Selfish Quotes

She didn't know there were things worse than selfish.

Unless you love yourself, you can't love anybody. Be selfish.

Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.

Reason tends to check selfish impulses and to grant the satisfaction of legitimate impulses in others.

Human beings are endowed by nature with both selfish and unselfish impulses.

We are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators. We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.

We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.

Gods tend to be selfish. Even when they're helpful, they always have their own motives. That's why you have to be careful about trusting them.

But the bottom line is that, as humans, we are by nature selfish creatures. The only way we care about anything, really, is by making it about us.

Love isn't one-sided and selfish.It is full and generous and life-altering in the best of ways.Love does not destroy, Gabriel.It creates.

People have become so selfish that they no longer care for others, or anything other than their own welfare.

Ideas that spread win. Ideas don't have to be selfish to win, in fact, it turns out that the more generous the interactions an idea produces, the more likely it is to spread.

You’re selfish and you’re cold, and I’m tired of getting frostbite when I touch you. (Acheron)

He is altogether selfish, she thought in some surprise, the only man I have ever sat and talked to alone, and I am impatient; he is simply not very interesting.

I feel so selfish, because I want the best of both worlds. I want to keep the image I've worked so hard to create.

I change my mind so much, I'm better going on my own. Shopping is a selfish activity anyway.

I don't want you to leave Which is exactly why I should. But don't worry. I'm essentially a selfish creature. I crave your company too much to do what I should.

Listen up, Wanda. I know exactly what you don't want to be. But we're human, and we're selfish, and we don't always do the right thing. We aren't going to let you go. Deal with it.

It is something of a miracle that individual selfish decisions (in a market economy) must lead to a collectively efficient outcome.

Can a selfish egocentric jealous and unimaginative female write a damn thing worthwhile?

I'm not a selfish actor. I believe that it's a team effort. You're not in a scene by yourself.

Myth: There's conflict between selfish free markets and a benevolent world of human sympathy.

We can't play stupid hockey, dumb hockey, greedy hockey, selfish hockey. We have to put the team ahead of our personal feelings.

I think there are different kinds of elites. I think there are venal elites, and self-interested elites, and selfish elites, and I think there are visionary elites.

There are elites that are real leaders and role models. There are elites that are really selfish and want to pull up the ladder once they've reached the roof.

My occupation has been a great deal with David Foster Wallace, and he didn't manage it, and he was very much looking for something that isn't totally selfish, and finding meaning. It's a struggle.

The selfish leader will attempt to lead others for their own gain and for the detriment of others.

Left to themselves people are noble, generous, uncorrupted, they'd create a completely new kind of society if only people weren't so blind, stupid and selfish.

Tragedies make you realize how selfish you are.

Anorexia is such a self-consuming, selfish disease. It's all about you. Becoming a mother, all of a sudden it wasn't about me anymore.

About when to let others sacrifice themselves for you, even if its selfish. They say that if the sacrifice is the ultimate way for that person to show you that they love you, let them do it.

And is it selfish of me to crave victory, or is it brave?

An artist must be ruthlessly selfish.

The really great man is often considered selfish by a large group of people who are connected with him and who feel that he might bestow upon them more benefits than he does.

Sure love is cruel and selfish and totally obtuse-- at least, blinded by the light, young love is.

What will a man not do when frantic with love? To what baseness will he not demean himself? What pangs will he not make others suffer, so that he may ease his selfish heart?

Of all influences that cause men to choose wrong, selfishness is undoubtedly the strongest. Where it is, the Spirit is not.

That's the point of music, to not be selfish and to help other people, I think.

Romantic love is the most selfish of all emotions.

The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we're so busy now.

Biology without selfishness, is nothing but fiction.

Teach the children compassion and empathy, for all creatures are born selfish.

The tide seldom shifts in favor of a selfish individual.

Selfish acts will only lead to your own destruction.

A PRIME TRUTH - MAN IS SELFISH(Name of chapter)

There is only one all pervading God. It has only one message - Love all, encompass all and transcend the limits of the selfish gene.

To some believers, being on the pill or using a condom is a nonverbal way of telling God to go to hell.

The subsistence mentality of a person is a prison in which his personal joy is detained. If you want to live in joy, you don't live for yourself alone. Live for others too!

Not a few millions of parents strongly hope that their own children will step in by instantly becoming their own parents’ foster parents, if and when the parents reach their second childhood.

Some of us were brought into this troubled world primarily or only to increase our fathers’ chances of not being left by our mothers, or vice versa.