Selfish Quotes · Page 23

Once you conquer your selfish self, all your darkness will change to light.

— Rumi

I'm sorry for being selfish that I want to keep you for myself only..

— Anonymous

Give some space to people you love the most, you don't need to be selfish and own him/her.

— Syrill Yumang

I feel so selfish, because I want the best of both worlds. I want to keep the image I've worked so hard…

— Simone Elkeles

Some things you just have to do for yourself not being selfish just productive...

— Anonymous

Alas! the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects.

— George Eliot

Trying to get your sexual partner to make a monogamous commitment to you is not a loving thing to do; it's selfish.

— Chester Brown

I haven't let people take me down a negative path, because apart from dance I don't have an addictive personality.

— Arlene Phillips

I know it sounds selfish, wanting to do something no one else has done. But that's what you're out here for -…

— Jack Nicklaus

I don't want you to leave Which is exactly why I should. But don't worry. I'm essentially a selfish creature. I crave…

— Stephenie Meyer

The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To life a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You…

— Joel Osteen

I don't need to feel like I'm waiting to be noticed. I know who I am and I'll know what I want…

— Ramandeep Singh

Forgiveness, quite frankly, is the most selfish thing you can do. Because it is the greatest thing you can do for yourself.

— Caroline Myss

I want to be first. I know that’s selfish, and maybe unattainable, and maybe shallow. But I just want to come first…

— Charlaine Harris

It doesn't bother me to have people looking up to me, because I don't think I say anything too crazy or over…

— Aljamain Sterling

The young are often accused of exaggerating their troubles; they do so, very often, in the hope of making some impression upon…

— Robertson Davies

“O, that's what troubles me, papa. You want me to live so happy, and never to have any pain,—never suffer anything,—not even…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

A writer arrived at the monastery to write a book about the Master. "People say you are a genius . Are you?"…

— Anthony de Mello

“Punishment? You don‚Äôt have any right to punish me. And I can curse. I choose not to most of the time, but…

— Lexi Blake

A man's sentiments are generally just and right, while it is second selfish thought which makes him trim and adopt some other…

— Leland Stanford

We're a strange animal, so often destroying what we love for selfish ends, and yet tantalized by the sense that there are…

— Roland Joffe

I resolve to be more patient, less selfish, cherish my friends, and in my small way help whoever needs help. I cannot…

— Gladys Taber

“I remember Robyn saying once ‘Talking about yourself can be selfish or generous’. When I asked what she meant, she said: ‘If…

— John Marsden

We cannot forget that we live and have been living for many years in the midst of an empire. We cannot forget…

— Chittaranjan Das

“selfish and foolish, but she hugged it to her as she bundled”

— Nora Roberts

“It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes,”

— Andrew Jackson

I'm not everyone's cup of tea, but that's the great part: I don't have to be.

— Brandi Glanville

I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.

— Irvine Welsh

Of course we're all programmed genetically to some extent. But the "selfish gene" thesis doesn't explain everything.

— Jane Goodall

In proportion as a man is selfish, so far has he receded from the motive which constitutes virtue.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“even with selfish genes at the helm, nice guys can finish first.”

— Richard Dawkins

Selfish isn't a dirty word. It means we take care of ourselves and are able to give back.

— Jillian Michaels

That's why charity work is very selfish at the same time, because it makes you feel good.

— Maria Menounos

Parenthood helps you be less selfish, because you don't care about anything as much as you do them.

— Tom Fletcher

You should sub a player out when you see a player not going full-speed or playing selfish basketball.

— Dean Smith

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

— Herbert Spencer

It is easy to be proud & harsh & selfish - so easy. But we have been created for better things.

— Mother Teresa

“We must put our selfish ways to death and march to a different beat. Then the world will see Jesus.”

— DC Talk the Voice of the Martyrs

“the more successfully we forget our selfish motivations, the more successful we become.”

— August Turak

I hate selfish/self centered people. I hate stubborn people. And I hate how people can't be trusted.

— Anonymous