Quotes with self-serving

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  • David Lee Roth The problem with self-improvement is knowing when to quit.
    David Lee Roth
    American singer (1954 - )
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  • T. S. Eliot The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Michelangelo The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.
    Michelangelo
    Italian sculptor, painter and poet (1475 - 1564)
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  • Billy Corgan The Pumpkins love rock-and-roll, we absolutely love it, but we also think it's a flatulent, ego-serving kiddie playground. You can have your cake and eat it too.
    Out on a Limb. Details Magazine. October 1996
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Edward Dahlberg The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts - the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria - are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • John Dewey The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
    John Dewey
    American philosopher (1859 - 1952)
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  • Bre Pettis The self-driving car is coming. And right now, our best supply of organs come from car accidents... Once we have self-driving cars, we can actually reduce the number of accidents, but the next problem then would be organ replacement.
    Bre Pettis
    American entrepreneur and video blogger
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  • Eric Hoffer The self-styled intellectual who is impotent with pen and ink hungers to write history with sword and blood.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Milan Kundera The serial number of a human specimen is the face, that accidental and unrepeatable combination of features. It reflects neither character nor soul, nor what we call the self. The face is only the serial number of a specimen.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Iris Murdoch The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • William Hazlitt The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their cause, which is only the cause of humanity, to their own spleen, vanity, and self-opinion.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Albert Pike The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.
    Albert Pike
    American attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason (1809 - 1891)
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  • Abraham H. Maslow The study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy. The study of self-actualizing people must be the basis for a more universal science of psychology
    Motivation and Personality (1954) p. 234
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Anatole Broyard The tension between 'yes' and 'no,' between 'I can' and 'I cannot,' makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.
    Anatole Broyard
    American writer, literary critic, and editor (0 - 1990)
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  • Henry James The terrible fluidity of self-revelation.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Elizabeth Drew The torment of human frustration, whatever its immediate cause, is the knowledge that the self is in prison, its vital force and ''mangled mind'' leaking away in lonely, wasteful self-conflict.
    Elizabeth Drew
    American political journalist and author (1935 - )
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  • Napoleon The torment of precautions often exceeds often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Asa Hutchinson The true credit for our safety and security goes to our men and women who are serving in places like Iraq and Afghanistan in the global war on terrorism.
    Asa Hutchinson
    American businessman, attorney, and politician (1950 - )
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  • Amos Bronson Alcott The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.
    Amos Bronson Alcott
    American educator and social reformer (1799 - 1888)
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