Park Bo-gum Quotes

Kindness is weak when you use it in a self-serving manner. Self-serving kindness is thin - people can see right through it when a kind leader has an agenda.

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.

It's when someone has an agenda of their own for the record that it doesn't work for me.

The majority of people call or message me because they need something or they want something. You never know what people's intentions are.

People only speak to get something. If I say, Let me tell you a few things about myself, already your defenses go up; you go, Look, I wonder what he wants from me, because no one ever speaks except to obtain an objective. That's the only reason anyone ever opens their mouth, onstage or offstage. They may use a language that seems revealing, but if so, it's just coincidence, because what they're trying to do is accomplish an objective.

People only speak to get something.

People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want.

Everybody has an agenda.

We have to look at our history and realize that if they pretend to be our friend it's because they've got something up their sleeve.

favors are always for ourselves. Especially when we ask for things for other people.

The person giving the advice returns the confidence placed in him with a disinterested eagerness... and he is usually guided only by his own interest or reputation.

He who goes round about in his requests wants commonly more than he chooses to appear to want.

Men frequently do good only to give themselves opportunity of doing ill with impunity.

Beware of anyone who claims to be neutral, for they always have an agenda.

There is undoubtedly a difference between people who manipulate other people and people who create things.

I am a people's person. I consume people.

Look, at the end of the day, we do what we do because it suits us.

I feel like, especially in Hollywood, you meet people with ulterior motives, who are trying to get something from you.

Gratitude, in most men, is only a strong and secret hope of greater favors.

Agree with everything, explain nothing, then do what is best for you.

It's all about what they can get out of me.

What is portrayed as high-minded positions on issues sometimes is just designed to carve out some of their commercial interests.

We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbor with those virtues that are likely to benefit ourselves. We praise the banker that we may overdraw our account, and find good qualities in the highwayman in the hope that he may spare our pockets.

There is hook in every benefit, that sticks in his jaws that takes that benefit, and draws him whither the benefactor will.