“We humans have a dual nature—we are selfish primates who long to be a part of something larger and nobler than ourselves.” — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“Start thinking of your guilt as being selfish, because guilt blocks opportunities from arriving for those you care about and for you.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
If selfish means taking care of my kids and not worrying about anyone else and their drama, then yes.. I am the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There should be an F.A.A. fine for those who bring hot food that emits odor onto the plane. You're deemed selfish, and… — Iliza Shlesinger Copy Share Image
I make no bones about it, I'm a product of my upbringing and of the time I was brought up, so I'm… — David Davis Copy Share Image
If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
“Often times you may find yourself in a relationship with a guy who looks like he is a mature adult, but then… — Osayi Osar-Emokpae Copy Share Image
For myself, suffering doesnt make me a good person; it makes me selfish. Why do we think that people who have less… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
For what can be more noble than to slay oneself? Not literally. Not with a blade in the guts. But to extinguish… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
the scientist's religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Stop. You can’t love me because you’re lonely, or because I am the only one who doesn’t piss you off. I want… — Caitlyn S Copy Share Image
The opportunity to love a dog and to treat it with kindness is an opportunity for a lost and selfish heart to… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
As individuals die every moment, how insensitive and fabricated a love it is to set aside a day from selfish routine in… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“You selfish bitch!" She had known for a long time that putting her needs above those of Adam's wife and children was… — Anna McPartlin Copy Share Image
Fear-of not being loved, of abandonment, of being thought to be selfish-is the main thing that keeps us vulnerable and bound in… — Sue Thoele Copy Share Image
I've always known that the quality of love was the mind, even though the body sometimes refuses this knowledge. The body lives… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“It is meaningless to rise while leaving others behind! It is also unethical and selfish! If you know the paths to rise,… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I hope that I am, in a way, helping and touching other people with my music, and being a musician and having… — Jack Garratt Copy Share Image
Business is a very beautiful mechanism to solve problems, but we never use it for that purpose. We only use it to… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It seems hopeless, hopeless. Those who eat meat [at public expense] are a mean, selfish lot, and so the country is doomed.… — Yoshida Shoin Copy Share Image
“There are, I suppose, some men as vain, as selfish, and as heartless as she is, and, perhaps, such women may be… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
“Americans today confuse freedom with not being asked to sacrifice. The fact that you can't have everything you want exactly when you… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
I know I'm not a selfish player. People around me know I'm not a selfish player. I do everything I can to… — Carmelo Anthony Copy Share Image
The sad thing is most people have to check with someone before they do the things that make them happy. We're all… — Gene Simmons Copy Share Image
Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“I want what I want! And I want to find what I want in the exact place, at exact time that I… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“In fact, the more each person can remove his or her ego from the discussion and focus on the subject matter, the… — Matthew Kelly Copy Share Image
I thought he'd pick me, I know he has kids, but when it came down to it, I really thought he'd pick… — Anna McPartlin Copy Share Image
That we are selfish gives us the opportunity to gain the power so that, in time, we might be selfless. To give… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
People always tend to chose what is best for them. They pretend to be unselfish, all so that they can feel good… — Cheon Eunbi Copy Share Image
Humans. Violent but peace-loving. Passionate but cerebral. Humane but cruel. Impulsive but calculating. Generous but selfish. And yet, somehow I knew that… — Katherine Applegate Copy Share Image
Personal prudence, even when dictated by quite other than selfish considerations, surely is no special virtue in a military man; while an… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
It is what it is but I do me and I think people respect that. They see me out in the hood… — Rakim Copy Share Image
“If there were any way for me to become human for you - no matter what the price was, I would pay… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
So many relationships fail because so many people are so selfish. Its an ALL ABOUT ME mindset. Show ME attention or else. — Punkinhead Abhishek Copy Share Image
“Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep, And if I die before I wake,… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
It would be a great misunderstanding of this doctrine to suppose that it is one of selfish indifference about the well-being of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
And maybe some people do it too much, are too selfish and concentrated on chess. But I think that in all professions… — Judit Polgar Copy Share Image
The best thing anyone can give to humanity is God consciousness. Then you can really give them something. But first you have… — George Harrison Copy Share Image