Selfish Quotes

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Before my accident I was a little too... selfish and self-absorbed and for me, to now be at the place where I can kinda give… — Rick Allen
I would not be a good mother. I mean, I love being an aunt to my niece and nephew. And I used to want to,… — Kelly Clarkson
The modern city is ugly not because it is a city but because it is not enough of a city, because it is a jungle,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Perhaps it is better in this present world of ours that a revolutionary idea or invention instead of being helped and patted be hampered and… — Nikola Tesla
You instantly become less selfish. You can't be the biggest person in the world anymore-they are. [Motherhood] really grounds you. — Keri Russell
Rather than assume that the wealthy are a monolithic, selfish and unfeeling lot who must be subjugated by the force of the state, set a… — Leon G. Cooperman
The malignity that never forgets or forgives is found only in base and ignoble natures, whose aims are selfish, and whose means are indirect, cowardly,… — George Stillman Hillard
If you want to be wisely selfish, care for others — Dalai Lama
...the crimes of violence committed for selfish, personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majorem gloriam Dei, out of a self-sacrificing devotion… — Arthur Koestler
Selfishness is never so exquisitely selfish as when it is on its knees. ... Self turns what would otherwise be a pure and powerful prayer… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
I would like to appeal to all those in whose hands the future of mankind lies, to use their power not to destroy or kill,… — Poul Hartling
It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes. — Andrew Jackson
I want to say to each of you, simply, and directly, I am deeply sorry for my irresponsible and selfish behavior I engaged in. — Tiger Woods
Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish… — Ayn Rand
Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest. — Thomas Sowell
Human beings are not intrinsically selfish, which isolates us from others. We are essentially social animals who depend on others to meet our needs. We… — Dalai Lama
I am probably the most selfish man you will ever meet in your life. No one gets the satisfaction or the joy that I get… — Jerry Lewis
So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish, shrewd… — W. E. B. Du Bois
The Bible says somewhere that we are desperately selfish. I think we would have discovered that fact without the Bible. — Abraham Lincoln
Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for… — Thornton T. Munger

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