Self-interest speaks all manner of tongues and plays all manner of parts, even that of disinterestedness. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The best headlines are those that appeal to the reader's self-interest, that is, headlines based on reader benefits. They offer readers something… — John Caples Copy Share Image
We've gotta restore the American people's confidence in the ethics process by ensuring that political self-interest can no longer prevent politicians from… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Self-interest is an inexhaustible source of convenient illusions. The number of beings who wish to see truly is extraordinarily small. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
What impels every man to the utmost exertion in the service of his fellow man. Is, in the market not compulsion on… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
When I begin doing something I find interesting, I don't know when to stop it become even more interesting for me.hahaa — Mia Copy Share Image
Our actions in this world, and our ability to rise above the limits of our own self-interest, live on far beyond us… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
Our nation has both an obligation and self-interest in facing head-on the serious environmental, economic and national security threat posed by global… — John McCain Copy Share Image
We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
It turns out that one can perpetrate all manner of heinous villainy under a cloak of courtesy and good cheer. . .a… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
“We live in an age when selfinterest alone seems to determine all of man’s acts—and what empathy, what emotion, what enthusiasm can… — Anne-Louise-Germaine de Staël Copy Share Image
Make choices that take your mind, body, and soul into consideration. You are the only person who knows whats best for you.… — Suman Rai Copy Share Image
The selfless love that we give to others, to the point of being willing to sacrifice our lives for them, is all… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“It always seemed strange to me that the things we admire in men: kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Never hate the person who has hurt you. Forgive them, smile, brush your shoulders off and live like they have never existed.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Trust a witness in all matters in which neither his self-interest, his passions, his prejudices, nor the love of the marvellous is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We must formulate, with both imagination and restraint, a new approach to the Middle East - not pressing our case so hard… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Aside from higher considerations, charity often operates as a vastly wise and prudent principle-a great safeguard to its possessor. Men have committed… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Christianity has held back any further advances in human consciousness for the past thousand years. And for the past century it's been… — David Gerrold 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
The nature of men and of organized society dictates the maintenance in every field of action of the highest and purest standards… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
For many people, the mortgages they took out before 2008 are so high that they would be better off walking away from… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
All too often, as we know from experience, people do not choose life; they do not accept the gospel of life, but… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with being proud of America, believing that America can do great things. America can do great things, it has… — Peter Beinart Copy Share Image
The passions possess a certain injustice and self interest which makes it dangerous to follow them, and in reality we should distrust… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Too often, complaint is not about principled objection on moral grounds, but opportunistic objection on grounds of self-interest. To rectify this, we… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
“A true generous heart can never revolve majorly with monetary skills nor business acumen nor cunning mind.” — Angelica Hopes Copy Share Image
Democracy actually requires that the whole public be able to see common problems and address them and step outside of their own… — Eli Pariser Copy Share Image
Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of… — Elihu Root Copy Share Image
The essential challenge is to transform the isolation and self-interest within our communities into connectedness and caring for the whole. — Peter Block Copy Share Image
We have always known that heedless self interest was bad morals, we now know that it is bad economics. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Police are supposed to protect and serve, but sadly, they protect their self-interest first and foremost. — Seph Lawless Copy Share Image
The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned. — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
Where does this guy's ambition go? That's very peculiar. I think he's a very disturbing person, I think he's a very disturbing… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
If Congress does its job in this regard, the residents of Puerto Rico will be empowered to act in their own self-interest… — Dick Thornburgh Copy Share Image
A just cause should need no interpretation yet flounders when confronted by self- interest and corruption. — Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
Just like self-interest is not selfishness, well, confidence is not a negative. Confidence is not an off-putting thing. It's, in fact, necessary… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Individuals motivated by self-interest, self-indulgence, and a false sense of self-sufficiency pursue selfish ambition for the purpose of self-glorification. — C. J. Mahaney Copy Share Image
Politics and self-interest have been so uniformly connected, that the world, from being so often deceived, has a right to be suspicious… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
There is an ongoing battle between conscience and self-interest in which, at some point, we have to take sides. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
