Selfish Quotes

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

Sure, I have friends, plenty of friends, and they all come around wantin' to borrow money. I've always been generous with my friends and family, with money, but selfish with the important stuff like love.

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'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.

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.

Men tend to be selfish.

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.

The abortionist I worked for, he's a very greedy man, a selfish man.

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

When you go out there and do the things you're supposed to do, people view you as selfish.

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.

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

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 convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.

People are so docile right now. It is almost as if good government means when the politicians lie to us for our own good, for the public good, and bad government is when politicians lie for their own selfish interests.

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.

What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.

The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself.

In order to be able to give a girlfriend the amount of time she deserves, you would need time, and I just can't give her that. So, rather than being selfish or stupid enough to go into a relationship, it's just been easier to be single.

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!