Selfish Quotes

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She's an idiot. She's looking at life through a selfish, lusty haze. — Joy Browne
I played Lucifer once, which is sort of a difficult character to research. I thought to myself, "We all have the potential to be selfish,… — Viggo Mortensen
I step naked into the shower of truth - whole-hearted, bloody-minded, utterly selfish, no longer even pretending to enjoy or understand anything. — Selima Hill
If you're good at something, never do it for free. — Jonathan Nolan
We are all selfish, scared and stupid. — Kieran Flanagan
Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish. Alas, the heart hardens as the blood ceases to run. The cold… — William Makepeace Thackeray
A wise Government seeks to provide the opportunity through which the best of individual achievement can be obtained, while at the same time it seeks… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
As individuals die every moment, how insensitive and fabricated a love it is to set aside a day from selfish routine in prideful, patriotic commemoration… — Criss Jami
To forgive the incessant provocations of daily life - to keep on forgiving the bossy mother-in-law, the bullying husband, the nagging wife, the selfish daughter,… — C.S. Lewis
Where all are selfish, the sage is no better than the fool, and only rather more dangerous. — James Anthony Froude
People who think of themselves as tough-minded and realistic, among them influential political leaders and businessmen as well as go-getters and hustlers of smaller caliber,… — S I Hayakawa
If I give more to myself, I can ask more from myself. Self-regard isn't selfish. — Gretchen Rubin
If we desire to do what will please God, and what will help men, we presently find ourselves taken out of our narrow habits of… — James Freeman Clarke
In Europe first and now in America, elected men have taken it upon themselves to indebt their people to create an atmosphere of dependency. And… — Pope Francis
Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either. — Erich Fromm
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself. — Khalil Gibran
Childlessness doesn't make people selfish; selfishness makes people selfish. — Elizabeth Gilbert
Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race. — William E. Gladstone
I've gotten very good at detaching whenever I have to go away for three months, which I realize is hard on friends and kind of… — Ashley Greene

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