Greg Gutfeld Quotes

We must take man as we find him, and if we expect him to serve the public we must interest his passions in doing so.

Experts are human, and humans respond to incentives. How any given expert treats you, therefore, will depend on how that expert's incentives are set up.

When there is a choice about it, a great sacrifice is preferable to a small sacrifice, because we compensate ourselves for a greatone with self-admiration, which is not possible with a small one.

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'

Heroic people take risks to themselves to help others. There's nothing heroic about accepting $5 million to go out and run around chasing a ball, although you may show fortitude or those other qualities while you do it.

I don't know if it's ever OK for someone to be selfish. Perhaps there's a time and place to be self-centered, but I think selfish never wins the race.

Look, I would say that anyone who does this work and doesn't have a strain of idealism is an adrenaline junkie or completely narcissistic. There is no other justification. You're risking your life, and if anything happens, it's our families who suffer tremendously.

However, there's three reasons for doing things in this particular world. One is love, one is prestige and the other's money. If you get all three together, that's fine.

In the military, they give medals for people who are willing to sacrifice themselves so that others may survive. In business, we give bonuses to people who sacrifice others.

People aren't universally heroic.

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient.

Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do!

People who get involved with the success of something have to be given at least some share of that success.

No man will work for your interests unless they are his.

For them to perceive the advantage of defeating the enemy, they must also have their rewards.

To be interested in the public good we must be disinterested, that is, not interested in goods in which our personal selves are wrapped up.

Heroes represent the best of ourselves, respecting that we are human beings. A hero can be anyone from Gandhi to your classroom teacher, anyone who can show courage when faced with a problem. A hero is someone who is willing to help others in his or her best capacity.

A lot of people, some of them close to me as well, have said that I sacrificed myself by doing what I did in bringing Terry on board. I didn't see it that way.

I have a lot of offers to play for appearance fees. It's nice gravy, but it's not a big motivating factor for me, to go here and there just for money.

In order to maintain my own self-respect, I had to dedicate my life to something that was greater than my own self-interest.

There is a basic idea to this fighting spirit: that there are standards worth devoting yourself to that are more important than your self-interest.

From the time I was growing up, if I felt that there was some, like, pot of gold waiting for me, I don't know that I would have been so motivated.

I have never cared very much for personal prizes. A person does not become a freedom fighter in the hope of winning awards.