Self Interest Quotes

230 Self Interest quotes by 193 unique authors

Whether you believe it a moral imperative or in the rich world's enlightened self-interest, securing the conditions that will lead to a healthy, prosperous future… — Bill Gates
I don't believe we're only motivated by our own self-interests. Often out of crisis comes this enormous wellspring of generosity and motivation. — Josh Fox
If my ruling disposition is self-interest, I perceive that everything that happens to me is always for or against my self-interest; if, on the other… — Oswald Chambers
The essential challenge is to transform the isolation and self-interest within our communities into connectedness and caring for the whole. — Peter Block
There is an ongoing battle between conscience and self-interest in which, at some point, we have to take sides. — Robert Breault
In practice, the goal of skepticism is not the discovery of truth, but the exposure of other people's errors. It plays a useful role in… — Rupert Sheldrake
If Congress does its job in this regard, the residents of Puerto Rico will be empowered to act in their own self-interest and express their… — Dick Thornburgh
Why do we not exhaust the heritage of the ages, spiritual and material for our immediate pleasure, and let posterity go hang? So far as… — Russell Kirk
We see considerable strain in Russia, and that's obviously a matter of concern to us. It's in the very strong self-interest of Russia to continue… — Warren Christopher
I hope that I state your case fairly: One of my great fears is misrepresenting you, even to myself, now that you are not here… — Michael Arditti
To know what you’re going to draw, you have to begin drawing... When I find myself facing a blank page, that’s always going through my… — Pablo Picasso
To be just, is not enough to refrain from injustice. Once must go further and refuse to play its game, substituting love for self interest… — Pedro Arrupe
Compassion being action without motive, without self-interest, without any sense of fear, without any sense of pleasure. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas. — Pablo Picasso
When the healthy pursuit of self-interest and self-realizatio n turns into self-absorption , other people can lose their intrinsic value in our eyes and become… — P. M. Forni
It is important that when pursing our own self-interest we should be 'wise selfish' and not 'foolish selfish'. Being foolish selfish means pursuing our own… — Dalai Lama
Self-interest speaks all manner of tongues and plays all manner of parts, even that of disinterestedness. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest. — Pindar
To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any other motive of… — Immanuel Kant
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 is indeed my… — Lee Friedlander
Gandhi rejects the Adam Smith notion of human nature as motivated by self-interest and brute needs and returns us to our spiritual dimension with its… — Nelson Mandela
Often, the pretexts for starting a war are not real shortages of land, food or fuel, but rather perceptions - like fear, honor and perceived… — Victor Davis Hanson
A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself. — George Bernard Shaw
The chief element in the art of statesmanship under modern conditions is the ability to elucidate the confused and clamorous interests which converge upon the… — Walter Lippmann
Successful societies-those which progress economically and politically and can control the terms on which they deal with the outside world-succeed because they have found ways… — James Fallows

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