Selfish Quotes · Page 30

Selfish— a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice.

— George Eliot

Courage... is not a selfish attribute: it is only possible if you are pursuing a wider and more worthy goal.

— Ted Malloch

I'm a person who's fine saying 'No.' I like saying to myself, "no gossiping," "no nagging."

— Gretchen Rubin

The Bible says somewhere that we are desperately selfish. I think we would have discovered that fact without the Bible.

— Abraham Lincoln

Dear women; I hear you're being unreasonable and selfish. Could you stop so us good ones don't get the blame?

— Anonymous

“I feel strongly that it is the selfish person who needs to change, not the selfless person. (Zhang)”

— Anonymous

“An apology is usually a disguised request for a key to the cage of guilt or regret.”

— @Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It's a good thing selfish people like themselves so much; they usually end up alone!

— Sarah Moores

There are many selfish people who are extremely original, then they take those pure ideas and use them to raise themselves up,…

— Daniel Smith

I think if we want to find happiness by finding a life partner, then it's a little selfish. You should be complete…

— Shahid Kapoor

As white Americans, we sometimes think it's enough to say that we aren't racist. But that's selfish - that's just being worried…

— Tom Izzo

Maybe coming clean is the ultimate selfish act. A way to absolve yourself by hurting someone who doesn't deserve to be hurt.

— Cindy Chupack

“Because apparently I’m more selfish than I thought. I simply can’t bear to be without her.” Stoneville’s expression softened. “Now that’s what…

— Sabrina Jeffries

Getting married has shifted my focus, in such a profound way. You just realize, "Oh, I can't be so selfish anymore. There's…

— Jason Biggs

I'm trying to do music which inspires the desire to transcend politics, which has a limited and selfish and egoist and unknowledgable…

— Wayne Shorter

“The subsistence mentality of a person is a prison in which his personal joy is detained. If you want to live in…

— Israelmore Ayivor

It was about the compelling need to make countries get along to prevent war, in contrast with the totally petty and selfish…

— Jay Roach

We are together and you wanted to marry her?, I know someday, somehow you are going to leave me. I can't be…

— Aireen Pontillo

“Can we take a moment of silence for Jack? That rotten, horse-faced Rose could have inched to the side to make room…

— Meghan Quinn

“Complex adaptations like “being a little selfish” and “not being willing to work without reward” are human universals. The strength might vary…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

Some might say that looking inside of ourselves for spiritual truths is egocentric and selfish, and that egolessness and selflessness lie in…

— Tarthang Tulku

The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the…

— Frances Wright

But have you never noticed that when one has been trying to do something really good one is much nearer committing some…

— Geraldine Jewsbury

...the crimes of violence committed for selfish, personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majorem gloriam Dei, out of…

— Arthur Koestler

I am not trying to give an image of a fairytale, perfect, everything else, I am just being myself.

— Rebecca Loos

I want you to realize that your the only one for me, and I will put all the other guys behind.

— Anonymous

You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.

— Ralph Steadman

You don't want to make it a selfish thing, like 'I need to score!'

— Domantas Sabonis

“Misha noticed the change in her immediately and he felt selfishly proud of being the cause of it.”

— Zøe Haslie

“Selflessness. Humility. Truthfulness. These are the three marks of an honorable man.”

— Suzy Kassem

“If I put others first, I will never find myself being last.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.

— Anonymous

“You aren't my type. But I'm beginning to think that's not such bad thing.”

— Lorelei James

You’re selfish and you’re cold, and I’m tired of getting frostbite when I touch you. (Acheron)

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“More or less we are all Selfish. When it's come to Friendship, I do think that fish cant jump onto the ship!”

— Shah Moazzem

One of the worst things sin did for man was to make him selfish, for selfishness cannot love.

— Andy Murray

The idea that affable Boris[Johnson] is actually divisive, selfish and unreliable is Mr 's biggest weakness.

— James Kirkup

Sometimes we need to be a little bit selfish to get what our hearts desire even if it means hurting someone.

— Kaya

If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.

— George Carlin