A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Our minds have been built by selfish genes, but they have been built to be social, trustworthy and cooperative. — Matt Ridley Copy Share Image
Sometimes, idealistic people are put off the whole business of networking as something tainted by flattery and the pursuit of selfish advantage.… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
You don't want to make it a selfish thing, like 'I need to score!' — Domantas Sabonis Copy Share Image
I love solving problems. It makes me happy to juggle all the jobs I do-figuring out which team is supposed to win… — Michael Strahan Copy Share Image
I immediately felt better about killing him. I’ve never known a Trevor who wasn’t a total douchebag. It’s just one of those… — Cherie Priest Copy Share Image
Work, especially if you're lucky in what you do, is one of the great pleasures of life, but - like all pleasures… — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
My co-stars call me selfish. They say, 'You are only interested in yourself and what you are only interested is yourself and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
A lot of folks would say that if I had been a little more selfish with my bat, I would have had… — Viv Richards Copy Share Image
I didn't do this for other people; I did this for me. I fought for this right for me - does that… — Jack Kevorkian Copy Share Image
I wish I could write librettos for the rest of my life. It is the purest of human pleasures, a heavenly hermaphroditism… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever equalled the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
What will a man not do when frantic with love? To what baseness will he not demean himself? What pangs will he… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Savage and furious nations, perpetually at war, adore, under diverse names, some God, conformable to their ideas, that is to say, cruel,… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities. — Ann Richards Copy Share Image
Maybe I'm not selfish enough for a striker but I enjoy football too much. — Eidur Gudjohnsen Copy Share Image
Why would the apostles lie?....Liars always lie for selfish reasons. If they lied, what was their motive, what did they get out… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Someday our grandchildren will very likely look back at the individual, selfish control of the wealth of the world by a small… — Corinne McLaughlin Copy Share Image
I wanted to experience college and to travel for my selfish reasons. — Keeley Hazell Copy Share Image
Apart from selfish reasons, such as fear of punishments, fear of blame, of dishonour, etc, there remains only two motives that can… — African Spir Copy Share Image
