Top 40 Self-Serving Quotes

When I’m writing, I can always play around with tense. I can always make past present. I can always kind of manipulate, and I can always be delusional in a way that’s completely self-serving. With film, it’s like, the camera can’t really lie. It can manipulate to a certain extent.

The United Nations has come under the control of outlaw nations and self-serving special interest groups.

When I’m writing, I can always play around with tense. I can always make past present. I can always kind of manipulate, and I can always be delusional in a way that’s completely self-serving. With film, it’s like, the camera can’t really lie. It can manipulate to a certain extent.

The United Nations has come under the control of outlaw nations and self-serving special interest groups.

‘A Just Defiance’ has been a huge success in South Africa. While reading at times like a well-written thriller, its significance is to reveal apartheid to have been far more brutal, ruthless, and self-serving even than we had suspected.

I think in your home, you should only use colors that you look good in. It’s a little self-serving but think if it as you’re on a stage. Not with any pressure, but you want to showcase yourself.

Lies can be verbal or nonverbal, kindhearted or self-serving, devious or bald-faced; they can be lies of omission or lies of commission; they can be lies that undermine national security or lies that make a child feel better. And each type might involve a unique neural pathway.

I think the potential for the program at the risk of sounding self-serving is large, some would say even limitless, so I’m excited about it and I think it can even pass next year.

‘A Just Defiance’ has been a huge success in South Africa. While reading at times like a well-written thriller, its significance is to reveal apartheid to have been far more brutal, ruthless, and self-serving even than we had suspected.

I think the potential for the program at the risk of sounding self-serving is large, some would say even limitless, so I’m excited about it and I think it can even pass next year.

I do think – as self-serving as it sounds – that I was the right person, given the very, very strong headwind we had from the economy and our own issues, to come back and rewrite the future of the company.

We have to replace our focus on personalities with a focus on ideas so that the opinionated and self-serving pronouncements and forms of cyber-bullying are replaced by thoughtful dialogue and open-minded conversation.

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, your agenda is not new. It’s not change, and it’s not hope.

But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious – never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving.

We can no more condone the wastefulness of self-serving company executives than we can the sacrifice of the lives of our citizens in a senseless war.

Actors can be many things – vain, venal, self-serving, obnoxious, bullies – but all of the good ones are great storytellers.

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.

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, the hairy blue mold on the American congressional sandwich.

We have too much respect for our father to make a Bush Beer or write books or do anything that’s self-serving. I know all of us will avoid any appearance of a conflict of interest with the government and bend over backward to stay out of the news.

Takers are self-serving in their interactions. It’s all about what can you do for me.

The FBI, to its credit in a self-serving sort of way, rejects the routine use of the polygraph on its own people.

I do think – as self-serving as it sounds – that I was the right person, given the very, very strong headwind we had from the economy and our own issues, to come back and rewrite the future of the company.

It would be incredibly presumptuous and self-serving of me to believe that Facebook was the end of history. The only way it could possibly be the end of history is if it becomes some sort of artificial super intelligence that takes over the world.

I don’t like memoirs. I think they’re self-serving, and people use them to settle scores, and I really tried not to do that. You have to have a really interesting life to justify memoir, and my life has been pretty ho-hum.

Many feel that in today’s climate some of those in authority are exercising, in effect, a self-serving, ‘ends justify the means’ mindset as well, and that, in turn, empowers them to do the same.

A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.

The global ‘currency wars’ are likely here to stay due to the fine line between legitimate monetary balancing and sometimes self-serving trade manipulation. But these artificial mechanisms lack tangible or lasting value.

A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.

At some point, I’d like to make a record that’s more of a self-serving guitar album, because I really love to play. It’s not really something I’d expect a whole lot of people to buy, though.

I think it’s a self-serving effort to put a political agenda above the safety of our law enforcement officers.

‘Powers of Persuasion: The Story of British Advertising’ by Winston Fletcher – the impression you get from reading this book, which covers post-war advertising until the present, is of a chaotic, self-serving, occasionally brilliant but ultimately shallow business.

Takers are self-serving in their interactions. It’s all about what can you do for me.

Public policy is designed by spin doctors who aim to keep our heads below the water. The public good is not a consideration, and their self-serving agendas prevail over common sense.

You can’t defend the indefensible – anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical.

It’s the human condition. We gravitate to what’s easy, things that are comfortable, convenient, pain-free, self-serving.

Every policy is shaped by two forces: background analysis and foreground politics. The political forces are loud, self-serving and, in the case of energy policy, well known.

The Alternative Vote is sectarian and self-serving and it will not improve people’s lives.

I am convinced that in order for you, as a patient, to be protected, it has to be transparent, evidence-based, objective information. Not self-serving information. Not pharma-driven information. Not ad-driven information. It is transparent, objective, evidence-based information.

When politics is no longer a mission but a profession, politicians become more self-serving than public servants.

We need to separate the process of evolution – which is, indeed, a self-serving process – and the actual motivations of animals.