Selfish Quotes
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To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
— Gustave Flaubert
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.
— Ashly Lorenzana
You need to put aside your own selfish motives and consider other people for a change.
— Joe Schreiber
No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
— Henry Ward Beecher
If you look at the people in Hollywood who are heavy partiers, they're selfish, self-centered and egotistical.
— Danny Trejo
A poem isn't selfish. It speaks to people.
— Wallace Stegner
Not all the reasons not to have children are the same, either, though. Nor are all those reasons necessarily selfish. I
— Elizabeth Gilbert
I always felt too young and selfish to have children of my own.
— Natasha Richardson
YOU'RE TOO DAMN SELFISH!!!
— Owen Hart
I don't actually think 'The Selfish Gene' is a very good title. I think that's one of my worst titles.
— Richard Dawkins
You're right Acheron. I am a selfish bastard. I had to be, because no one else gave a single shit about me except me
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
I am selfish, but that's an attribute that all artists possess.
— Robert Mapplethorpe
...the human animal is a selfish beast...
— Tennessee Williams
To be selfish is to sacrifice the nobler for the meaner ends, and to be sordidly content.
— Hugh Reginald Haweis
All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Business demands faith, compels earnestness, requires courage, is honestly selfish, is penalized for mistakes, and is the essence of life.
— William Feather
It's enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back.
— Adrian Grenier
On a selfish basis, I really enjoy sports and activity.
— Alan Thicke
More or less we are all Selfish. When it's come to Friendship, I do think that fish cant jump onto the ship!
— Shah Moazzem
Through recognizing and realizing the empty essence, instead of being selfish and self-centered, one feels very open and free
— Tsoknyi Rinpoche
another day. I have purely selfish motives. I'm a
— J.M. Darhower
All of the things that the bible warns you of being: jealous, covetous, murderous, selfish, etc., that's kind of how humans are.
— Henry Rollins
Nothing may be more selfish than remorse ...
— Margaret Deland
The midnight hours were her time to be selfish and vain
— Truman Capote
It is not selfish or narcissistic to love yourself. It is your first and foremost responsibility.
— Alan Cohen
As you can see marriage is about putting away selfishness and taking on the concept of teamwork.
— Jim George
Love is just a word we use to describe what boils down to a selfish and temporary state of happiness.
— Sara Zarr
In this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog.
— George Graham Vest
Saying" I Love You" and acting "selfish
— M.F. Moonzajer
The abortionist I worked for, he's a very greedy man, a selfish man.
— Norma McCorvey
The only selfish life is a timid one.
— Jeanette Winterson
Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
— Khalil Gibran
Love wasn't a selfish thing. It was the kindest, most generous impulse a man could have.
— Susan Wiggs
A selfish man is a thief.
— Jose Marti
I'm not selfish at all.
— Judy Gold
Everyone might think Lizzie's an angel, but I knew better. She was selfish, and she was going to pay.
— Michelle Madow
And I'll do everything I can, if you do it again, not to give up on you and be a mean, bitchy, thoughtless, selfish cow." His
— Kristen Ashley
Everyone is good at heart. We all do things with the greatest of intentions and most of the time we do it for selfish reasons. Myself included.
— Celia Mcmahon
The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Boredom is for the selfish.
— Patti Digh
People have become so selfish that they no longer care for others, or anything other than their own welfare.
— Sathya Sai Baba
I've come to the point in my life where I encourage young Native Americans to become much more selfish about their personal needs and wants.
— Sherman Alexie
I think I was a pretty selfish athlete.
— Melanie Roach
I am guilty of a dreadful selfish crime. I have robbed myself of all my precious time
— Robert Earl Keen
The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg; the saint in a selfish human being.
— Anthony De Mello
I'm amazed, as quirky, individual and selfish as most of us are, that anyone stays married for long.
— Mark McKinnon
In contrast to the path of selfishness, there is no room for road rage on the straight and narrow way.
— Neal A. Maxwell
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.
— Joshua Bell
Selfish is the name the jealous give to the free.
— Tiffany Reisz
I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.
— Barbra Streisand
Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless.
— Edward Albert
The selfish leader will attempt to lead others for their own gain and for the detriment of others.
— Tom Peters
It's so easy to be selfish in your 20s and not want to sacrifice.
— Freddie Prinze Jr.
Love Yourself!Love everyone & everything.
Then be a little selfish and LOVE YOURSELF a little MORE!! — Abhishek Kumar
When I am generous, I enjoy blessings that far exceed whatever selfish pleasure I can grab for myself.
— Lori Hatcher
A person who is humble would never be abusive or selfish; so don't abuse yourself or withhold self-love or self-care.
— Bryant McGill
One should be selfish bt only getting things which he deserves not what he likes or suits him,,,
— Kish
Each one of us is selfish, including me.
— Santosh Kalwar
There is no man at once so unselfish and selfish as a man in love.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
At times we just want to become selfish.
— Avijeet Das
How soon the labor of men would make a paradise of the earth were it not for misgovernment and a diversion of his energies to selfish interests.
— Thomas Jefferson
For myself, suffering doesnt make me a good person; it makes me selfish. Why do we think that people who have less should find it edifying?
— Katherine Boo
Sacrifice is a noun in my vocabulary that should be a verb in my life.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
An artist must be ruthlessly selfish.
— W. Eugene Smith
I don't believe I'm selfish in any way.
— Nadya Suleman
Anyone could father a child. But a good parent puts his child's needs before his own. A parent should be selfless not selfish.
— Penelope Ward
I've decided to be selfish and keep you all to myself for a while.
— Dorothy Garlock
To exercise some sort of control over others is the secret motive of every selfish person.
— Wallace D. Wattles
There is something inside me, some selfish beast of a subtle thing that doesn't like truth at all because it carries responsibility.
— Donald Miller
Customs are generally unselfish. Habits are nearly always selfish. — G.K. Chesterton
She also understood there was a hole in her heart where her son should be, that she was a wicked, selfish woman for wishing him back.
— Shannon Celebi
Auburn-Stache. Am I selfish?""I've never met a soul that wasn't. I've met a lot of people who don't bother wondering. — Leah Thomas
If I am indeed my own god, I'd better start praying to myself to get myself out of myself.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
I'm sorry I kissed you- it was selfish and it upset you- but you can't ask me to pretend I didnt want to.
— Holly Black
Greed is the fast-track to poverty.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Forget public service. We all come here with good intentions, but as time passes, it becomes all about self-service and selfish survival.
— Congressman X
To act upon something so basic as love is not selfish. Everybody has the right to love whomever he happens to love.
— Scylar Tyberius
Evil isn't a cosmological riddle, only just selfish human behavior.
— Joyce Carol Oates