Selfish Quotes

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Marriage provides an ideal setting for overcoming any tendency to be selfish or self-centered. I think one of the reasons that we are counseled to… — Richard G. Scott
It looks like a waste of life, that mowing down of our best years by a relentless passion which itself falls dead on the top… — Mary Cholmondeley
Selfishness so often is the basis of money problems, which are a very serious and real factor affecting the stability of family life. Selfishness is… — Gordon B. Hinckley
The dictionary describes a selfish person as one who is 'concerned excessively or exclusively with oneself: seeking pleasure or well-being without regard for others.' May… — H. Burke Peterson
War, and more wars, are helping Government to siphon the earnings of its people into its treasury for its own selfish purpose, which is to… — Walter Russell
Be not unwilling in what thou doest, neither selfish nor unadvised nor obstinate; let not over-refinement deck out thy thought; be not wordy nor a… — Marcus Aurelius
YOU'RE TOO DAMN SELFISH!!! — Owen Hart
Millennials are often portrayed as apathetic, disinterested, tuned out and selfish. None of those adjectives describe the Millennials I've been privileged to meet and work… — Chelsea Clinton
Iâ€™m a fan of the word selfish. Self. Ish. When I say I have gotten a lot more self-ish, I mean I am less concerned… — Matthew McConaughey
When I do have time to work on music, I'm kind of selfish, and would rather work on my own stuff than someone else's. — Unknown Author
God is not harsh; He is holy. He is not selfish; He is sovereign. He is not unfeeling; He is all-knowing. Like David, we need… — Beth Moore
Self-care is not selfish. You cannot serve from an empty vessel. — Eleanor Brown
A person can perhaps trust his eyes only to the amount of truth his heart does not mind to speak openly to the people to… — Unknown Author
Sometimes the words against a selfish have to be sharp, straight and blunt; it is very much like after the failure of all medications to… — Unknown Author
The trouble with selfish motives is that they harden into principles, and you end up sending your kids to war for them. — Robert Breault
The moment a mere numerical superiority by either states or voters in this country proceeds to ignore the needs and desires of the minority, and… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
I knew I was breaking about a dozen laws but I guess I had different attitudes to stuff like that since the war. Laws were… — John Marsden
Furthermore, what profit was it to me that I, rascally slave of selfish ambitions that I was, read and understood by myself as many books… — Saint Augustine
This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being a force of nature instead… — George Bernard Shaw
If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit. — C.S. Lewis

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