Self Interest Quotes

230 Self Interest quotes by 193 unique authors

Happiness is attained, not through self-interest, but through unconditional fidelity in endless love of eternal light. — Aaron Cohen
Solidarity is not a matter of altruism. Solidarity comes from the inability to tolerate the affront to our own integrity of passive or active collaboration… — Aurora Levins Morales
When business starts using its voice for the benefit of the country as a whole, not just in its narrow self interest, it can really… — Ben Cohen
This is the power of art: The power to transcend our own self-interest, our solipsistic zoom-lens on life, and relate to the world and each… — Maria Popova
It is not, perhaps, unreasonable to conclude, that a pure and perfect democracy is a thing not attainable by man, constituted as he is of… — Alexander Fraser Tytler
It is proper for people to have friends, friendships without self-interest. Without friends, life is too lonely. — Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Economic activity is no longer an adversarial contest between embattled sellers and buyers "In the distributed economy, where collaboration trumps competition, inclusivity replaces exclusivity and… — Jeremy Rifkin
The first beneficiary of compassion is always oneself. When compassion, or warmheartedness, arises in us and our focus shifts away from our own narrow self-interest,… — Dalai Lama
When he has the power to see things detached from self-interest and from the insistent claims of the lust of the senses, then alone can… — Rabindranath Tagore
Love is the most subtle form of self-interest. — Holbrook Jackson
Level 5 leaders channel their ego needs away from themselves and into the larger goal of building a great company. It's not that Level 5… — James C. Collins
We need to graduate from the ridiculous notion that greed is some kind of elixir for capitalism - it's the downfall of capitalism. Self-interest, maybe,… — Patricia Aburdene
Remember how often you have postponed minding your interest, and let slip those opportunities the gods have given you. It is now high time to… — Marcus Aurelius
Prejudice and passion and suspicion are more dangerous than the incitement of self-interest or the most stubborn adherence to real differences of opinion regarding rights. — Elihu Root
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest. — Abraham Lincoln
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
No one in this country need go hungry, and alleviating the problem is primarily a matter of readjusting our priorities. In both the government and… — Don Henley
An independent Ireland would see its own independence in jeopardy the moment it saw the independence of Britain seriously threatened. Mutual self-interest would make the… — Eamon de Valera
It's a civic virtue to be exposed to things that appear to be outside your interest. In a complex world, almost everything affects you –… — Eli Pariser
The true patriot is motivated by a sense of responsibility and out of self interest for himself, his family, and the future of his country… — Ron Paul
Invitation is not only a step in bringing people together, it is also a fundamental way of being in a community. It manifests the willingness… — Peter Block
If you happened to be born on third base, you didn't rub it in the face of the guy who wasn't even born in the… — Ron Suskind
I don't trust a man who talks about ethics when he is picking my pocket. But if he is acting in his own self-interest and… — Robert A. Heinlein

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