Interest Quotes

5175 Interest quotes by 3335 unique authors

Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your own feet, in your current job, industry, education, experience or interests. — Brian Tracy
Hungry Hatred, will not strive against intelligence self-interest. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Not that I have any interest in saying goodbye to Rocky. I absolutely adore being involved and a part of something that is really a… — Richard O'Brien
Can we unite against ourselves for our own higher interest? — Aldous Huxley
Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to… — Douglas MacArthur
Religion has ever filled the mind of man with darkness, and kept him in ignorance of his real duties and true interests. It is by… — Baron d'Holbach
Does housekeeping interest you at all? I think it really ought to be just as good as writing and I never see where the separation… — Virginia Woolf
What makes us so often discontented with those who transact business for us is that they almost always abandon the interest of their friends for… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is with-held, the better for you; for compound interest on compound… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Principles do not mainly influence even the principled; we talk on principle, but we act on interest. — Walter Savage Landor
There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility is… — Charles Caleb Colton
Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity. — Max Lerner
A just cause should need no interpretation yet flounders when confronted by self- interest and corruption. — Peter Dunne
Be yourself and think for yourself, and while your conclusions may not be infallible they will be nearer right than the inclusions forced upon you… — Elbert Hubbard
Avarice often produces opposite results: there are an infinite number of persons who sacrifice their property to doubtful and distant expectations; others mistake great future… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Familiarity confounds all traits of distinction; interest and prejudice take away the power of judging. — William Hazlitt
PATRIOT, n. One to whom the interests of a part seem superior to those of the whole. The dupe of statesmen and the tool of… — Ambrose Bierce
The government has departments to deal with the special interest groups that make themselves heard and felt. A Department of Agriculture cares for the farmers'… — Malcolm X
But I must add that the U.S. government must not, as by this order, undertake to run the churches. When an individual, in a church… — Abraham Lincoln
It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give a really unbiased opinion, which is no doubt the reason why… — Oscar Wilde
You and I possess manifold ideal bonds in the interests we share; but each of us has his poor body and his irremediable, incommunicable dreams. — George Santayana
Settlements may be temporary, but the action of the nations in the interest of peace and justice must be permanent. We can set up permanent… — Woodrow Wilson
Treaties are observed as long as they are in harmony with interests. — Napoleon Bonaparte
I believe it is in the national interest that government stand side-by-side with people of faith who work to change lives for the better. I… — George W. Bush
The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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