Personal Gain Quotes

• You build trust with others each time you choose integrity over image, truth over convenience, or honor over personal gain.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Integrity, Character

  FaceBook post by John C. Maxwell from Feb 11, 2016

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• Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected; Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it; Refusing to set aside trivial preferences; Neglecting development and refinement of the mind; Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Crush, Mistake, Believe

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• 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

  Faith, Together, Selfishness

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• 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

  Differences, Principles, Literature

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• There is nothing more personal than your values. What you will and won't do to get ahead, the lines you will and won't cross to win, whom you will and won't step on for personal gain, are at the very core of your code of honor. And your code of honor determines your character. And your character is who you are. Behind closed doors. When nobody is watching.

  Patti LaBelle

  Character, Winning, Doors

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• 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

  Dream, Helping Others, Gains

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• I think perfect love is any time you love unconditionally, without selfish intent, without concern for personal gain.

  Erin McCarthy

  Selfish, Love Is, Thinking

  Erin McCarthy (2005). “The Pregnancy Test”, p.108, Kensington Books

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• It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain

  Robert Kennedy

  Responsibility, Essence, Gains

  Robert F. Kennedy (1964). “The Pursuit of Justice”, New York : Harper & Row

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• Follow your heart's truth with no need for personal gain other than the feeling produced when doing what you truly love.

  Keke Palmer

  Heart, Feelings, Needs

  "Keke Palmer of 'Crazy Sexy Cool: The TLC Story' – Krazy about Keke!". Interview with Kam Williams, www.philasun.com. October 25, 2013.

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• Our politics suffers from a shortage of people who put character and country before career and personal gain.

  Cal Thomas

  Country, Character, Careers

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• 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

  Wisdom, Responsibility, Sacrifice

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• Deceit for personal gain is one of history's most recurring crimes. Man's first step towards change would be thinking, counter-arguing, re-thinking, twisting, straightening, perfecting, then believing every original idea he intends to make public before making it public. There is always an angle from which an absolute truth may appear askew just as there is always a personal emotion, or a personal agenda, which alienates the ultimate good of mankind.

  Criss Jami

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.65, Criss Jami

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• I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it. I would hope to act with compassion without thinking of personal gain.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Thinking, Compassion, Gains

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• 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

  Blessed, People, Giving

  FaceBook post by Dr. Michio Kaku from Feb 16, 2010

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• Everyone here would die for the sake of truth. Everyone here lies constantly for the tiniest chance of personal gain. This is what it means to be a scientist.

  Greg Egan

  Lying, Mean, Sake

  "The Demon's Passage" by Greg Egan, eidolon.net. July 1991.

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• To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Integrity, Artist, Depth

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• So long as people do not consider all men as their brothers and do not consider human life as the most sacred thing, which rather than destroy they must consider it their first and foremost duty to support; that is so long as people do not behave towards one another in a religious manner, they will always ruin one another's lives for the sake of personal gain.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Religious, Brother, Men

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• 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

  Men, World, Way

  David Deida (2008). “The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.33, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The point is to create a system where individuals don't work simply for money or personal gain but to support the planet and its inhabitants in entering the next stage of evolutionary progression.

  Michael Beckwith

  Karma, Support, Entering

  Michael Bernard Beckwith (2009). “Spiritual Liberation: Fulfilling Your Soul's Potential”, p.190, Simon and Schuster

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• In their pure form, the martial arts demand the intense awareness of the meditative mind, and have nothing to do with anger or wanton aggression. A practitioner is taught from the outset that the skills must never be used for personal gain, but only in self-defence or in the protection of others -- and even then only enough force as is absolutely necessary should be used.

  David Fontana

  Art, Self, Skills

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• If 'heartache' sounds exaggerated then surely you have never gone to your garden one rare morning in June to find that the frost, without any perceptible motive, any hope of personal gain, has quietly killed your strawberry blossoms, tomatoes, lima and green beans, corn, squash, cucumbers. A brilliant sun is now smiling at this disaster with an insenstive cheerfulness as out of place as a funny story would be if someone you loved had just died.

  Ruth Stout

  Morning, Garden, June

  Ruth Stout (1987). “How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back: A New Method of Mulch Gardening”, Fireside

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• Playing games with agreed upon rules helps children learn to live by rules, establish the delicate balance between competition andcooperation, between fair play and justice and exploitation and abuse of these for personal gain. It helps them learn to manage the warmth of winning and the hurt of losing; it helps them to believe that there will be another chance to win the next time.

  James P. Comer

  Hurt, Children, Believe

  James P. Comer (1995). “School Power: Implications of an Intervention Project”

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• 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

  Passion, Hobbies, Gains

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.175, Vintage

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• My father was the only man I ever knew who really loved me unselfishly, who never used me for personal gain.

  Jayne Mansfield

  Father, Men, Gains

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Courage is......following your conscience instead of "following the crowd." Sacrificing personal gain for the benefit of others. Speaking your mind even though others don't agree. Taking complete responsibility for your actions and your mistakes. Doing what you know is right, regardless of the consequence.

  Eric Harvey

  Inspirational, Mistake, Responsibility

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