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  • I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.

    Charles Dudley Warner (2006). “My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.83, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • Be careful of selfish motives. You can mistake them for principles and end up dying for them.

  • Those who joined us for selfish personal reasons, for a career or other motives will be the ones to leave.

  • Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

    Peace   War   Stupid  
  • Every selfish motive therefore, every family attachment, ought to recommend such a system of policy as would provide no less carefully for the rights and happiness of the lowest than of the highest orders of Citizens.

    "The Journal of the Debates in the Convention which Framed the Constitution of the United States, May-September, 1787", Volume 2, as recorded by James Madison, 1908.
  • People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.

  • The Man who works for others, without any selfish motive, really does good to himself.

    Selfish   Men   Doe  
    Ramakrishna, Mahendra Nath Gupta (1942). “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna”, Ramakrishna Vivekanada Center
  • The trouble with selfish motives is that they harden into principles, and you end up sending your kids to war for them.

    Selfish   War   Kids  
  • If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

    People   May   Be Kind  
  • We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.

  • God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.

  • If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts get politicised? I have values I inherited from my father. He helped many. Anyone, even a postman knocking on our door would get a glass of water and some sweets.

    Sweet   Father   Selfish  
  • People who really want help may attack you if you help them. Help them anyway.

    People   May   Want  
  • Selfishness, not love, is the actuating motive of the gallant.

  • The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.

  • Meditation without selfless giving is not enough. You may go into very high states of consciousness but the rough edges will still be there - there may be lots of selfish motives lurking within the self - that you don't see.

    Karma   Selfish   Yoga  
  • The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.

    Mahatma Gandhi (1930). “Young India”
  • What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway.

  • If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; Be honest and frank anyway.

  • If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives: Be kind anyway. If you are successful you will win some false friends and true enemies: Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank people will try to cheat you: Be honest anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight: Build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous of you: Be happy anyway. The good you do today, will often be forgotten by tomorrow: Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough: Give your best anyway.

  • Give the world the best you have and you may get hurt. Give the world your best anyway.

  • Sri Yukteswar used to poke gentle fun at the commonly inadequate conceptions of renunciation."A beggar cannot renounce wealth," Master would say. "If a man laments: 'My business has failed; my wife has left me; I will renounce all and enter a monastery,' to what worldly sacrifice is he referring? He did not renounce wealth and love; they renounced him!"Saints like Gandhi, on the other hand, have made not only tangible material sacrifices, but also the more difficult renunciation of selfish motive and private goal, merging their inmost being in the stream of humanity as a whole.

    Fun   Selfish   Sacrifice  
    Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda (2008). “Autobiography of a Yogi”, p.425, Diamond Pocket Books (P) Ltd.
  • People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered. Love them anyway.... Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway.... What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. .. Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you've got anyway.

    Honesty   Self   Years  
  • Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for selfish motives

  • I talk to groups studying the most advanced spiritual teachings and sometimes these people wonder why nothing is happening in their lives. Their motive is the attainment of inner peace for themselves - which of course is a selfish motive. You will not find it with this motive. The motive, if you are to find inner peace, must be an outgoing motive. Service, of course, service. Giving, not getting. Your motive must be good if your work is to have good effect. The secret of life is being of service.

    Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.17, Friends of Peace PIlgrim
  • Almost every sinful action ever committed can be traced back to a selfish motive. It is a trait we hate in other people but justify in ourselves.

    Marriage   Hate   Selfish  
    Stephen Kendrick, Alex Kendrick (2008). “The Love Dare”, p.11, B&H Publishing Group
  • Honesty and transparency make you vulnerable. Be honest and transparent anyway.

  • If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway.

    Mother Teresa (1995). “A Simple Path-Open Market”
  • Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

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