Personal Interest Quotes

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  We can each define ambition and progress for ourselves. The goal is to work toward a world where expectations are not set by the stereotypes that hold us back, but by our personal passion, talents and interests.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Passion, Ambition, Goal

  "Sandberg: Speak up, believe in yourself, take risks" by Sheryl Sandberg, www.cnn.com. March 18, 2013.

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• You're not patriotic just because you back whoever's in power today or their policies. You're patriotic when you work to improve the lives of the people of your country, your community and your family. Sometimes that means making hard choices, choices that go against your personal interest.

  Edward Snowden

  Country, Patriotic, Mean

  Source: www.thenation.com

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• What interests me is the sense of the darkness that we carry within us, the darkness that's akin to one of the principal subjects of the sublime - terror

  Anish Kapoor

  Darkness, Sublime, Interest

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• A true brave man is the one who dares to work against personal-interest.

  Khem Veasna

  Men, Brave, Dare

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• We are not saved by nations or by churches or by families, but as individuals, through a personal interest in a personal Saviour.

  John Angell James

  Church, Individual, Interest

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 226, 1895.

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• One’s concern with the ethics of means and ends varies inversely with one’s personal interest in the issue.

  Saul Alinsky

  Mean, Issues, Ethics

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• Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.

  Earl Nightingale

  Motivational, Hard Work, Passion

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• The full life depends, not on the range of experience but on the intensity of the interest, the emotion involved, and on its being a personal interest.

  Ann Bridge

  Passion, Emotion, Intensity

  Ann Bridge (2013). “Singing Waters”, p.174, A&C Black

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• For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and personal interests so that we can really demonstrate to other African states that it is possible to share power without going to war.

  Wangari Maathai

  War, People, Ego

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Don't ally your personal interests with the development of the company.

  Wang Jianlin

  Allies, Development, Interest

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• If experience teaches anything, it is that what the community undertakes to do is usually done badly. This is due in part to the temptation to corruption that such enterprises involve, but even more, perhaps, to the lack of personal interest on the part of those engaged in them.

  Suzanne La Follette

  Community, Temptation, Society

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• The issues which mattered to me as an activist, mainly things like prison reform and AIDS, have less of a chance of getting covered on my show than things I don't have a personal interest in. It's because I don't trust my antenna about being a good storyteller on those subjects, because I know a lot and therefore lose touch with what the average person might find interesting about them.

  Rachel Maddow

  Average, Issues, Interesting

  "The Lenny Interview: Rachel Maddow". Interview with Grace Dunham, www.yahoo.com. April 21, 2016.

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• I have an intense personal interest in making the use of American capital in the development of China an instrument for the promotion of the welfare of China, and an increase in her material prosperity without entanglements or creating embarrassment affecting the growth of her independent political power, and the preservation of her territorial integrity.

  William Howard Taft

  Integrity, Independent, Creating

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• 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

  Jesus, Real, Heaven

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.114, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I leave the governor's office next week, and with it public life[which] has been on the whole a pleasant one. But for ten years and over my salaries have not equalled my expenses, and there has been a feeling of responsibility, a lack of independence, and a necessary neglect of my family and personal interests and comfort, which make the prospect of a change comfortable to think of.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Responsibility, Thinking, Next Week

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• At the higher stage of communism, when the productive forces will be greatly developed and the principle "from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" will be practised, personal interests will be acknowledged still more and more personal needs will be satisfied.

  Deng Xiaoping

  Principles, Needs, Communism

  Source: blog.hiddenharmonies.org

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• If the members who compose a society lived on continuously, they might educate the new-born members, but it would be a task directed by personal interest rather than social need. Now it is a work of necessity.

  John Dewey

  Tasks, Would Be, Needs

  John Dewey (2012). “Democracy and Education”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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• Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Tolerance, Apathy, Brotherly

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The pursuit of humor and other essays”

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• It seems to me like a perversion of talent for an artist of any kind to further the corporate structure of America or the personal interests of the morons and thieves who run it.

  George Carlin

  Running, Artist, America

  Interview with Sam Merrill, reprints.longform.org. January 1982.

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• When I was a kid, I used to live in New York City. There was a guy named Michael Alig. He used to throw parties. And a couple of times, I even worked for him and his crew, and handed out fliers, and had my super-high shoes on, and wearing silver Saran Wrap around my head or something. It's a world I was really comfortable in: a world full of individuals. I think what I like about that world - besides my own personal interests - is the individualism, the investment in the self.

  Jared Leto

  New York, Couple, Party

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• I have made it a principle to give advice that does not serve my personal interest but rather the common interests.

  George Soros

  Giving, Advice, Principles

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The organization of supplies, the command of men, anything in any way constructive requires more than intellect; it requires energy and drive and an unrelenting will to serve the cause, regardless of one's personal interests.

  Erwin Rommel

  Men, Organization, Energy

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• One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat. Ay any rate, if it is heat it ought to be white heat and not sputter, because sputtering heat is apt to spread the fire. There ought, if there is any heat at all, to be that warmth of the heart which makes every man thrust aside his own personal feeling, his own personal interest, and take thought of the welfare and benefit of others.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Heart, Men, Fire

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• Sympathy is the first great lesson which man should learn. It will be ill for him if he proceeds no farther; if his emotions are but excited to roll back on his heart, and to be fostered in luxurious quiet. But unless he learns to feel for things in which he has no personal interest, he can achieve nothing generous or noble.

  Thomas Noon Talfourd

  Sympathy, Heart, Men

  Thomas Noon Talfourd (1848). “Critical and Miscellaneous Writings”, p.5

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• There are at the present time two great nations in the world--the Russians and the Americans. The American relies upon his personal interest to accomplish his ends and gives free scope to the unguided exertions and common sense of the people. The Russian centers all his authority of society in a single arm. The principal instrument of the former is freedom; of the latter, servitude. Their starting point is different and their courses are not the same; yet each of them seems marked by the will of Heaven to sway the destinies of half the globe.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Destiny, Two, Rely Upon

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