Quotes About Self Serving People

#1. When you meet silent and inscrutable people, don't tell them what you are thinking. When you meet irritable and self-serving people, be careful what you say.

Zicheng Hong

#2. As coercive monopolies that spend other people's money taken by force, governments are uniquely unqualified to solve problems. They are riddled by ignorance, perverse incentives, incompetence and self-serving.

John Stossel

#3. Kindness is weak when you use it in a self-serving manner. Self-serving kindness is thin - people can see right through it when a kind leader has an agenda.

Travis Bradberry

#4. You cannot fulfill your mandate without fulfilling your purpose and calling in life

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#5. Never abandon your calling or go outside your purpose

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#6. So, when it comes to effective leadership, it's not about you and what makes you comfortable or helps you get ahead. It's about other people. It's about serving God by serving others. That's the mind-set of the mentor leader.

Tony Dungy

#7. Contemplate to see that awakened people, while not being enslaved by the work of serving living beings, never abandon their work of serving living beings.

Nhat Hanh

#8. There is no love for God without love for man

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#9. There is a sense of call to take leadership roles. You're serving people and submitting to God as best you can.

Richard Foster

#10. Being on a mission-not thinking about myself and focusing on serving other people-is what brought me closer to God than anything else.

David Archuleta

#11. You cannot reach God until you begin to pay attention to humans

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#12. Living for your purpose is equivalent to living for the Kingdom of God

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#13. Break free from the contract of employment

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#14. You need to combine your calling with your passion

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#15. When you're under employment, you are not working in the area of your calling but rather helping to fulfill your employer's

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#16. People have needs and wants. We call that DEMAND. There are also people who service these needs and wants. That is called SUPPLY. If there were no people to serve, there would be no business. So the true definition of business is nothing more than: PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE.

Ian Fuhr

#17. The assertion that Americans love violence and bathe in it daily is a self-serving lie promulgated by fundamentalist religious types and America's propaganda-savvy gun-pimps. It's believed by people who don't read novels, play video games, or go to many movies

Stephen King

#18. You can only be fulfilled in life when you achieve your purpose

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#19. Prior to capitalism, the way people amassed great wealth was by looting, plundering and enslaving their fellow man. Capitalism made it possible to become wealthy by serving your fellow man.

Walter E. Williams

#20. I learned that to find meaning in life, you can't separate yourself from serving people and giving your life to them.

Felix Muruchi

#21. The inside operation of Congress - the deals, the compromises, the selling out, the co-opting, the unprincipled manipulating, the self-serving career-building - is a story of such monumental decadence that I believe if people find out about it they will demand an end to it.

Bella Abzug

#22. David Halberstam often wrote about the powerful, but his real sympathies lay with ordinary people. He was very uncomfortable with bigfoot Washington journalism - he thought it was lazy and self-serving.

Jonathan Yardley

#23. We may call it "people pleasing," but it is entirely self-serving because it is really all about keeping myself comfortable. Boiled down, it could be more accurately called "me pleasing.

Emily P. Freeman

#24. I had begun to write novels because of a fierce, self-serving impulse in my own heart. I had not considered the potential in a book for felt communion, the bright largesse of intimately participating in the lives of other people.

Sue Monk Kidd

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

Aldrich Ames

#26. 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.

Sally Mann

#27. You are at liberty to develop yourself when you are self employed

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#28. The Moralization Gap is part of a larger phenomenon called self-serving biases. People try to look good. "Good" can mean effective, potent, desirable, and competent, or it can mean virtuous, honest, generous, and altruistic.

Steven Pinker

#29. Change comes from dedicated, ordinary people, in the trenches, serving a cause greater than self.

Linda Bender

#30. Misogyny is simply a symptom of how stupid and self-serving we all are. As is racism. As is any outlook that lumps people into pejorative categories (like 'neckbeards'), that urges or insinuates hatred of people based on simplistic identifications.

R. Scott Bakker

#31. Leadership is never an avenue to be self-serving but,a platform to render great service to people.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#32. But there's no way round it-commercial success is a mark of failure for a graffiti artist. We're not supposed to be embraced in that way. When you look at how society rewards so many of the wrong people, it's hard not to view financial reimbursement as a badge of self-serving mediocrity.

Banksy

#33. It is only when you pay attention to ordinary people that you convince God that you are really serving Him

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#34. I do not trust self-serving misinformation coming from corporations and their media trolls. I do not trust politicians who are taking millions from those corporations, either. I trust people. So I make my music for people, not for candidates.

Neil Young

#35. I think people are inherently self-aggrandizing, pleasureseeking, unempathetic, self-serving, greedy and lustful.

Park Dietz

#36. If people are to develop any deep spirituality today, and especially if men are to develop spiritually, they need to be liberated from self-serving worldviews.

Richard Rohr

#37. Smart people instinctively understand the dangers of entrusting our future to self-serving leaders who use our institutions, whether in the corporate or social sectors, to advance their own interests.

James C. Collins

#38. Pretty is a self-serving situation in which it's all about you. People who are pretty are superficial, but they are not beautiful. Beauty requires more depth.

Diane Keaton

#39. People had an illogical, self-serving rationale when it came to interpreting the behavior of others.

