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Competition is all about you. It's about feeding your selfish needs. It feeds the depravity of your heart.
— David Boudia
She has always seemed to me the epitome of womankind: coldly suspicious, politely ill-tempered, and narrowly selfish.
— John Edward Williams
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
Alas! the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects.
— George Eliot
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
M'ijita. That is not what it is for. And selfish reasons are almost always the wrong reasons.
— Juliet Blackwell
Not all the reasons not to have children are the same, either, though. Nor are all those reasons necessarily selfish. I
— Elizabeth Gilbert
I don't actually think 'The Selfish Gene' is a very good title. I think that's one of my worst titles.
— Richard Dawkins
...the human animal is a selfish beast...
— Tennessee Williams
Do something today that you think is too delicious, too selfish, too wacky to fit within the rules of your life. — Martha Beck
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
The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government.
— Henry Ward Beecher
If you're selfish enough to kill yourself write your suicide note on the back of your will
— Stanley Victor Paskavich
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.
— Little Richard
To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less ... selfish.
— Alan Bennett
Because reading is a selfish activity, writing must be unselfish, a gift to the reader.
— Oscar Patton
Business demands faith, compels earnestness, requires courage, is honestly selfish, is penalized for mistakes, and is the essence of life.
— William Feather
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
that is the thing about selfish people. they gamble entire beings. entire souls to please their own.
— Rupi Kaur
Through recognizing and realizing the empty essence, instead of being selfish and self-centered, one feels very open and free
— Tsoknyi Rinpoche
Advertising is the place where the selfish interests of the manufacturer coincide with the interests of society.
— David Ogilvy
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
The spiritual life is a call to action. But it is a call to ... action without any selfish attachment to the results.
— Eknath Easwaran
The midnight hours were her time to be selfish and vain
— Truman Capote
Man is essentially a selfish creature. The differences in the degree with which this developed are infinite.
— Samuel Freeman Miller
It was a kindness that was hard to understand ... and the most selfishness she's ever shown.
— Bisco Hatori
When you go out there and do the things you're supposed to do, people view you as selfish.
— Wilt Chamberlain
Betrayal is advancing myself at the expense of the one who I committed myself to advance.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
I think in the old music, everything was so competitive. It was all about - very selfish in a lot of ways.
— Adrian Grenier
A man, if he be active and energetic, can hardly fail also, be he never so selfish, of benefiting the general public interest.
— Benjamin Butler
Everyone has a natural slant towards seeking themselves. This gets in the way of seeking God unless God intervenes.
— Criss Jami
I cannot find the perfect person, but I refuse to live my life living a tragic love story based on just sex, and selfish act.
— Roxy Writer
You must think I'm an awful ruler. One of those spoiled, selfish queens who cares more for her own reputation than the welfare of her people.
— Marissa Meyer
If it's about me, I can be assured that there will be a bunch of empty chairs in the auditorium of my life; save the one I'm sitting in.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent.
— Berthold Auerbach
Children of the new morning, criminal minds. Selfish and greedy and loveless and blind.
— Tony Kushner
Love in the service of self is greed in disguise.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
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.
— Sarah MacLean
The secret is...good and evil are a myth. There is only the selfish, selfless, and those in between.
— Belart Wright
It would be a great misunderstanding of this doctrine to suppose that it is one of selfish indifference about the well-being of others'.
— John Stuart Mill
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— Tushar Upreti
Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands.
— Bram Stoker
Forgiveness, quite frankly, is the most selfish thing you can do. Because it is the greatest thing you can do for yourself.
— Caroline Myss
Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world.
— Lord Byron
At the end of the day we can't be that selfish to accept the love they think we deserve.
— Sarvesh Jain
It was selfish what I asked her to do, even if it wound up being the most unselfish thing I've ever done.
— Gayle Forman
What a selfish boy you are. You wished for the world but all you received were the skies.
— F.K. Preston
It is the liberal philosophy, not the conservative one, that views humans as selfish automatons.
— Allen West
Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
— Alexandre Dumas
the selfish gladly consoled themselves with the thought that though it was merciful at least it was not liberal;
— Karl Polanyi
Selfish is the name the jealous give to the free.
— Tiffany Reisz
Love wasn't a selfish thing. It was the kindest, most generous impulse a man could have.
— Susan Wiggs
In this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog.
— George Graham Vest
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
To exercise some sort of control over others is the secret motive of every selfish person.
— Wallace D. Wattles
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
Greed is the fast-track to poverty.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
The selfish leader will attempt to lead others for their own gain and for the detriment of others.
— Tom Peters
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
To act upon something so basic as love is not selfish. Everybody has the right to love whomever he happens to love.
— Scylar Tyberius
As you can see marriage is about putting away selfishness and taking on the concept of teamwork.
— Jim George
In contrast to the path of selfishness, there is no room for road rage on the straight and narrow way.
— Neal A. Maxwell
Kind people who put others before themselves would be the first to die. It was the ruthless and the selfish who would survive.
— Hyeonseo Lee
It astounds us to come upon other egoists, as though we alone had the right to be selfish, and to be filled with eagerness to live.
— Jules Renard
You want me to be unselfish? A vampire is selfish. We kill so that we can survive, that is the ultimate selfishness.
— Caroline Hanson
And this is my most selfish thought, that if I lose the people I love what is left of my own life will consist only of grief.
— Abigail Thomas
The small share of happiness attainable by man exists only insofar as he is able to cease to think of himself.
— Theodor Reik
The commonest weakness of our race is our ability to rationalize our most selfish purposes.
— Robert A. Heinlein
It needs some intelligence to be truly selfish. The unintelligent can only be self-righteous.
— Eric Hoffer
When you pray for your wife, it keeps the world at bay, it transforms selfish hearts, and it derails the devil's plans.
— Stormie O'martian
God protect me from the lazy, selfish and ungrateful.
— Habeeb Akande
An obese ego is just about the heaviest thing you'll ever carry. So maybe you should stop feeding it.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
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
