Kottler 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
“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
“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
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
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 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
“Selfishness is self-absorption, self-seeking behaviour that either disregards the rights and needs of others or tramples them deliberately in favour of personal… — Adelyn Birch Copy Share Image
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
The Clintons have sold everything about America and its policy and its future for their own personal gain in terms of amassing… — Rush Limbaugh 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
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
A world in which government is burdened by historic debt, philanthropy has limited resources, and the private sector is only interested in… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image