Self Serving Quotes

52 quotes by 52 authors

• New Labour was the most short-sighted, self-serving, incompetent, useless, and ineffective government that Britain has ever known. Make no mistake, Labour's economic policies were a… — Liam Fox
• Reason is poor propaganda when opposed by the yammering, unceasing lies of shrewd and evil and self-serving men. — Robert A. Heinlein
• The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
• We do not hear the term compassionate applied to business executives or entrepreneurs, certainly not when they are engaged in their normal work. Yet in… — Nathaniel Branden
• I used to believe the government was the answer to all our problems. But the . . .government, I've concluded, is now aninsufferable jungle of… — Chet Huntley
• Unsolicited advice is always self-serving. — Amy Dickinson
• The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried, tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama,… — Rush Limbaugh
• Gluttony might be innocuous were it not for the fact that gluttons tend to disregard whether their self-serving behaviors harm anyone else. We don't need… — Simon Mainwaring
• 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
• I do think - as self-serving as it sounds - that I was the right person, given the very, very strong headwind we had from… — Howard Schultz
• There's nothing self-serving about what motivated me to bring 'Schindler's List' to the screen. — Steven Spielberg
• John Boehner is the ultimate Beltway hack, a man whose unmatched and self-serving skill at political survival has made him, after two decades in Washington,… — Matt Taibbi
• In the dark, with the windows lit and the rows of books glittering, the library is a closed space, a universe of self-serving rules that… — Alberto Manguel
• [All the ancient wisdom] tells us that work is necessary to us, as much a part of our condition as mortality; that good work is… — Wendell Berry
• You also know you’re surrendered when you don’t react to criticism and rush to defend yourself. Surrendered hearts show up best in relationships. You don’t… — Rick Warren
• Why else is politics the perfect refuge for every liar, cheat, and self-serving toad that was ever born? All you need is a good set… — Stuart Hill
• At the core, our motives are always self-serving, Kate. Altruism is a fog created by sly minds seeking to benefit from the energy and skill… — Ilona Andrews
• The idea that the creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. ... Substance abusing writers… — Stephen King
• Inquisitiveness is self-serving, Johanna. -Marcus Eaton — Veronica Roth
• People had an illogical, self-serving rationale when it came to interpreting the behavior of others. — Marisha Pessl

Who Wrote These Self Serving Quotes

52 authors contributed a total of 52 Self Serving Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 1 Self Serving Quote by Sean Parker
• 1 Self Serving Quote by Belsebuub
• 1 Self Serving Quote by Liam Fox
• 1 Self Serving Quote by Robert A. Heinlein
• 1 Self Serving Quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt
• 1 Self Serving Quote by Nathaniel Branden
• 1 Self Serving Quote by Chet Huntley
• 1 Self Serving Quote by Amy Dickinson
• 1 Self Serving Quote by Rush Limbaugh
• 1 Self Serving Quote by Simon Mainwaring
• 1 Self Serving Quote by Queen Rania of Jordan
• 1 Self Serving Quote by Howard Schultz
• 1 Self Serving Quote by Steven Spielberg
• 1 Self Serving Quote by Matt Taibbi
• 1 Self Serving Quote by Diane Abbott
• 1 Self Serving Quote by Alberto Manguel
• 1 Self Serving Quote by William J. Clinton
• 1 Self Serving Quote by Wendell Berry
• 1 Self Serving Quote by Martin Gardner
• 1 Self Serving Quote by Rick Warren
• 1 Self Serving Quote by Leo Kadanoff
• 1 Self Serving Quote by Stuart Hill
• 1 Self Serving Quote by Martin Filler
• 1 Self Serving Quote by Ilona Andrews
• 1 Self Serving Quote by James C. Collins