Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right. — John Milton
Individual Ambition Serves the Common Good. — Adam Smith
Profit is the payment you get when you take advantage of change. — Joseph A. Schumpeter
The world is so full of people who are grabbing and self-seeking. So the rare individual who unselfishly tries to serve others has an enormous advantage. He has little competition. — Dale Carnegie
No success or achievement in material terms is worthwhile unless it serves the needs or interests of the country and its people and is achieved by fair and honest means. — J. R. D. Tata
The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period. — Todd Gitlin
If one is guided by profit in one's actions, one will incur much ill will. — Confucius
If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks he actually owns the news you get, it is against the national interest. — Jimmy Breslin
For them to perceive the advantage of defeating the enemy, they must also have their rewards. — Sun Tzu
Although a goal must carry great personal meaning, in my experience, the pursuit of that goal is best served when it is also in service to something beyond the self. — Rich Roll
It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain — Robert Kennedy
The road to profits is paved with unfair advantages. — Lewis Howes
Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity. — Barry Goldwater
What Is Personal Quotes
Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way. — Martin Luther King
You alone are the judge of your worth and your goal is to discover infinite worth in yourself, no matter what anyone else thinks. — Deepak Chopra
I'm a kind person, I'm kind to everyone, but if you are unkind to me, then kindness is not what you'll remember me for — Al Capone
The strongest person is not the one who is able to do something, but the one who is able not to do what he has the power to do. This self-denial is the unique way to usher in God's kingdom and to realize the kingdom life. — Witness Lee
A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do. — Bob Dylan
Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.
The most important thing I learned is that soldiers watch what their leaders do. You can give them classes and lecture them forever, but it is your personal example they will follow. — Colin Powell
And if a person were given all of the world and what is in it, it would not fill his emptiness. — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
My thing is that I don't give no person that much power over my path that I'm walking. Not one person can make or break what I'm doing, except me or God. — Nipsey Hussle
...a person and an organization must have goals, take actions to achieve those goals, gather evidence of achievement, study and reflect on the data and from that take actions again. Thus, they are in a continuous feedback spiral toward continuous improvement. This is what 'Kaizan' means. — W. Edwards Deming
We hear a constant clamor for rights, rights, always rights, but so very little about responsibility. And we have forgotten God. The need now is for selflessness, for a spirit of sacrifice, for a willingness to put aside personal gains for the salvation of the whole Western world. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the person with disease, we gain wisdom about life. — Oliver Sacks
If we grow wiser and more learned in our intercourse with wise and learned persons, how much more will we gain in our inner life by communing with God in prayer. — Huldrych Zwingli
To love a person is to see all of their magic, and to remind them of it when they have forgotten.
A hobby is, of course, an abomination, as are all consuming interests and passions that do not lead directly to large, personal gain. — Fran Lebowitz
A person who sins neither in thought nor deed, and is fair and just, gains enormous courage and strength. As a leader, you need courage born of integrity in order to be capable of powerful leadership. To achieve this courage, you must search your heart, and make sure your conscience is clear and your behavior is beyond reproach. — Konosuke Matsushita
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 accomplish so resolute an action, you have to stake your life, giving no thought to personal gain or loss. — Yukio Mishima
You build trust with others each time you choose integrity over image, truth over convenience, or honor over personal gain. — John C. Maxwell
Most people think happiness is about gaining something, but it's not. It's all about getting rid of the darkness you accumulate. — Carolyn Crane
Millions of people are competing for each available dollar of investment gain. Who’ll get it? The person who’s a step ahead. — Howard S. Marks
It's an honour and a privilege to meet people who look at you as their idol , they actually lose weight and gain muscle because of you. I can only tell them thank you for letting me be that person for them. — Phil Heath
Saying No gains you respect. When you say No, the other person may feel disappointed. But ultimately, they will respect you for taking good care of yourself. And most of all, you'll respect yourself because you are being true to yourself! — Doreen Virtue
The charlatan takes very different shapes according to circumstances; but at bottom he is a man who cares nothing about knowledge for its own sake, and only strives to gain the semblance of
it that he may use it for his own personal ends, which are always selfish and material. — Arthur Schopenhauer
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 magnify love, openness, and depth. — David Deida
