Selfish Quotes
The intelligent altruists, though less altruistic than unintelligent altruists, will be fitter than both unintelligent altruists and selfish individuals.
In fact, the more each person can remove his or her ego from the discussion and focus on the subject matter, the more fruitful the conversation will be for all involved.
In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.
The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.
You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
Good mothers make all kinds of choices. Making a decision that might sound selfish does not make a woman a bad mother.
Because of my age and because there's more work on the small screen. What it's missing in quality it makes up for in quantity. From an actor's selfish point of view.
My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.
That's why charity work is very selfish at the same time, because it makes you feel good.
Pleasure for others is the only pleasure possible to me. I assure you I'm quite selfish! - I'm greedy for the happiness of those I love - and if they can't or won't be happy I'm perfectly miserable.
Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish.
Not everyone is selfish in fashion. There are people who go to bed feeling good about themselves and then spread the love.
Our thoughts are either focused on what's eternal, life-changing, and true, or lost in the details of our temporary, selfish, false beliefs.
The Bible says somewhere that we are desperately selfish. I think we would have discovered that fact without the Bible.
People who criticize The Selfish Gene like that often haven't read it. The selfish gene accounts for altruism toward kin and individuals who might be in a position to reciprocate your altruism.
Selfish men make the best lovers. They're prepared to invest in the women's pleasures so that they can collect an even bigger dividend for themselves.
The young are often accused of exaggerating their troubles; they do so, very often, in the hope of making some impression upon the inertia and the immovability of the selfish old.
Worship is at heart a person offered to God, claiming no rights, making no more selfish demands than a dead man does, but living fully, richly and wholly to God and by His power.
I've got to do something to make up for all those self-absorbed and selfish years when I just, you know, was taking drugs, sitting in my room, doing bad things, whatever.
Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality.
I've been selfish over the years, and other people who have made it have too, but I can only speak for myself.
Self-expression is a hard and selfish thing. It eats everything, even the self. At the end you find you haven't even got a self to express.
There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiful, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself.
People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience.
The craziest, most selfish act is to commit suicide. When you kill yourself, you kill others.
Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.
I suspect that much of our praying to be used is selfish, and underneath it is the sneaking desire to make our mark and be recognized.
It's enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back.
The endeavor to change universal power by selfish supplication I do not believe in.
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.
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.
Sociotropic voters with biased economic beliefs are more likely to produce severe political failures than are selfish voters with rational expectations.
Individuals motivated by self-interest, self-indulgence, and a false sense of self-sufficiency pursue selfish ambition for the purpose of self-glorification.
Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world.
Grief and disappointment are like hate: they make men ugly with self-pity and bitterness. And how selfish they make us too.
Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.
The Clinton paradox: How could a president so intelligent, so compassionate, so public-spirited and so conscious of his place in history act in such a stupid, selfish and self-destructive manner?
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.
To be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness.
Not by mere eloquence, nor by handsome appearance, does a man become good-natured, should he be jealous, selfish and deceitful.
Selfish hedonism is not a pejorative. It is a description - an exactly accurate description of what is involved in homosexual relations.
How I wish I could hug everyone and tell them that it's okay. It's okay to be scared and angry and hurt and selfish. It's part of being human.
