“Do people really want to make the world a better place?” I asked. “Or do they just want to make a better… — Matthew Mather Copy Share Image
I invest because I love helping entrepreneurs and watching them learn and succeed. In my opinion your motives are driven by self… — Ron Conway Copy Share Image
Lies can be verbal or nonverbal, kindhearted or self-serving, devious or bald-faced; they can be lies of omission or lies of commission;… — Robin Marantz Henig Copy Share Image
I think the potential for the program at the risk of sounding self-serving is large, some would say even limitless, so I'm… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Media bias in editorials and columns is one thing. Media fraud in reporting 'facts' in news stories is something else. ...The issue… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“Usually this kind of self-serving “honesty” will sabotage your success. If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. Realize… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
I do think - as self-serving as it sounds - that I was the right person, given the very, very strong headwind… — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
The world has been tragic since the day Adam and Eve sinned in the garden. From that moment murder, mayhem and war… — Louie Giglio Copy Share Image
Of course you want to drive that out of yourself because you want to be wise, not foolish. You also have to… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
In a true community we will not choose our companions, for our choices are so often limited by self-serving motives. Instead, our… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
Our understanding of what constitutes intelligence is utterly relative. If an aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, for example, all of Western civilization… — John Robbins Copy Share Image
Smart people instinctively understand the dangers of entrusting our future to self-serving leaders who use our institutions, whether in the corporate or… — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
I'm suspicious of dreams in books too. Because they're boring and too self-serving. — Jill Alexander Essbaum Copy Share Image
“Leadership is never an avenue to be self-serving but,a platform to render great service to people.” — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha Copy Share Image
You can't defend the indefensible - anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical. — Diane Abbott Copy Share Image
There's nothing self-serving about what motivated me to bring 'Schindler's List' to the screen. — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
I think Stills has been playing better than ever. I know a lot of it sounds self-serving, but he truly has. — Graham Nash Copy Share Image
Literary criticism is generally bunk. Nonsense. Usually based on self-serving post-intellectual bullshit. — John Fante Copy Share Image
“Unless you contribute beyond yourself, your life will feel perpetually self-serving. It’s” — Joshua Fields Millburn Copy Share Image
I think in your home, you should only use colors that you look good in. It's a little self-serving but think if… — Bryan Batt Copy Share Image
“In every instance, forgiveness morphs into a self-serving tool of manipulation we use to control other people. Inside our clouded minds, we… — Chad Bird Copy Share Image
Im quite self-serving so, while going round a degree show, what I really want to find out is whats going on in… — Grayson Perry Copy Share Image
For me right now I think being the world number one is a bigger deal than being the world champion because I… — Magnus Carlsen Copy Share Image
Love is patent, love is kind. Love is not envious, it does not boast. Neither is it proud. Love is not self… — God Copy Share Image
One of my clearest impressions about India as a child was that my parents' stories would have been impossible had they stayed.… — Anand Giridharadas Copy Share Image
“Pretty normal for a high-achiever to be shut out by superiors for various self-serving reasons. Keep achieving anyways.” — Richie Norton Copy Share Image
I think people are inherently self-aggrandizing, pleasureseeking, unempathetic, self-serving, greedy and lustful. — Park Dietz Copy Share Image
“Love is self-serving – we do all sorts of things for our own comfort and call it love. But revenge is an… — Kathleen Tessaro Copy Share Image
Gluttony might be innocuous were it not for the fact that gluttons tend to disregard whether their self-serving behaviors harm anyone else.… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
Time and again our best and brightest have alerted society to looming problems, but our persistent pattern has been to ignore the… — Eugene Linden Copy Share Image
I am convinced that in order for you, as a patient, to be protected, it has to be transparent, evidence-based, objective information.… — Patrick Soon-Shiong Copy Share Image
Love yourself not in some egocentric, self-serving sense but love yourself the way you would love your friend in the sense of… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“They are part of the slave mentality artfully engineered by priestly propaganda. Dissect your motives deeper! You will find that no one… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“Inside of every being there is a constant war being raged. The part that tell us to do what is right and… — Kinley MacGregor Copy Share Image
I like when there are complicated relationships, that there's a little bit of self-serving parts of it as well as a devotion… — Lisa Kudrow Copy Share Image
“He is dead and I, the self serving coward that I am, still live. Life is not fair. There is no pattern.… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
I am truly amazed that after all this time, religious groups still need to attack entertainment and use these tragedies as a… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
A letter is not a dialogue or even an omniscient exposition. It is a fabric of surfaces, a mask, a form as… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
“Currently our society tends to churn out individuals that tend to ask the system, “What are you going to give or do… — Howe U.S. Army Retired, MSG Paul R Copy Share Image
