Selfish Quotes

Human beings are selfish by nature. Everything that happens to a child, you immediately grab your own child and say, "I will never let that happen to you."

In matters editorial, I am a believer in totalitarian despotism. Most writers are lazy, difficult, selfish, thoughtless, and unreliable.

I have precious little sympathy for the selfish propriety of civilized man, and if aware of races should occur between the wild beasts and Lord Man, I would be tempted to sympathise with the bears.

But I would encourage anyone who has a crush on my character to watch it again and examine how selfish he is.

He was probably selfish in the sack. Probably selfish and greedy and...unsophisticated. And hung like a horse.

I like working with kids because I enjoy seeing the looks on their faces and, it's kind of selfish, I want a future audience.

The music as a whole is selfish, but the musicians aren't," "The song may go on forever but it's not about competition within the band; it's about playing as a band.

It is impossible to be both selfish and happy.

We don't have selfish guys here, which sometimes leads to problems.

You instantly become less selfish. You can't be the biggest person in the world anymore-they are. [Motherhood] really grounds you.

A story has to be a good date, because the reader can stop at any time. Remember, readers are selfish and have no compulsion to be decent about anything.

Alma: I rather suspect her of being in love with him. Martin: Her own husband? Monstrous! What a selfish woman!

Sometimes love makes you selfish. Sometimes it makes you stupid. Sometimes it reminds you why you love your gun.

You'll be a good parent when you're ready to no longer be selfish. Until I was about 35, it was all about me. I look back and I'm astonished at how I lived my life - it was totally self-involved.

Sometimes the coaches tell me to be selfish, but my game won't let me be selfish.

I get a lot of joy from playing instruments, and I have a different personality on each instrument. I like to let that come out. I get kind of selfish.

The love of money is the source of an enormous amount of good; the fact that the good is a by-product of the selfish pursuit of riches has nothing to do with its indisputable value.

I'm a selfish, little pig of a man.

If I had children, I would be very selfish. I wouldn't be out doing things. But by not having kids, it makes me freer to travel the world and talk about things I feel are important.

Drug addicts, when they are in their addiction, are selfish.

I do think that it is one of the eternal questions about art, though - is all art intrinsically selfish?

I wasn’t sure which of us was being more selfish—her, for wanting something that no one could promise, or me, for not promising her something that was too painfully impossible to want.

A selfish basis would not serve the purpose of taking a man higher and higher along the paths of evolution.

A personal selfish prayer is bad whether made before an image or an unseen God.

Love based upon indulgence of animal passion, is at best a selfish affair, and likely to snap under the slightest strain.

I do enjoy my own company. I cannot imagine anybody entertaining me more than I do. If it sounds selfish, I don't care. I made it a religion almost.

Remember,' she'd tell her staff, 'every customer wants to feel like a princess, and princesses are selfish and overbearing.

Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless.

Donald Trump is appealing to the basest, the most selfish and the most literally un-American of instincts.

All our acts, reasoned and unreasoned, are selfish

To have serpentlike qualities devoid of dovelike qualities is to be passionless, mean, and selfish.

I hate the standard of stupid and selfish driving we have in this country. We are the worst I've come across.

It isn't the sign of a good sport to go out among other people when one has a cold: it is the sign of a selfish and ill-advised person.

If your selfish goal will be useful to humanity, then let your selfish goal be triumphant!

I think I was a pretty selfish athlete.

When I do things with people it's not with the hopes of them coming back because that would be a selfish reason for me to do anything.

People do things with terrible motivations and those motivations are selfish and self-interested and financially driven.

Only a very small percentage can regard conditions from any but a selfish point of view or conceive of any but their own shoe-pinch.

I think it's selfish to go out partying all the time, especially if you have little ones in your family.

My line is all based on what I would wear, what I love to wear... It's very selfish! The first thing I ask myself is, "Is this something I would want for myself?" If so, I make it.

When I do have time to work on music, I'm kind of selfish, and would rather work on my own stuff than someone else's.

We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others.

Experience is an asset of which no worker can be cheated, no matter how selfish or greedy his immediate employer may be.

Normally I hate people who whine all the time, but in your case, it would be okay to complain. Be selfish, say what you want once in a while. It's okay to let yourself be sad." -Kyo talking to Tohru

And, selfish and scared, I wonder how much more he has to give.

Selfish-gene theory tells us nothing about the value of interacting through language.

I'm used to living alone, and I like it that way. You become so selfish living alone...I'd make a terrible husband anyway.

In proportion as a man is selfish, so far has he receded from the motive which constitutes virtue.

Immoderate grief is selfish, harmful, brings no advantage to either the mourner or the mourned, and dishonors the dead.

Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene is a classic example of science fiction.