Selfish Quotes
Selfish Quote of the day
We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests.
Millennials are often portrayed as apathetic, disinterested, tuned out and selfish. None of those adjectives describe the Millennials I've been privileged to meet and work with.
I'm going to be meeting with people today who talk too much - people who are selfish, egotistical, ungrateful. But I won't be surprised or disturbed, for I can't imagine a world without such people.
It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.
People are generally irrational, unreasonable and selfish. They deserve to be loved, anyway.
It's good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people.
We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.
It's very easy to become selfish and narrow-minded and see ballet as the only thing in life, but there's lots more.
Yet one more item is needed to complete success, and that is the rendering of service to others in the community. Without this the mere satisfaction of selfish desire does not reach the top notch.
Self-care is never a selfish act - it is only good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer others.
Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.
All suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction.
I don't see anything wrong with telling someone that you are selfish with their love and that you can't stand sharing them with anyone else.
Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.
Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.
No age is wanting in able men; it is the duty of wise masters to find them out, win them over, and get work done by means of them, without listening to the calumnies of selfish men against them.
Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.
I eat too much. I drink to much. A greedy selfish such-n-such. But when I wrap my turban on my mind is clear, I'm 'Baba Lon'.
To feel much for others and little for ourselves, that to restrain our selfish, and to indulge our benevolent affections, constitutes the perfection of human nature.
There are many selfish people who are extremely original, then they take those pure ideas and use them to raise themselves up, that is an insincere move.
A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.
I've never heard my dad say a bad word about anybody. He always keeps his emotions in check and is a true gentleman. I was taught that losing it was indulgent, a selfish act.
We're a part of nature. As we destroy nature, we destroy ourselves. It's a selfish thing to want to protect nature.
I am in love with girls that are bad and naughty and badass, and a little selfish, but I like to watch from a respectful distance!
An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness.
To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost.
National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice.
Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it's only when you have children that you realize you're not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.
Why should neurotic, selfish, immature people suddenly become angels when they fall in love ... ?
A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature and commerce are united, they make a respectable man.
I had to give him props, but how annoying of him to be a hero when I was trying so hard to dislike him. It was downright selfish.
Dear Scarlett! You aren't helpless. Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless. God help the Yankees if they should get you." -Rhett Butler
The number one thing on any team that will keep your players from being selfish is respect for the other players.
The man who is most aggressive in teaching tolerance is the most intolerant of all: he wants a world full of people too timid and ashamed to really disagree with anything.
In this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog.
I would have been a terrible mother because I'm basically a very selfish human being. Not that that has stopped most people going off and having children.
The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg; the saint in a selfish human being.
False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons.
