Personal Gain Quotes
29 quotes by 29 authors
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If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples; if it be unfamiliar, make it figure as part of a story; if…
— William James
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If faith is lacking, it is because there is too much selfishness, too much concern for personal gain. For faith to be true, it has…
— Mother Teresa
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You build trust with others each time you choose integrity over image, truth over convenience, or honor over personal gain.
— John C. Maxwell
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To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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The point is to create a system where individuals don't work simply for money or personal gain but to support the planet and its inhabitants…
— Michael Beckwith
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Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your own principles.
— Marilyn vos Savant
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I have great respect for human life. My decision to take human life at the Murrah Building – I did not do it for personal…
— Timothy McVeigh
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So long as people do not consider all men as their brothers and do not consider human life as the most sacred thing, which rather…
— Leo Tolstoy
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To excel is to reach your own highest dream. But you must also help others, where and when you can, to reach theirs. Personal gain…
— Barbara Walters
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The way a man penetrates the world should be the same way he penetrates his woman: not merely for personal gain or pleasure, but to…
— David Deida
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Follow your heart's truth with no need for personal gain other than the feeling produced when doing what you truly love.
— Keke Palmer
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There is nothing more personal than your values. What you will and won't do to get ahead, the lines you will and won't cross to…
— Patti LaBelle
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I have never been interested in personal gain or profit. This business and this studio have been my entire life.
— Walt Disney
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Deceit for personal gain is one of history's most recurring crimes. Man's first step towards change would be thinking, counter-arguing, re-thinking, twisting, straightening, perfecting, then…
— Criss Jami
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A world in which government is burdened by historic debt, philanthropy has limited resources, and the private sector is only interested in its own personal…
— Simon Mainwaring
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Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot be changed or…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Malicious acts are performed by people for personal gain … Sorcerers, though, have an ulterior purpose for their acts, which has nothing to do with…
— Carlos Castaneda
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Some people seek meaning in life through personal gain, through personal relationship, or through personal experiences. However, it seems to me that being blessed with…
— Michio Kaku
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If we look on idly, heaven and earth will never be joined. To join heaven and earth, some decisive deed of purity is necessary. To…
— Yukio Mishima
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I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it. I would hope to act with compassion without thinking of personal gain.
— Thomas Aquinas
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