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 is empty if you do not feel you have positively touched another's life. — Barbara Walters
The paradox is that we have this amazing capacity in our minds and hearts to learn and gain insights and then to build a kind of personal storehouse of knowledge. The underside is that those insights harden and fill the spaces in our hearts and minds. They become assumptions, conclusions and judgments. — Mark Nepo
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 to be generous and loving. Love and faith go together, they complete each other. — Mother Teresa
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 the intellect to divine the ultimate secrets of nature gives meaning enough to life. — Michio Kaku
My family had all kinds of complications in relationships. I would like to meet the person who did not. Since when is being absolutely perfect what being a human is? What do we gain from that? — Anthony Edwards
Trust emerges when we have a sense that another person or organization is driven by things other than their own self-gain. — Simon Sinek
Nothing brings families together faster than forgiveness. That should make it Step No. 1, but most of us find forgiving hard. We associate it with weakness and losing when, actually, the reverse is true. When you forgive, you gain strength and come out a winner. You break free of control by the other person's actions. — Joyce Brothers
Love...no such thing. Whatever it is that binds families and married couples together, that's not love. That's stupidity or selfishness or fear. Love doesn't exist. Self interest exists, attachment based on personal gain exists, complacency exists. But not love. Love has to be reinvented, that’s certain. — Arthur Rimbaud
Follow your heart's truth with no need for personal gain other than the feeling produced when doing what you truly love. — Sayings
An act of renunciation is an act of union with God. The Divine Master looks lovingly upon a person who gains a victory over self. — Madeleine Sophie Barat
A person who wills to have a good will, already has a good will--in its rudiments. There is solid satisfaction in knowing that the mere desire to get out of an old habit is a material advance upon the condition of submergence in that habit. The longest step toward cleanliness is made when one gains--nothing but dissatisfaction with dirt. — William Ernest Hocking
Laughter is a release of tension. When influencing, make the other person laugh; you'll gain rapport instantly. — Marshall Sylver
It was not easy for a person brought up in the ways of classical thermodynamics to come around to the idea that gain of entropy eventually is nothing more nor less than loss of information. — Gilbert N. Lewis
Solve the problem yourself or accept a fate you may not like... from this perspective, the ethic of personal responsibility gains appeal. — Noel Tichy
People who acquire things beyond their usefulness not only will derive little or no marginal gains from these acquisitions, but they also will experience negative consequences, as with any form of gluttony. — Ray Dalio
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative. — Robert Kiyosaki
The great German scholar Helmut Thielicke once said that a person who speaks to this hour’s need will always be skirting the edge of heresy, but only the person who risks those heresies can gain the truth. — Rob Bell
But man as a person, the same man, gains mastery over egocentric self-confinement by disclosing a universe in himself...Personality is a universe, it is filled with universal content. — Nikolai Berdyaev
The unique personality which is the real life in me, I cannot gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. — Felix Adler
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
Once a person gains experience and a good reputation, it takes less and less money to create bigger and bigger investments. — Robert Kiyosaki
Our politics suffers from a shortage of people who put character and country before career and personal gain. — Cal Thomas
There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all. — Ben Horowitz
Through persistent, effective, and diligent work, a person can accumulate knowledge in the form of facts, data, information, and experience. Intelligence, however, can only be gained through obedience. Thus, knowledge is a prerequisite to and foundation for true spiritual intelligence. — David A. Bednar
The first time you do anything, people always take a minute to try to figure it out, but once you witness it in person, the word starts to spread and it gains momentum year after year. — Darren Criss
Jesus, it is true, shows no personal interest in gain, but he does speak of treasure in heaven and even of mansions as an inducement to follow him. Is it not further true that all religions down the ages have shown a keen interest in the amassment of material goods in the real world? — Christopher Hitchens
I have no personal interest or gain from this , I am just an actor — Sayings
A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses. — Carlo M. Cipolla
I believe in the essential unity of all that lives. Therefore, I believe that if one person gains spiritually, the whole world gains, and that if one person falls, the whole world falls to that extent. — Mahatma Gandhi
Cutting, and suicide, two very different symptoms of the same problem, are gaining on us. I personally don't know a single person who doesn't know at least two of these victims personally. — Pink
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