Self Serving Quotes
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That is the honest nature of friendship. That is when it becomes sincere, and not self-serving.
— R.A. Salvatore
Serving others breaks you free from the shackles of self and self-absorption that choke out the joy of living.
— James Hunter
Reason is poor propaganda when opposed by the yammering, unceasing lies of shrewd and evil and self-serving men.
— Heinlein Robert A.
All explanations tend to be self-serving.
— Marty Rubin
Unsolicited advice is always self-serving.
— Amy Dickinson
We need to separate the process of evolution - which is, indeed, a self-serving process - and the actual motivations of animals.
— Frans De Waal
A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.
— William J. Clinton
When a leader keeps personal ego in check it builds the confidence and self-esteem of others.
— Ken Jennings
Literary criticism is generally bunk. Nonsense. Usually based on self-serving post-intellectual bullshit.
— John Fante
There's nothing self-serving about what motivated me to bring 'Schindler's List' to the screen.
— Steven Spielberg
By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive - and that precludes everything.
— Queen Rania Of Jordan
The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Leadership is never an avenue to be self-serving but,a platform to render great service to people.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
If you don't allow for self-serving bias in the conduct of others, you are, again, a fool.
— Charlie Munger
the greatest danger to America's future came from self-serving opportunism masquerading as patriotism. At
— Nathaniel Philbrick
The United Nations has come under the control of outlaw nations and self-serving special interest groups.
— Ginny Brown-Waite
The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth
— Che Guevara
Prayer is not about asking what you want, but what God wants.
— Shannon L. Alder
People had an illogical, self-serving rationale when it came to interpreting the behavior of others.
— Marisha Pessl
There is nothing spiritual about a marriage that uses guilt, blame, shame or religious manipulations to keep a relationship together.
— Shannon L. Alder
Pure generosity is when you help the ingrate. Every other form is self-serving.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
In the worldly life, self-serving pride (swa-maan) is considered a good quality and arrogant pride (abhimaan) as a bad quality.
— Dada Bhagwan
As a Christian, there is no other part of the New Right ideology that concerns me more than its self-serving misuse of religious faith.
— Mark Hatfield
I never saw men act with such ignorance, violence and self-serving malice as when energised by a just cause.
— Joe Abercrombie
I think it's a self-serving effort to put a political agenda above the safety of our law enforcement officers.
— Todd Tiahrt
awareness of a problem does not mean much - particularly when you have special interests and self-serving institutions in play.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I think people are inherently self-aggrandizing, pleasureseeking, unempathetic, self-serving, greedy and lustful.
— Park Dietz
You can be yourself without pursuing yourself. Have you ever seen a dog chase his own tail? He just runs in circles.
— Criss Jami
Self-justification and judging others go together, as justification by grace and serving others go together.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I think Stills has been playing better than ever. I know a lot of it sounds self-serving, but he truly has.
— Graham Nash
The shortest short-term investment is to serve ourselves.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Lost in the barrage of images and self-serving analysis are the economic and social causes of the conflict.
— Michel Chossudovsky
An apology given just to appease one's conscience is self-serving and better left unspoken!
— Evinda Lepins
We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self.
— Cyril Connolly
So the highest and the happiest of endeavors is to be a philosopher ? Doesn't it seem self-serving for a philosopher to make that claim?
— Irvin D. Yalom
The sages may have been self-serving, like the rest of us, but that doesn't mean they weren't sages.
— Robert Wright
The beautiful thing is that you can change your self-image, just like you can change everything else in your life if it is not serving to enhance it.
— Robin S. Sharma
Nothing clears out self-righteousness better than serving someone who is critical of you.
— Paul E. Miller
An obese ego is just about the heaviest thing you'll ever carry. So maybe you should stop feeding it.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
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[E]mpathy - not squishy self-serving conflict avoidance - is the hand-maiden, not the enemy, of reason and intellectual inquiry.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
Inquisitiveness is self-serving, Johanna. -Marcus Eaton
— Veronica Roth
You can't defend the indefensible - anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical.
— Diane Abbott
I'm suspicious of dreams in books too. Because they're boring and too self-serving.
— Jill Alexander Essbaum
You are at liberty to develop yourself when you are self employed
— Sunday Adelaja
Self-serving mentality hinders from fulfilling kingdom mandate
— Sunday Adelaja
You must understand the immense power of self-serving delusion." I
— Jeremy Robert Johnson
The FBI, to its credit in a self-serving sort of way, rejects the routine use of the polygraph on its own people.
— Aldrich Ames
Self-serving biases and self-centered agendas are cotton jammed in the ears of our conscience. Even if truth shouts, we can't hear it.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving.
— Mark Strand
Change comes from dedicated, ordinary people, in the trenches, serving a cause greater than self.
— Linda Bender
Self-esteem is important because it sets up a powerful cycle of personal growth and willingness to take risks.
— Ken Jennings
Gaia wasn't ruthless and self-serving like Caine; she was evil, like Drake. A psychopath. A mad and terrible beast.
— Michael Grant
