I Am Selfish Quotes

Great leaders have to know when to divide that line from being selfless to being selfish, and he perfectly chose the time to be selfish and made plays.

You shouldn't punish others for your own choices.

All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair.

You're real selfish and everything is focused on you and how you feel until you realize there is something missing and that's your relationship with Jesus Christ.

Selfish hedonism is not a pejorative. It is a description - an exactly accurate description of what is involved in homosexual relations.

The end of knowledge is wisdom The end of culture is perfection The end of wisdom is freedom The end of education is character. And character consists of eagerness to renounce one's selfish greed.

Marriage is no way of life for the weak, the selfish, or the insecure.

Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.

Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world.

Individuals motivated by self-interest, self-indulgence, and a false sense of self-sufficiency pursue selfish ambition for the purpose of self-glorification.

Sociotropic voters with biased economic beliefs are more likely to produce severe political failures than are selfish voters with rational expectations.

Selfishness is the key quality that all successful people share. To be the best at what you do in any field, and to accomplish the goals you set for yourself, you have to be somewhat selfish.

The world is a king, and like a king, desires flattery in return for favor; but true art is selfish and perverse — it will not submit to the mold of flattery.

I love you so much that nothing can matter to me - not even you...Only my love- not your answer. Not even your indifference

It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies.

You can be yourself without pursuing yourself. Have you ever seen a dog chase his own tail? He just runs in circles.

Ridicule, which chiefly arises from pride, a selfish passion, is but at best a gross pleasure, too rough an entertainment for those who are highly polished and refined.

Sin always finds it's root in our own selfish desires and self-gratification.

Racing is a very selfish, self-centred, self-glorifying thing. My wife's life for 14 years was centered around me. It was all about me. It was all for my ego.

It is selfishness which is the cause of most of our misery.

Thorough selfishness destroys or paralyzes enjoyment. A heart made selfish by the contest for wealth is like a citadel stormed in war, utterly shattered.

I've always been antagonistic to any naïve application of the selfish gene theory to politics. Some people have attempted to suggest that it means we are selfish or we should be selfish.

We know that there are chiselers. At the bottom of every case of criticism and obstruction we have found some selfish interest, some private axe to grind.

The world is so competitive, aggressive, consumive, selfish and during the time we spend here we must be all but that.

Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.

I am selfish, private and easily bored. Will this be a problem?

My objection to Christianity is that it is infinitely cruel, infinitely selfish, and, I might add, infinitely absurd.

As an athlete you're taught to be selfish. When I'm training, it's usually all about me.

I think it all comes back to being very selfish as an artist. I mean, I really do just write and record what interests me and I do approach the stage shows in much the same way.

My feelings about my mortality are less selfish than they used to be. I used to affect a cavalier attitude to death; now I see it from my son's perspective.

As it's your 50th birthday The very best of cheers to you Truthfully, I'm just being selfish Coz now I am so cheerful, too Happy, Cheerful Birthday

To be selfish is to sacrifice the nobler for the meaner ends, and to be sordidly content.

My wit is like your legs," said Xochi. " It would be selfish of me to keep it hidden.

Rather than assume that the wealthy are a monolithic, selfish and unfeeling lot who must be subjugated by the force of the state, set a tone that encourages people of good will to meet in the middle.

When I was young, I was very selfish, now not any more.

As you get older you try to do things that please you more. You get a little more selfish. You start thinking I want to do things where I enjoy myself.

I have another question: Hillary Clinton, lying to the American people about her selfish, awful judgment in making our secrets vulnerable.Guilty or not guilty?

Only you could love such a vile, selfish peacock, Evie.

People always tend to chose what is best for them. They pretend to be unselfish, all so that they can feel good about themselves. Even that really is a selfish decision.

I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.

The selfish man cuts away the sand from under his own feet, he digs his own grave; and every time, from the beginning of the world until now, God Almighty pushes him into the grave and covers him up.

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

The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.

Anorexia taught me to love life and to realise that starving yourself to death is a bloody waste of time. It's awful and it hurts so many people around you. It's a terribly selfish thing to do.

Forgiveness, quite frankly, is the most selfish thing you can do. Because it is the greatest thing you can do for yourself.

This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication.

It can be rebuilt if other countries with selfish interests will not meddle, as has been done in the past.

The act of love . . . is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself.

A liking for truth at any cost is a passion that spares nothing and that nothing resists. It's a vice, at times a comfort, or a selfishness.

The abortionist I worked for, he's a very greedy man, a selfish man.