Interest Quotes

5175 Interest quotes by 3335 unique authors

It's good to have a manager who shares your interests, or goals. You can presumably trust a husband. I don't know if it's the best… — Dorothy Stratten
I tell our sisters in the South that so far as Tennessee is concerned she will not be dragged into a Southern or any other… — Andrew Johnson
... far more people make a living as professional chess players today than ever before. Thanks partly to the availability of computer programs and online… — Kenneth Rogoff
Show as much interest in what your children tell you as they have in telling you. — Wes Fesler
Humans are ambitious and rational and proud. And we don't fall in line with people who don't respect us and who we don't believe have… — Rachel Maddow
Short of preventing harm to the child, the standard of 'best interest of the child' is insufficient to serve as a compelling state interest overruling… — Unknown Author
It is difficult to begin without borrowing, but perhaps it is the most generous course thus to permit your fellowmen to have an interest in… — Henry David Thoreau
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest. — Abraham Lincoln
I've always thought that my exposure to competitive sports helped me a great deal in the operating room. It teaches you endurance, and it teaches… — Denton Cooley
What we take for virtue is often nothing but an assemblage of different actions, and of different interests, that fortune or our industry knows how… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There are no shortcuts. Be patient and look long-term. It's a foolish idea that if you do a little more, faster, then you'll get better… — Robert de Castella
When you want a thing deeply, earnestly and intensely, this feeling of desire reinforces your will and arouses in you the determination to work for… — Grenville Kleiser
The only way that you can keep moving forward, finding other ways of expressing things about this increasingly complicated world that we live in, is… — Simon McBurney
Consider the public. Never fear it nor despise it. Coax it, charm it, interest it, stimulate it, shock it now and then if you must,… — Noel Coward
If 6,000,000 cattle had been slaughtered, there would have been more interest. A way would have been found. — Emanuel Celler
The mind has transformed the world, and the world is repaying it with interest. It has led man where he had no idea how to… — Paul Valery
Surrender your self-interest. Love others as much as you love yourself. Then you can be entrusted with all things under heaven. — Laozi
You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest. — Robert Breault
Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality. — Thomas Jefferson
It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation — Hilaire Belloc
Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special. — Fran Lebowitz
All failures - neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, and prostitutes - are failures because they are lacking in social interest — Alfred Adler
Politicians are a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people and who, to say the most of them, are,… — Abraham Lincoln
A patriot is he whose public conduct is regulated by one single motive, the love of his country; who, as an agent in parliament, has,… — Samuel Johnson
People who love ideas must have a love of words. They will take a vivid interest in the clothes that words wear. — Beatrice Warde

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