Self interest Quotes

Music speaks to me when no one else can¦

— Kristi Goetting

Love is the most subtle form of self-interest.

— Holbrook Jackson

Self interest determines loyalty or betrayal.

— James Cook

Deny Self for Self's sake

— Benjamin Franklin

For the world is only governed by self-interest.

— Friedrich Schiller

Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.

— Pindar

Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Cats are autocrats of naked self-interest.

— Camille Paglia

The difficulty is to know conscience from self-interest.

— William Dean Howells

Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.

— Abraham Lincoln

Recognize and respect mutual self-interests, then build creative collaborations to serve them.

— Warren G. Bennis

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

— James F. Byrnes

Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We must forget ourselves and all self-interest, and listen, and be attentive to God.

— Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

Self-interest leads to honing your skills, the better to trade with.

— P. J. O'Rourke

It certainly has not been in my self-interest to defend men.

— Warren Farrell

The only pictorial matter that is of interest to me is the matter and sentiments brought about by the work itself.

— Pablo Picasso

Life is hard when you think everything is about you. The truth is, no matter who you are, it's not always about…

— Senora Roy

When he has the power to see things detached from self-interest and from the insistent claims of the lust of the senses,…

— Rabindranath Tagore

Compassion being action without motive, without self-interest, without any sense of fear, without any sense of pleasure.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

What is the best way to go beyond self-interest and obsession with personal demands, needs and disappointments? The answer is: Whatever you…

— Gurumayi Chidvilasananda

It's overwhelmingly in the self-interest of the United States of America to have a secure, democratic friend, a strategic partner like Israel.

— Joe Biden

“The lesson I learned is that when you give someone authority, you must be conscious you are doing so and continue to…

— Margie Warrell

In a reality, what we should be doing is having quiet diplomacy with the Russians to convince them that it's in their…

— Rand Paul

To know what you’re going to draw, you have to begin drawing... When I find myself facing a blank page, that’s always…

— Pablo Picasso

“Shirking and sharking, in all their many varieties, have been sown broadcast by the ill-fated cause; and even those who have contemplated…

— Charles Dickens

We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics. Out of the collapse…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The very essence of capitalism is under threat as business is now seen as a personal wealth accumulator. We have to bring…

— Paul Polman

We cannot doubt that self-interest is the mainspring of human nature. It must be clearly understood that this word is used here…

— Frederic Bastiat

Which is more subversive-and corrosive-to believe in altruism or to see it simply as a cloak of self interest? Even if altruism…

— Frank Prochaska

“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their…

— Adam Smith

Adam Smith had one overwhelmingly important triumph: he put into the center of economics the systematic analysis of the behavior of individuals…

— George Stigler

In view of the importance of philanthropy in our society, it is surprising that so little attention has been given to it…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

This was 1990, the year that communism died in Europe and it seemed strange to me that in all the words that…

— Bill Bryson

While self-interest arising from the enjoyment of meat eating is obviously one reason for its entrenchment, and inertia another, a process of…

— Carol J. Adams

Charitable endeavour exalts the prestige and the status of the giver. This may sound unduly cynical but as with all philantrophic activity,…

— David Cannadine

I hate being human, not the fact I hate my humanity. Because I'm in this prison, my bones holding everything together. Breathing…

— Jeremy Limn

I understand that unless you have a government of laws, rather than a government of people, you cannot protect dissent. And I…

— Erica Jong

“In the world as it is, man moves primarily because of self-interest. In the world as it is, the right things are…

— Saul D. Alinsky

I put my hand out and wiped the vomit from his lips, and cooed soothing words to him. It squeezed my heart…

— Aravind Adiga