Marisha Pessl

#40. Once you start rummaging around in the realm of the unverifiable there is considerable room for creativity, and accusations of sorcery are often blended with self-serving motives. Tribal people, anthropologists have shown, often single out despised in-laws for allegations of witchcraft, a convenient

Steven Pinker

#41. Increasingly, people perceive no difference between the narcissistic self-serving reporters asking questions, and the narcissistic self-serving politicians who evade them.

Michael Crichton

#42. Read at least one book a month. This is self-serving, obviously. It's a proven fact that people who read buy more books than people who don't read. In truth, I wish you'd read ten books a month, or at least buy that many.

Randy Pausch

#43. Employment leaves you distracted

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#44. Direct your attention to men and find ways to put smiles on their faces

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#45. The people around you are the instruments that God will use to help you

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#46. To celebrate man is to celebrate God

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#47. Almost everyone nowadays is on the wrong track in their pursuit of
happiness. They think a great deal about having and receiving, about
outward show and success and being served by others. That is what most
people call fulfillment.
True fulfillment, though, lies in giving and serving.

Paulo Coelho

#48. The happiest people I know live lives that revolve around serving others, not themselves.

Tim Elmore

#49. There are people who were gay and lived the gay lifestyle and aren't anymore. I don't know if that's the similar situation or that's the case for anyone that's black. It's a behavioral issue as opposed to a color of the skin issue, and that's the diff for serving in the military.

Rick Santorum

#50. You are dealing with people who have taken the responsibility of killing their own because they think that they are right, they think that they are serving the interests of their people. They not going to give that up easily, just because you've shown up.

Lakhdar Brahimi

#51. I repeat that the poor, the sufferers from leprosy, the rejected, the alcoholics, whom we serve, are beautiful people. Many of them have wonderful personalities. The experience which we have by serving them, we must pass on to people who have not had that wonderful experience.

Mother Teresa

#52. Don't invest everything in another man's calling

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#53. We learn to love imperfect people by serving them out of reverence for a perfect God...

Gary Thomas

#54. You values are your life's worth

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#55. When leading people and serving Heaven, nothing exceeds moderation.

Laozi

#56. I learned that leadership is about falling in love with the people and the people falling in love with you. It is about serving the people with selflessness, with sacrifice, and with the need to put the common good ahead of personal interests.

Joyce Banda

#57. Miracles await you when you begin to serve people

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#58. Reflect and meditate on yourself and discover ways to multiply yourself

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#59. You become a candidate for God's love when you are rejected by people

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#60. What is done unto people is also being done unto God

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#61. By serving humanity, I automatically serve myself.

Vironika Tugaleva

#62. I tell people all the time, you have to be in love with that pot. You have to put all your love in that pot. If you're in a hurry,just eat your sandwich and go. Don't even start cooking, because you can't do anything well in a hurry. I love food. I love serving people. I love satisfying people.

Leah Chase

#63. The purpose of life has eternal consequences

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#64. When people start serving together, they forgot about all their stress, [ ... ] all their own problems. They start focusing on someone else's.

Blake Mycoskie

#65. Providing for the common good, making people feel secure in their communities and homes - this is the central job of government. it's why all of us are here serving our state and our people.

John Baldacci

#66. People have forgotten what the human touch is, what it is to smile, for somebody to smile at them, somebody to recognize them, somebody to wish them well. The terrible thing is to be unwanted.

Mother Teresa

#67. Man's inner content is the worth of his life

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#68. The value of the television network is partly tradition, serving as a navigation device and as a brand. Research shows that people do know and understand ABC as a brand, like Disney.

Anne Sweeney

#69. Beauty, Olympia has come to understand, has incapacitated her mother and ruined her life, for it has made her dependent upon people who are desirous of seeing her and of serving her.

Anita Shreve

#70. The proof of your love for God is seen in your service to men

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#71. If we can fall in love with serving people, creating value, solving problems, building valuable connections and doing work that matters, it makes it far more likely we're going to do important work

Seth Godin

#72. When you discover your gift and authority, that gift attracts people. When people come to you, they are not really coming to you for you but for the gift and the vision that you are serving the humanity of your generation with.

Myles Munroe

#73. No amount of money can recover lost time

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#74. At a certain point, particularly in his third term, Mayor Bloomberg lost touch with the people he was serving.

Bill De Blasio

#75. Don't let the tide of life shift you away, move intentionally in the right direction

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#76. Waiting around to be perfect never amounts to anything. Don't be a waiter or you'll be serving other people.

Ian Desabrais

#77. The first thing to do after you get fired is to discover God

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#78. Time is the content of life

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#79. It's not in the interests of the self-serving government to educate the masses to the point where they are smart enough to see through the bullshit - because then people will be too smart to vote for them again.

Christina Engela

#80. I am the longest- serving independent in the history of the United States Congress. People of Vermont sent me to Washington as an independent. That is true.

Bernie Sanders

#81. Retailers should not be filling their minds with all the things that are wrong, with how the economy is going, or with trying to get someplace in the business world. They should enjoy being in this moment and in this day and serving the people who come in.

Wayne Dyer

#82. There is no serving God without serving man

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