Selfish Quotes

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I worry sometimes that I'm a bit moralistic; always writing about men who are learning to grow up, not be so self-absorbed, selfish or badly… — David Nicholls
The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow… — Florence Nightingale
The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To life a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You know, help others.… — Joel Osteen
The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people… — Pope John Paul II
All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving… — Pope Paul VI
Yet, while producing increasingly selfish people, the mantra of the Left, and therefore of the universities and the media, has been for generations that capitalism… — Dennis Prager
Sure, I have friends, plenty of friends, and they all come around wantin' to borrow money. I've always been generous with my friends and family,… — Richard Pryor
False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for… — Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome. — George Santayana
It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous. — Jean-Paul Sartre
If believing in yourself and going after what you want in life and realising your worth is ruthless and selfish, then I'm definitely ruthless and… — Nicole Scherzinger
The sad thing is most people have to check with someone before they do the things that make them happy. We're all passing through; the… — Gene Simmons
My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better. — Anna Deavere Smith
Good mothers make all kinds of choices. Making a decision that might sound selfish does not make a woman a bad mother. — Jada Pinkett Smith
It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Sometimes, idealistic people are put off the whole business of networking as something tainted by flattery and the pursuit of selfish advantage. But virtue in… — Sonia Sotomayor
What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man. — Herbert Spencer
A man's sentiments are generally just and right, while it is second selfish thought which makes him trim and adopt some other view. The best… — Leland Stanford
I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven. — Barbra Streisand
Our true passions are selfish. — Stendhal

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