Selfish Quotes · Page 22

The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings.

— Honore de Balzac

It's just really frustrating how people are just so selfish in this industry. It makes me very angry.

— Indya Moore

I'm amazed, as quirky, individual and selfish as most of us are, that anyone stays married for long.

— Mark McKinnon

“To live a selfish life is the fastest track to catastrophe”

— Sunday Adelaja

If your actions are motivated by selfish interests rather than God, you are mortgaging tomorrow's joy.

— T. B. Joshua

Yes I'm selfish and care about myself,that's only because I've cared to much about others who never cared about me.

— Selena Moreno

I don't fear commitment and people in my world getting too close.

— Katherine Moennig

Banksy's a very selfish, driven, paranoid artist. For good reasons.

— Ben Eine

“Love will make you reckless. It can drag out parts of you that common sense and fear usually keep hidden away. Because…

— R.S. Grey

“I will protect him until I know he is safe and then I will have to leave him behind. I cannot be…

— Kia Carrington-Russell

Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good…

— Ouida

The idealism of the left is a very selfish idealism. In their war against 'the rich' and big business, they don't care…

— Thomas Sowell

I wasn’t sure which of us was being more selfish—her, for wanting something that no one could promise, or me, for not…

— Maggie Stiefvater

To think that the heritage of the West, including post-war liberalism, was a selfish, secular, practical arrangement of politics is a fiction.

— Ben Domenech

“Being pretty-minded is simply the natural state for most people. They want to be vapid and lazy and vain . . .…

— Scott Westerfeld

I Look At You And Smile... Hmmm Just Wondering Why? Why You Gotta Be So Selfish,&Worthless About Everything...Your In My Face Grinng…

— Niffi Smiles

“Every new encounter provides a new mirror for me to view my own experiences through, and there is a level of selfishness…

— Rachel Lloyd

If the various groups in America had been less selfish and had permitted different representatives from the groups to travel into foreign…

— Malcolm X

My mum was critical in getting me to recognise very early on that although what I was doing was pretty serious, quite…

— Sebastian Coe

Living a happy life is my main priority. You guys may think I am selfish for "wasting my talent" by staying away…

— Andy Irons

...this bill will require the creation of a Federal police force of mammoth proportions. It also bids fair to result in the…

— Barry Goldwater

“The sight of other people's prosperity seems to kill their appreciation and the enjoyment of their possessions. To be happy, we must…

— Orison Swett Marden

Christianity is a lifestyle - a way of being in the world that is simple, non-violent, shared, and loving. However, we made…

— Richard Rohr

If we see the body we live in as a temple used to engage in beautiful activities in the service of God's…

— Radhanath Swami

I hope I don't have a big ego. I try to keep that in check. But I am a prideful person, I…

— Natalie Maines

Self-care isn't selfish (it is a gift to all concerned). You can't serve from an empty vessel.

— Eleanor Brown

I said with perfect honest, "I have no intention of trying to take these suckers out by myself, no.

— Robin McKinley

The better I am, the better the team is, so you should want me to be selfish about how good I am.

— Trevor Bauer

A dictator keeps control and leads. A tyrant is someone selfish who destroys.

— Alessandra Mussolini

I think in the old music, everything was so competitive. It was all about - very selfish in a lot of ways.

— Adrian Grenier

“Nobody prays for the heartless, nobody gives another penny for the selfish”

— Pierce The Veil

I look back on my life and have to face the fact that I have been narcissistic and selfish.

— James Woods

“Burn that one to the ground, Violet, and dance on the ashes. And damn anyone who tells you it’s selfish to do…

— Courtney Milan

All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery.

— George Orwell

I'm not afraid to look stupid and I'm not afraid to look like I'm trying too hard.

— Aldous Harding

As long as everything is happy at home, I can be totally selfish at work.

— Darcey Bussell

“If we don’t give back to the society, we'll die of obesity.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Love – whether romantic, Or filial, Is as selfish as those mountains.”

— Neelam Saxena Chandra

It's enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back.

— Adrian Grenier

“Because reading is a selfish activity, writing must be unselfish, a gift to the reader.”

— Oscar Patton