Self Interest Quotes

Take from others what you want, but never be a disciple of anyone.

I don't care as much for what I am to others as I do for what I am to myself.

Self-interest blinds some people, and makes others see.

The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts -- the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria -- are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy.

Do not neglect your own needs for someone else's... And recognize your needs so you will know what to do.

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 consider what sort of world you are part of, and from what kind of governor of it you are descended; that you have a set period assigned you to act in, and unless you improve it to brighten and compose your thoughts, it will quickly run off with you, and be lost beyond recovery.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognizes infinite variety of type as a delightful thing, accepts it, acquiesces in it, enjoys it.

Long before Einstein told us that matter is energy, Machiavelli and Hobbes and other modern political philosophers defined man as a lump of matter whose most politically relevant attribute is a form of energy called self-interestedness. This was not a.

The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race.

A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.