Quotes with self-interest

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  • Billy Campbell A great deal of my battle, as an actor, is to whittle away the things that make me self-conscious and try to trick myself into not being self-conscious. So, it's always a challenge, whether I'm lying in a hospital bed or flying around with a rocket pack on my back, or what have you. On the best of days, it's a challenge for me.
    Billy Campbell
    American film and television actor (1959 - )
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  • Andrew Matthews A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.
    Andrew Matthews
    Australian speaker and author of self-help books (1957 - )
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe A little reflection will enable any person to detect in himself that setness in trifles which is the result of the unwatched instinct of self-will and to establish over himself a jealous guardianship.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • Bill Clinton A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.
    U.S. News & World Report, Volume 136, Issues 20-23, 2004
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Anita Brookner A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Clare Boothe Luce A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.
    Clare Boothe Luce
    American diplomat and writer (1903 - 1987)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • George Bernard Shaw A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • B. C. Forbes A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self-denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far.
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • Cass Canfield A publisher should always be on the receiving end. He should take an interest in almost any subject and remain anonymous, letting the author take center stage.
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  • Al Goldstein A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts.
    Al Goldstein
    American pornographer (1936 - 2013)
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  • William Cowper A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Simone Weil A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Thomas Jefferson A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Eric Hoffer A successful social technique consists perhaps in finding unobjectionable means for individual self-assertion.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Gerald G. Jampolsky A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.
    Gerald G. Jampolsky
    American psychiatrist, Lecturer, writer (1925 - 2020)
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  • Alain Badiou A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.
    Alain Badiou
    French philosopher (1937 - )
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  • Alain Badiou A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity.
    Alain Badiou
    French philosopher (1937 - )
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  • John Ciardi A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
    John Ciardi
    American teacher, poet, writer (1916 - 1986)
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  • St. Francis of Assisi Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
    St. Francis of Assisi
    Italian saint, founder of the Franciscan monastic order (1182 - 1226)
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