Self-Interest Quotes

101 quotes by 92 authors

• You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the… — Ethel Barrymore
• Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest. — Charles Baudelaire
• Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life. — James F. Byrnes
• Your self-worth has nothing to do with your craft or calling, and everything to do with how you treat yourself. — Kris Carr
• There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth. — Chanakya
• Part of diplomacy is to open different definitions of self-interest. — Hillary Clinton
• Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender. — Henri Frederic Amiel
• The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment. — William Sloane Coffin
• Whatever we treasure for ourselves separates us from others; our possessions are our limitations. — Rabindranath Tagore
• When you say 'yes' to others, make sure you are not saying 'no' to yourself. — Paulo Coelho
• The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race. — Gough Whitlam
• I know what's best for me, after all I have been in the Claudette Colbert business longer than anybody. — Claudette Colbert
• The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned. — Carlos Fuentes
• Something is clearly wrong with Kansas and the rest of Middle America when it comes to letting economic self-interest guide their voting. — Howell Raines
• The kind of society which we still have is maybe, in some cases, getting worse. Competition is becoming a virtue. Intense competition drives people to… — Major Owens
• 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
• 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
• I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival. — Audre Lorde
• 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
• 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

Who Wrote These Self-Interest Quotes

92 authors contributed a total of 101 Self-Interest Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 4 Self-Interest Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
• 3 Self-Interest Quotes by Jeremy Limn
• 2 Self-Interest Quotes by Franklin D. Roosevelt
• 2 Self-Interest Quotes by Paulo Coelho
• 2 Self-Interest Quotes by George Packer
• 2 Self-Interest Quotes by Sonya Parker
• 1 Self-Interest Quote by P.J. O'Rourke
• 1 Self-Interest Quote by Peter Singer
• 1 Self-Interest Quote by Sheetal Soni
• 1 Self-Interest Quote by James E. Faust
• 1 Self-Interest Quote by A. Bartlett Giamatti
• 1 Self-Interest Quote by Bakare
• 1 Self-Interest Quote by David Blunkett
• 1 Self-Interest Quote by Warren Farrell
• 1 Self-Interest Quote by Mandy Hale
• 1 Self-Interest Quote by Gough Whitlam
• 1 Self-Interest Quote by Jonathan Kozol
• 1 Self-Interest Quote by Simon Mainwaring
• 1 Self-Interest Quote by Michael Travis
• 1 Self-Interest Quote by John Perry Barlow
• 1 Self-Interest Quote by Victor Davis Hanson
• 1 Self-Interest Quote by Dr Anil Kr Sinha
• 1 Self-Interest Quote by William Sloane Coffin
• 1 Self-Interest Quote by Howell Raines
• 1 Self-Interest Quote by Jayden Hayes