Selfish Quotes

A man who loves others based solely on how they make him feel, or what they do for him, is really not loving others at all - but loving only himself.

To believe in the truth of Christ is to be introduced to another form of hatred, and that is not sharing Him.

When you're appeasing too much, you might be egotistically over-estimating everyone's need for your approval.

As you can see marriage is about putting away selfishness and taking on the concept of teamwork.

Love does not dwell on how much one receives in return. If there is ever any balance in love, it is in a contest of who can love who more.

But grieving people are selfish. They won’t let you comfort them and they say you don’t understand and they make you feel useless when all your life you’ve been functional to them.

I don't think there's such a thing as a selfish prayer. Prayer puts you in communication so you can talk about whatever you want to talk about.

My work requires acting at its most committed - it demands actors of enormous resilience, but also intelligence and wit. It doesn't work for narcissistic or selfish actors.

I have a pet peeve about bands that don't play their hits. I think it's kind of selfish.

I've been a pretty selfish mom and a very unselfish athlete for about three years now and it's time to put my family first. It's probably time to move on.

We've been trained since kindergarten: Be nice, be kind, share, put on a smile. So we're conditioned to squash our natural selfish instincts, and that's the right thing for society.

That's okay. You an be selfish with me all you want. I'm yours.

Marriage is a mystery and part of it is just being kind to each other, not being selfish.

A selfish person says, hey, me and my four at home and no more and whatever happens to you is OK. But it can't be that way. It cannot be that way.

It is best to marry for purely selfish reasons.

A person can perhaps trust his eyes only to the amount of truth his heart does not mind to speak openly to the people to touch their souls in this selfish world full of lies.

I am selfish. I am cruel. My mate cannot be less than I.

You can't worry about what people say, but... People always harp on athletes being selfish individualists.

The reason I play music is to touch people - for selfish reasons, as well. It feels good to make someone else feel something, whether it's a kiss, a painting, good idea or it's a song.

Selfish people are in a way terribly capable of great loves.

If the church is going to make a difference, it will need to go through the "big give-up" stage. Churches will need to quit being selfish and become relevant.

Maybe I'm being selfish, but I choose you." He leaned over, lips brushing mine as he whispered, "I always choose you.

Everybody wants to talk about NBA players being selfish and arrogant and individuals. But what you saw today was a team bonding and facing adversity and coming out with a big win.

I am a very selfish person.

A lot of people were saying that I was a selfish person and a selfish player. You know, it got to me.

I was loosely aware that most of my characters were fundamentally selfish people, but I didn't intentionally make that a theme.

When your kid is being selfish or greedy and you want to help them not be that way, you have to find a way to articulate it and inspire them.

Wherever I live, if there isn't a restaurant I want to go to of a certain type, then I open it. That's all. For selfish reasons.

Politics these days is a disgusting game of mud-slinging, filled with selfish people with selfish aims. I'm very glad I've retired away from the hustle and bustle of Whitehall.

I think sometimes for me that sounds like almost being selfish. I am not about personal records.

The difficult part of love Is being selfish enough.

My son's the most precious thing to me: He's changed me from being selfish to selfless.

It's not selfish to give TO yourself as much as you give OF yourself

Even if I'm being selfish, but I want you to only look at me.

Is not sorrow, all sorrow, selfish?

I think in the old music, everything was so competitive. It was all about - very selfish in a lot of ways.

Artists are the worst [people]. They are selfish, self-centred; they don't care what happens.

Acting can be very selfish and all-consuming.

I'm very selfish! I'm only thinking about how I would look in clothes, and not how we as a society might appear in those clothes.

Most of the time, the things that really change the world exist for something fundamentally selfish and then the world-changing ends up being a side-effect of that.

I think I'm still figuring out how to be a little less selfish.

I've gotten very good at detaching whenever I have to go away for three months, which I realize is hard on friends and kind of selfish.

A selfless act out of even the purest desire to do for others, will be selfish in the satisfaction and happiness it brings to one doing it.

Creativity is very selfish. Scandalously so, in fact.

When fear sets in, you don't trust others and when you don't trust anyone then you become selfish.

It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

The first steps toward stewardship are awareness, appreciation, and the selfish desire to have the things around for our kids to see. Presumably the unselfish motives will follow as we wise up.

Doctor Strange is selfish but he's still saving lives.

It was humanly impossible for the disciples to free themselves from their selfish pursuit of self-exaltation, just as it's impossible for us to free ourselves from the very same sins.

I know I'm not a selfish player. People around me know I'm not a selfish player. I do everything I can to make people around me understand I'm not a selfish player.