Selfish Quotes · Page 24

Selfish people, with no heart to speak of, have the best time of it.

— Josh Billings

“When it comes to misfortune, we are all selfish at heart, offering up the same prayers: not me, not mine. Not yet.”

— Simon Beckett

Some say I'm selfish. My approach is the complete opposite of selfishness.

— Joey Votto

I don't want to sacrifice my life, as I feel that I'm still very selfish and still want to pursue my dreams.

— Joanna Krupa

“He didn't care if you were safe, he just cared if you were his.”

— Catherine Lacey

“Why would her mother need a break? And how selfish of her, to take off and not tell anyone,”

— Deanna Lynn Sletten

It doesn't bother me because I can tell everyone to kiss off.

— Jack Whittaker

We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.

— Lord Byron

It's not about the fish; it's not about the pollution; it's not about the climate change. It's about us and our greed…

— Jeremy Jackson

“It’s not such a wonderful thing, to be young,” I said. “It’s heartless, and selfish.” “But, oh, so free,” Nod said sadly.…

— Christina Henry

I think you're full of shit and a backstabber to your true friends, you're not innocent and you're selfish and look after…

— Anonymous

People do things with terrible motivations and those motivations are selfish and self-interested and financially driven.

— Michael Schur

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the…

— Pope John Paul II

You hate selfish people. Killing yourself = Selfish. You wanted to take away my pain. Killing yourself = pain for me. Causing…

— Azgraybebly Joslan

“I think of kids. It makes me feel selfish, to be so wary of having a family. Never mind do I have…

— Don DeLillo

You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She…

— Agatha Christie

There's a wonderful support network developing worldwide of people who understand what this big calling is, the calling of love. People often…

— Marci Shimoff

To one degree or another we all struggle with selfishness. Since it is so common, why worry about selfishness anyway? Because selfishness…

— Neal A. Maxwell

We receive mixed messages about taking good care of ourselves. Love thy neighbor as thyself means to love thyself and thy neighbor.…

— Jennifer James

Thinking it selfish to dwell on her own sufferings, when in the midst of wretches, who had not only lost all that…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

We are involved in an intense battle. It is a battle between right and wrong, between truth and error, between the design…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Inflammatory passion and selfish interest characterizes most men, whereas ambition characterizes men who pursue and hold national office. Such men rise from…

— Tom Cotton

It looks like a waste of life, that mowing down of our best years by a relentless passion which itself falls dead…

— Mary Cholmondeley

I used to love you I still do So Selfish I love the old you The you that didnt shoot drugs ...The…

— Henry Rollins

Personality-wise, I like to avoid putting my pride on parade.

— Hidetaka Miyazaki

The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we're so busy now.

— Phil McGraw

I enjoyed being single and selfish and only having myself to worry about.

— Montel Vontavious Porter

I will not judge someone based on the behavior of someone else

— Suman Rai

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

— Jose Mourinho

A self-centered life will have a tendency to confuse its selfish desire with Gods will.

— Santanu Mishra

“If your love for another person doesn’t include loving yourself then your love is incomplete.”

— Shannon L. Alder

I don't try to be nothing I'm not. I'm not flashy. I'm just me.

— DeMar DeRozan

Compassion brings fulfillment to the heart. Selfish desires simply agitate the heart.

— Radhanath Swami

I'm not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I…

— Anthony Bourdain

Selfishness beats altruism within groups. Altruistic groups beat selfish groups. Everything else is commentary.

— Anonymous

You do have to be fairly selfish when you have a gift. You cannot afford to let too many outside things get…

— Sarah Brightman

I am not a criminal, for I destroyed a bad man. I thought I was right.

— Gavrilo Princip

If you're trying to turn me into something else, it's easy to see I'm not down with that.

— Avril Lavigne

It's good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people.

— Hugh Hefner

Actually, I have my moments, but I don't consider myself a grumpy guy.

— Steve Miller