Quotes with self-serving

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  • John F. Kennedy We prefer world law, in the age of self-determination, to world war in the age of mass extermination.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Charles J. Fillmore We shall serve for the joy of serving, prosperity shall flow to us and through us in unending streams of plenty.
    Charles J. Fillmore
    American linguist and Professor of Linguistics (1929 - 2014)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Walter Savage Landor We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
    Walter Savage Landor
    British poet (1775 - 1864)
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  • Baba Kalyani We've made two products; one is a 155 mm 52-calibre gun with self-propelling and towing capability. This is a field gun - the mainstay of the Indian army like the Bofors guns. Our gun is similar but of a longer range. That was 39 calibre; this is 52. The calibre denotes the length of the barrel and the range.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • Marilyn French Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight.
    Marilyn French
    American radical feminist author (1929 - 2009)
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  • St. Thomas Aquinas Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.
    St. Thomas Aquinas
    Italian philosopher and theologian (1225 - 1274)
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  • Abraham H. Maslow What a man can be, he must be. This need we may call self-actualization.
    Motivation and Personality (1954) p. 93.
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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  • Mark Twain What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Bruce Eric Kaplan What I like about graduation speeches is that they're an opportunity for someone to make sense of their life and to impart that wisdom to someone else. It's like a sanctioned self-help moment.
    Bruce Eric Kaplan
    American cartoonist
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  • Anita Brookner What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Epictetus What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Johann Gottfried Von Herder What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.
    Johann Gottfried Von Herder
    German poet and theologian (1744 - 1803)
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  • Brian Tracy Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.
    Brian Tracy
    Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development aut (1944 - )
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  • Andrew Cohen When a human being becomes so still that they begin to lose awareness of their gender, and they are simply looking into that abyss where there is no notion of self whatsoever, the world disappears. And that's really the only place to go. It's the only place to remain.
    Andrew Cohen
    American spiritual teacher (1955 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Carolyn Murphy When I had my daughter, my priorities shifted. Being in the world of fashion you have to be very self-absorbed and surrounded by people that are self-absorbed.
    Carolyn Murphy
    American model and actress (1974 - )
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  • Benigno Aquino III When I was a congressman, I had occasion to talk to this group of students who were taking their seat. There were about 80 of them and I asked them, 'How many of you will be serving in the country once you graduate?' And, out of the 80, there were two that raised their hands. The rest were thinking of leaving.
    Benigno Aquino III
    Filipino politician (1960 - )
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  • Anita Desai When I was very young, I used to share much of what I wrote with my family, but as I got older and more self-conscious, it became a much more private process.
    Anita Desai
    Indian novelist (1937 - )
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