Selfish Quotes
The most DIFFICULT thing for individuals to do when they become part of a team is to sacrifice, it is much EASIER to be selfish.
Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish man. The devoted fail.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!
I'd be a conservative if I'd never met any. They're selfish, mean-spirited, egocentric, reactionary, and boring.
A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction.
You should sub a player out when you see a player not going full-speed or playing selfish basketball.
Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: for it is perhaps your own coldness and avarice and mediocrity and materialism and selfishness that have chilled his faith.
Remember that no matter how selfish, how cruel, how unfeeling you have been today, every time you take a breath, you make a flower happy.
One player's selfish attitude can poison a locker room and make it hard, if not impossible, to establish team work
People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. It's very selfish, but it's understandable.
A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.
Remember the people you address are selfish, as we all are. They care nothing about your interests or profit. They seek service for themselves
Self-deprecating or arrogant, it's all selfish. Hard as it is, life's better when you spend more time on the rest of the world
Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.
Self-care isn't selfish (it is a gift to all concerned). You can't serve from an empty vessel.
Being selfish to me means that you have to look out for yourself and you don't have to sacrifice.
God would be a very selfish god if he gave all the soul to one race. ... When one sings from the heart and it reaches another heart, that's soul.
The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.
Issue a blanket pardon. Forgive everyone who has ever hurt you in any way. Forgiveness is a perfectly selfish act. It sets you free from the past.
Be not unwilling in what thou doest, neither selfish nor unadvised nor obstinate; let not over-refinement deck out thy thought; be not wordy nor a busybody.
The challenge and the energy running requires may be a selfish one, but it actually motivates me to be stronger in my relationships.
Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.
If your actions are motivated by selfish interests rather than God, you are mortgaging tomorrow's joy.
If believing in yourself and going after what you want in life and realising your worth is ruthless and selfish, then I'm definitely ruthless and selfish.
She just happened to feel like it. Wasn’t that after all, the only reason there was? Had she ever had a less selfish, more complicated reason for doing anything in her life?
In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.
Selfish is caring for ourselves at others' expense ... Self-care is taking care of ourselves so that we can be there for others.
In contrast to the path of selfishness, there is no room for road rage on the straight and narrow way.
Moral evil is the immorality and pain and suffering and tragedy that come because we choose to be selfish, arrogant, uncaring, hateful and abusive.
To exercise some sort of control over others is the secret motive of every selfish person.
Some critics accuse capitalism of being a selfish system, but the selfishness is not in capitalism - it is in human nature.
I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.
Compassion brings fulfillment to the heart. Selfish desires simply agitate the heart.
It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.
Selflessness. Humility. Truthfulness. These are the three marks of an honorable man.
