Selfishness Quotes · Page 30

I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me.

— Alfred North Whitehead

The trouble with selfish motives is that they harden into principles, and you end up sending your kids to war for them.

— Robert Breault

stinginess seemed instinctive to him. Darwinian even. He hadn't gotten to his current size by sharing.

— Laura Lippman

Selfish men were...trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights

— Maria Weston Chapman

Before, I only wanted 5 minutes of his time. Now, I wanted every second, every minute, & every hour of his time

— Monalyn

When I'm upset, everyone knows about it, and it's a selfish trait because everyone suffers.

— Tamara Ecclestone

“Better not to plant seeds of selfishness than try to eradicate them once they have grown into giant weeds. (91)”

— Prem Prakash

An ideal is merely the projection, on an enormously enlarged scale, of some aspect of personality.

— Aldous Huxley

I think that there’s too much sugar in the world and not enough salt. Kids want to be challenged. Humans want to…

— Buzz Williams

Self-love is the love of a man's own self, and of everything else for his own sake. It makes people idolaters to…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Did you think a wishing well would be full of noble feelings? A wish is pure desire, Lizzy. You're old enough to…

— Jake Wyatt

We need leadership that can elevate religion and morality to their position of paramount importance and thus eliminate growing selfishness, immorality and…

— George W. Romney

“Nafasi yako peponi itapotea iwapo utamruhusu Pluto (kiongozi wa ahera) akukaribishe bazarai (makao makuu ya ahera) kwa kuchukua maisha yako mwenyewe. Kujiua…

— Enock Maregesi

“As for loneliness, it too has deep roots in selfishness, for its anguish stems less from having no one with whom to…

— William Sloane Coffin

Iam selfish,impatient & alittle bit insecure. I make mistakes, am out of control & at times had to handle. But if you…

— Monroe

There are so many ways a family can unravel. All it takes is a tiny slash of selfishness, a rip of greed,…

— Jodi Picoult

“Like most music that affects me deeply, I would never listen to it while others were around, just as I would not…

— Nicole Krauss

But thoughtless ingratitude is the armour of the young; without it, how would they ever get through life? The old wish the…

— Margaret Atwood

“You had once asked me if I was afraid of death. I said I was afraid of not living. I don’t want…

— Jeanette Winterson

What I learned was to live in my heart and to do what will make my happy, and that was not selfishness.…

— Bernie Siegel

Many seniors understand that Social Security is social insurance as opposed to a program where we put money aside for our own…

— Richard Lamm

How easy it is for generous sentiments, high courtesy, and chivalrous courage to lose their influence beneath the chilling blight of selfishness,…

— James F. Cooper

Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its…

— Jane Austen

We all have goals: We want to matter. We want to be important. We want to have freedom and power to pursue…

— Ryan Holiday

I'm just the mere shadow of my former selfishness. I crave the silhouette of your kiss.

— Elvis Costello

“I am selfish by habit, but sacrificial by nature. Therefore, I’d be wise to develop the habit of following my nature.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

For me, I wanted to create something that's much more driven by a type of selfishness, a type of decadence.

— Kehinde Wiley

Failing to hold someone accountable is ultimately an act of selfishness.

— Patrick Lencioni

We all are selfish, some of us just happen to render some selfless services in the process of our selfish acts.

— Emmanuel Rho

Learning to not be selfish is what has changed in me the most since being married.

— Blake Shelton

Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame.

— Jose Rizal

“It’s really good to love yourself, just don’t love yourself so much in a way that you will not be able to…

— Raouf Ayoub

“I'm not ready to put others life into jeopardy, just for my own selfishness!”

— Raajesh Pillai

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

— Napoleon Hill

What's wrong with selfishness and egotism? We live to die smiling, don't we?

— Kazuya Minekura

“I needed so much To have nothing to touch I've always been greedy that way”

— Leonard Cohen

“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live.”

— Oscar Wilde

“I understood that a race car driver must be selfish. Success at any endeavor on an elite level demands selfishness.”

— Garth Stein

“be greedy when others are fearful, and fearful when others are greedy.”

— Warren Buffet

I know its selfish but I wish I was the only one who gives smile on your face.

— Redeyeen