Sentence examples for serving oneself from inspiring English sources

They had to make choices between serving the greater good – doing what's right for public welfare by increasing the team's payout – or serving oneself, thereby increasing the leader's payout but destroying public welfare.

Even people elected with the mandate of reducing this inequality, seem powerless, unwilling, possibly limited by the stubborn seduction of first serving oneself or an ideology.

Confusingly, the food was none the less canapes, which one served oneself with toothpicks on to tiny plates.

[War photography] is a powerful way of finding meaning in one's own life — to try to serve oneself by serving others.

Delbanco stresses that "one of the insights at the core of the college idea" is the notion that "to serve others is to serve oneself by providing a sense of purpose, thereby countering the loneliness and aimlessness by which all people, young and old, can be afflicted".

No doubt many who have given their life for country were also influenced by a faith that has such sacrifice at the core of its story, or by the many faiths, like mine, that instruct that there are sometimes greater purposes to serve than oneself.

9 To care for oneself is to help oneself to grow and to change.

It requires the intention and capacity to serve something beyond oneself.

The transferability or alienability of one's natural right to judge how to defend oneself serves as the foundation of Hobbes' political theory; it allows him to explain the formation of the commonwealth and the legitimacy of the sovereign.

In "Serving Nia," the theme is built around the communal good, serving a higher purpose than oneself.

I'm a little shocked at the responses to my recent post on serving swill to the masses while saving the good stuff for oneself.