Quotes About Selfish Motives

#1. True repentance relinquishes self-centeredness and selfish motives. True repentance leads us to want to be Spirit-led and to live solely for the glory of God, no matter the consequences.

Susan Brackley

#2. Whatever I may do to serve you will be prompted solely from selfish motives, since it gives me more pleasure to serve you than not.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#3. As an artist, my talents are not mine alone to just keep. My creations have to touch lives, spread love and let my skills be used only in good things but should be selfless not through selfish motives. In this manner, I am giving the gift back to my Master Creator. - Elizabeth's Quotes

Elizabeth E. Castillo

#4. We are all very good at rationalizing our actions so that they are in line with our selfish motives.

Dan Ariely

#5. Be careful of selfish motives. You can mistake them for principles and end up dying for them.

Robert Breault

#6. War seems to be ingrained in human nature, and even to be regarded as something noble to which man is inspired by his love of honor, without selfish motives.

Immanuel Kant

#7. Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for selfish motives

George Bernard Shaw

#8. You need to put aside your own selfish motives and consider other people for a change.

Joe Schreiber

#9. We will be judged according to the secret motives and the character of our work. If we have done our work for selfish motives or personal gain, even if the results looked noble to our friends and family, God knows our hearts.

Billy Graham

#10. I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.

Charles Dudley Warner

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J.M. Darhower

#12. The trouble with selfish motives is that they harden into principles, and you end up sending your kids to war for them.

Robert Breault

#13. If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts get politicised? I have values I inherited from my father. He helped many. Anyone, even a postman knocking on our door would get a glass of water and some sweets.

Sachin Tendulkar

#14. Meditation without selfless giving is not enough. You may go into very high states of consciousness but the rough edges will still be there - there may be lots of selfish motives lurking within the self - that you don't see.

Frederick Lenz

#15. A wise Government seeks to provide the opportunity through which the best of individual achievement can be obtained, while at the same time it seeks to remove such obstruction, such unfairness as springs from selfish human motives.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#16. I always have this sense of food as triangular, in that one point is nourishment, one point is connection, and one point is pleasure, and I always come at it from the pleasure and connection points, and the nourishment follows.

Crescent Dragonwagon

#17. It's just money; it's made up. Pieces of paper with pictures on it so we don't have to kill each other just to get something to eat.

Jeremy Irons

#18. Gods tend to be selfish. Even when they're helpful, they always have their own motives. That's why you have to be careful about trusting them.

Rick Riordan

#19. Revolutions are the only political events which confront us directly and inevitably with the problem of beginning.

Hannah Arendt

#20. The first steps toward stewardship are awareness, appreciation, and the
selfish desire to have the things around for our kids to see. Presumably the
unselfish motives will follow as we wise up.

Barbara Kingsolver

#21. The greatest justice in life is to be who one is.

Vanna Bonta

#22. Single mothers have as much to teach their children as married mothers and as much love to share
maybe more. Yet their motives are often labeled selfish and single-minded
never mind all the babies brought into the world to snag husbands, "save" faltering marriages or produce heirs.

Anne Cassidy

#23. Tell him my future is in his hands and that, if the wedding bells ring out, he can rely on me, even unto half my kingdom. Well, call it ten quid. Jeeves would exert himself with ten quid on the horizon, what?

P.G. Wodehouse

#24. Those who joined us for selfish personal reasons, for a career or other motives will be the ones to leave.

Janos Kadar

#25. Since all motives at bottom are selfish and ignoble, we may judge acts and qualities only be their effects.

H.P. Lovecraft

#26. The crimes of violence committed for selfish, personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majorem gloriam Dei, out of a self-sacrificing devotion to the flag, a leader, a religeous faith or political conviction.

Arthur Koestler

#27. I shoot very little film. If you just do coverage you're shooting any number of potential films instead of just one, and I was shooting just one specific film. Film is cheap but time is expensive.

William Monahan

#28. You see, my dear, when people are angry with us, it is because they think we have done something to hurt them. Often, as it turns out, they have misjudged us or our motives. Thus, anger becomes a selfish emotion.

Carolynn Carey

#29. Let this be thy whole endeavor, this thy prayer, this thy desire,-that thou mayest be stripped of all selfishness, and with entire simplicity follow Jesus only.

Thomas A Kempis

#30. It is necessary for us to understand that the only Active Principle is Spirit.

Ernest Holmes

#31. It is unrealistic to assume that if all goes well in a child's life, he or she will be happy. Happiness is not something one can ask of a child. Children suffer in a way that adults don't always realize under the pressure their parents put on them to be happy.

Adam Phillips

#32. Motives for greed and selfishness are often attributed to toil and source of riches.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#33. But any man who walks in the way of power and property is bound to meet hate.

Zora Neale Hurston

#34. Men are beasts, selfish and brutal. However gentle the words, there are always darker motives underneath.

George R R Martin

#35. It is no less vain to wish death than it is cowardly to fear it.

Philip Sidney

#36. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway.

Mother Teresa

#37. The truth of the matter is, we all come to prayer with a tangled mass of motives - altruistic and selfish, merciful and hateful, loving and bitter.

Richard J. Foster

#38. UFO (Unidentified Flying Object)sightings are not higher among amateur astronomers than they are in the general public. In fact, they're lower. You say, why is that so? Well, because we know what the hell we're looking at!

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#39. You're never too old to grow up.

Shirley Conran

#40. She has been trying to pull her worth from him for so long. She has been trying to extract her beauty from his skin. She has been dying to be loved by him again ... but he will always leave her empty

Coco J. Ginger