Quotes on Personal Gain

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.

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.

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

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.

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