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“That we are selfish gives us the opportunity to gain the power so that, in time, we might be selfless. To give back what we have learned. To teach what we know, and shorten the journey for those who will come after us.”

Knows Giving Might Opportunity Teach Journey Gains Selfish Selfishness Selfless Giving Back

Book:I Have Chosen to Stay and Fight

Source: I Have Chosen to Stay and Fight

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

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Book:The Pregnancy Test

Source: The Pregnancy Test

“The selfish leader will attempt to lead others for their own gain and for the detriment of others.”

Leader Gains Selfish

Author:Tom Peters

“Some good leaders are rough around the edges and some leaders are difficult. Some have difficult personalities and some are really nice to be around, but those are not the qualifications. The qualifications are their desire to see us achieve more, their desire to push us to be the best we can be. Not for their selfish gain, but because they believe that we have something to offer.”

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Author:Simon Sinek

“Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.”

Ifs Religious Pleasure Virtue Highest Gains Rewards Sake Selfish Truest

Author:John Henry Newman

“What we really need is somebody who loves us so much we don’t worry about death, or about [anything for that matter]… We need this; we need this so we can love other people purely and not for selfish gain, we need this so we can see everybody as equals, we need this so our relationships can be sincere, we need this so we can stop kicking ourselves around, we need this so we can lose all self-awareness and find ourselves for the first time, not by realizing some dream, but by being told who we are by the only Being who has the authority to know, by that I mean the Creator.”

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Author:Donald Miller

“The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.”

Knows Feels Country Spirit Passion Business Principles Acceptance Gains Selfish Commerce

Book:The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin

Source: The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin

“Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.”

Love Persons Self Joy Values Love Is Existence Love You Self Esteem Expression Gains Mere Response Selfish Esteem One Love Assertion

Book:The Virtue of Selfishness

Source: The Virtue of Selfishness

“If workers struggle for higher wages, this is hailed as "social gains", if businessmen struggle for higher profits, this is damned as "selfish greed".”

Ifs Social Liberty Struggle Higher Gains Workers Greed Profit Libertarian Selfish Libertarianism Businessman Wages

Book:Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

Source: Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal