Selfish Quotes · Page 29

A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.

— Albert Einstein

For me, to say I want to go to sleep and retire and prepare for my afterlife, I think that is very…

— Mahathir Mohamad

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

— Blake Shelton

I do this for the sake of myself. It's a selfish process. I don't really have any expectations from anyone for your…

— Lupe Fiasco

Ultimately there can be no freedom for self unless it is vouchsafed for others; there can be no security where there is…

— Felix Frankfurter

I want you to be the only man to give me a how to please a man lesson.

— Anonymous

“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

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

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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

“Don't feel better than anybody, because you feel like something. Always have it at the back of your mind that you were…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

I want to show the world that you do have some artists that are ready to go to the next level, and…

— Raekwon

A Christian marriage is [not] one with no problems or even a marriage with fewer problems. (It may well mean more problems.)…

— Keith Miller

Sin always finds it's root in our own selfish desires and self-gratification.

— Joseph Campbell

...in consequence of the film of familiarity and selfish solicitude, we have eyes yet see not, ears that hear not, and hearts…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Affection between adults - if they are really adult in mind and not merely grown up children - and creatures so relatively…

— George Bernard Shaw

Hate nobody; love everybody. It won't cost you anything. Love never costs anything. Love is the most selfish act. It gives you…

— Harbhajan Singh Yogi

“Our mission is to be the resource that helps achieve the mission. However, if we make ourselves the mission, we will be…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

Anyone who does anything for pleasure to indulge his selfish soul will surely burn in Hell.

— Lenny Bruce

If you're competing right, if you're doing it right, competition should be a very selfish pursuit.

— Ben Askren

....I understood why those who had lived through war or economic disasters, and who had built for themselves a good life and…

— Jane Goodall

I think sometimes for me that sounds like almost being selfish. I am not about personal records.

— Pat Summitt

I was loosely aware that most of my characters were fundamentally selfish people, but I didn't intentionally make that a theme.

— Liza Campbell

There are good points about all... wars. People forget self. The virtues of magnanimity, courage, patriotism, etc., are called into life. People…

— Rutherford B. Hayes

When women say no, they are immediately seen as selfish and not team players.

— Sarah Cooper

If you're not selfish enough to want to feel good, then you can't connect with the energy that is your Source which…

— Esther Hicks