Selfish Quotes

I'm selfish.

Being selfish to me means that you have to look out for yourself and you don't have to sacrifice.

You'll be a good parent when you're ready to no longer be selfish. Until I was about 35, it was all about me. I look back and I'm astonished at how I lived my life - it was totally self-involved.

It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.

A man's sentiments are generally just and right, while it is second selfish thought which makes him trim and adopt some other view. The best reforms are worked out when sentiment operates, as it does in women, with the indignation of righteousness.

I am probably the most selfish man you will ever meet in your life. No one gets the satisfaction or the joy that I get out of seeing kids realize there is hope.

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.

I refuse to be crude and selfish in any way.

The world is so competitive, aggressive, consumive, selfish and during the time we spend here we must be all but that.

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

You have to be selfish to be an actor.

After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood.

I didn't do this for other people; I did this for me. I fought for this right for me - does that sound selfish?

From this it follows that con-sideration for other persons or for other living beings is very vital for goodness and want of consideration for other people makes human beings selfish, regardless for other people's good.

It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish.

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

I would not be a good mother. I mean, I love being an aunt to my niece and nephew. And I used to want to, like, adopt 10 kids - because I had friends who were adopted, and I thought that was the coolest thing, to be chosen. But again, my job is too selfish.

I considered becoming a priest very seriously. I wanted to travel the world. By the time I turned 16, I realized I was only in it for selfish reasons. And, more importantly, I didn't want to sacrifice the ladies!

We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others.

Our state is in crisis. Our people are hurting. Now is the time when we all must resist the traditional, selfish call to protect your own turf at the cost of our state. It is time to leave the corner, join the sacrifice, come to the center of the room and be part of the solution.

I am selfish, but that's an attribute that all artists possess.

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

Those who joined us for selfish personal reasons, for a career or other motives will be the ones to leave.

I believe in aliens. I think it would be way too selfish of us as mankind to believe we are the only lifeforms in the universe.

A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

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.

Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.

In the book, America had already been weakened by bio terror plagues before waves of selfish violence took down the rest. But the real enemy was the kind of male human being who nurses fantasies of violent glory at the expense of his fellow citizens.

On a selfish basis, I really enjoy sports and activity.

Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.