Sentence examples for selfish motivations from inspiring English sources

Perhaps I struggle to overcome my more selfish motivations.

Adams is a wise innocent, clever and learned but entirely unaware of the selfish motivations of others.

"If you want to be uncharitable, you can say that researchers use that concern about privacy as a shield by which they can actually hide their more selfish motivations".

It's about selfish motivations, too.

This also has the virtue of being a simpler explanation than the more complicated selfish motivations offered by Hobbes' theory.

But even that guilt has selfish motivations: if Renwick isn't properly rewarded for creating something that gives me so much pleasure, I'm worried that he might be discouraged from continuing.

Is it a selfish motivation or is it a real issue over security?

"There was some selfish motivation for me because they would be close for babysitting," Mr. Engquist said.

To suspect some kind of selfish motivation behind acts of generosity is a symptom of the profit-driven, wealth-obsessed world we live in.

While the DPP has made clear that his new guidelines do not alter the existing law, the six factors that could mitigate against a prosecution emphasise that the Crown Prosecution Service observes a clear distinction between an act of compassionate help towards someone who wants to die and those acts that have a malicious or selfish motivation.

But once a compassionate motivation is recast as a selfish motivation, for Hobbes as a type of fear, it conflicts with the sense of the term being explained to the point that it engenders contradiction.