Self Serving Quotes
Self Serving Quote of the day
The United Nations has come under the control of outlaw nations and self-serving special interest groups.
I prefer to rely on my memory. I have lived with that memory a long time, I am used to it, and if I have rearranged or distorted anything, surely that was done for my own benefit.
Repentance is more than just sorrow for the past; repentance is a change of mind and heart, a new life of denying self and serving the Savior as king in self's place.
Reason is poor propaganda when opposed by the yammering, unceasing lies of shrewd and evil and self-serving men.
Serving others breaks you free from the shackles of self and self-absorption that choke out the joy of living.
We need to elect leaders who understand that leadership is about loving and serving people, not about self-advancement.
The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth
Monks transgress the Laws of the Buddha, stir up the common people, store wealth and weapons, and spread rumors; under the guise of religion, they are nothing more than self-serving agitators.
I used to believe the government was the answer to all our problems. But the . . .government, I've concluded, is now aninsufferable jungle of self-serving bureaucrats.
But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving.
People had an illogical, self-serving rationale when it came to interpreting the behavior of others.
Literary criticism is generally bunk. Nonsense. Usually based on self-serving post-intellectual bullshit.
Increasingly, people perceive no difference between the narcissistic self-serving reporters asking questions, and the narcissistic self-serving politicians who evade them.
The power to regulate the value of money does not involve a power to dilute the value of money by inflation, an absurd and self-serving rendering.
I am more more terrified of living a comfortable life in a self-serving society and failing to follow Jesus than I am of any illness or tragedy.
New Labour was the most short-sighted, self-serving, incompetent, useless, and ineffective government that Britain has ever known.
It seems we are suffering from a very narrow and self serving reading of the Gospel right now.
I think people are inherently self-aggrandizing, pleasureseeking, unempathetic, self-serving, greedy and lustful.
What we get in punk these days are layers of 'anti-', and so many of them are so self-serving. It's not about larger freedom.
Selfishness is the controlling force of sinful living. It is this motive which pulsates through the natural mind, emotions and will - self-pleasing, self-serving, living for self.
When you meet silent and inscrutable people, don't tell them what you are thinking. When you meet irritable and self-serving people, be careful what you say.
Is it not the artist who - like our dreams - dissolves the pretenses that hide us from ourselves, disclosing both our self-serving fantasies and our unsuspected potentialities?
The history of psychiatry rewrites itself so often that it almost resembles the self-serving chronicles of a totalitarian and slightly paranoid regime.
I do think that sports is really rich dramatically that, and this is kind of a self-serving thing to say, but I wonder why there aren't more, better sports novels.
I'm suspicious of dreams in books too. Because they're boring and too self-serving.
Philosophy is a bad master for poetry; religion worse; and politics self-serving will never serve the Muse.
If we cover a court case involving a murderer, we would still seek out the side of that murderer, even as we realize that what people say is going to be self-serving.
Lost in the barrage of images and self-serving analysis are the economic and social causes of the conflict.
Only the foolish would think that wisdom is something to keep locked in a drawer. Only the fearful would feel empowerment is something best kept to oneself, or the few, and not shared with all.
The ego is what drives a self-serving individual who hates to admit they are wrong.
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.
A theory is like medicine (or government): often useless, sometimes necessary, always self-serving, and on occasion lethal. So it needs to be used with care, moderation and close adult supervision.
An obese ego is just about the heaviest thing you’ll ever carry. So maybe you should stop feeding it.
A cause that only serves me is much like a door on the edge of a cliff, it doesn’t open to anywhere good.
There is nothing spiritual about a marriage that uses guilt, blame, shame or religious manipulations to keep a relationship together.