Selfish Quotes

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I realized that I had granted my illness lordship over me. In viewing my depression as a despot subjecting me to its savage fancies, I… — Eric G. Wilson
Every divorce is the result of selfishness on the part of one or the other or both parties to a marriage contract. Someone is thinking… — Spencer W. Kimball
The endeavor to change universal power by selfish supplication I do not believe in. — Thomas A. Edison
To say grace, knowing that people on this globe are starving, indicates a highly selfish acquiescence in the arrogantly supposed favoritism of the almighty. A… — Barbara Smoker
Patriotism is the opposite of selfish individualism. — David Ehrenfeld
Patriotism! It is used to define so many diversities, to justify so many wrongs, to compass so many ends, that its life is killed out;… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Nothing will make me change my principles. Even with the knife at my neck I shall still declare, up to this day, the poor have… — Jean-Paul Marat
Miracles are everywhere to be found when priesthood callings are magnified. When faith replaces doubt, when selfless service eliminates selfish striving, the power of God… — Thomas S. Monson
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
The love of money is the source of an enormous amount of good; the fact that the good is a by-product of the selfish pursuit… — Leo Rosten
Anorexia is such a self-consuming, selfish disease. It's all about you. Becoming a mother, all of a sudden it wasn't about me anymore. — Tracey Gold
Because of my age and because there's more work on the small screen. What it's missing in quality it makes up for in quantity. From… — Cesar Romero
In the book, America had already been weakened by bio terror plagues before waves of selfish violence took down the rest. But the real enemy… — David Brin
Heaven would be Hell in no time if every cruel, selfish, vicious soul went to Heaven. — Anne Rice
People who are cognitively busy are also more likely to make selfish choices, use sexist language, and make superficial judgments in social situations. — Daniel Kahneman
The United States has lost her unique position as a leader in the progress of civilization and has taken up her place simply as one… — Charles Eliot Norton
I've dated athletes before but it's too tough because we have the same job, we deal with the same problems and both do a very… — Tyson Gay
The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. We have no selfish ends… — Woodrow Wilson
No knowledge, however thorough and extensive, no brilliance and perspicuity, no dialectic sophistication, will preserve us from the commmonness of thought and will. It is… — Max Stirner
Our Savior gave Himself in unselfish service. He taught that each of us should follow Him by denying ourselves of selfish interests in order to… — Dallin H. Oaks

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