"If men will not act for themselves,..." - Quote by Elbert Hubbard
If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all?
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More on Action
“Any Idiot can point out a problem .... A leader is willing to do something about it! Leaders solve problems!”
“If we are not a part of the solution, then we are the problem”
“Whatever you do in your daily life - driving from here to there, trying to reach someone on the phone, doing this or that - you always are going toward somewhere. That's inevitable.”
More on Self Interest
“Even the most disinterested love is, after all, but a kind of bargain, in which self-love always proposes to be the gainer one wayor another.”
“It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself." ~ Goethe”
“There is something to be said for jealousy, because it only designs the preservation of some good which we either have or think wehave a right to. But envy is a raging madness that cannot bear the wealth or fortune of others.”