Selfish Quotes

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When you win, you often lose, that's just a fact. There's no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish… — Abraham Verghese
To love is to value. Only a rationally selfish man, a man of self esteem, is capable of love - because he is the only… — Ayn Rand
When the switch fell I could feel it upon my flesh; when it welted and ridged it was my blood that ran, and I would… — William Faulkner
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives: Be kind anyway. If you are successful you will win some false friends… — Mother Teresa
Huamns, uregulated, are cruel and capricious; violet and selfish; miserable and quarrelsome. It is only after their instincts and basic emotions have been controlled that… — Lauren Oliver
And yet there was something about his strength, his arrogance, his sheer size that got under my skin. He probably couldn't even spell vanilla. He… — Josh Lanyon
Deep down, underneath all his layers of stupidity, heâ€™s a really good man. He may act out far too many selfish thoughts, says all the… — Cecelia Ahern
Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others. — Ouida
Right now, I wish Iâ€™d stayed because I want you at my side. That sounds pretty selfish, but I donâ€™t mean it that way. You… — Ann Aguirre
It's just as I thought," she said. "I prefer you to every single one of these. Some of these look far too proud of themselves,… — Diana Wynne Jones
I like to receive money for my work. But I can pass that up this time. I like to have people know my work is… — Ayn Rand
I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US that thinks Americans are not yet selfish… — Christopher Hitchens
Too unconcerned to love and too passionless to hate, too detached to be selfish and too lifeless to be unselfish, too indifferent to experience joy… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and… — Simone de Beauvoir
The commonest weakness of our race is our ability to rationalize our most selfish purposes. — Robert A. Heinlein
I doubt if I have made the best use of all my calamities. Soft, amiable natures they would have refined to saintliness; of strong, evil… — Charlotte Bronte
The truth is I always loved him. From the first time I saw him he was so great. But that time I was hurt. I… — Ai Yazawa
They donâ€™t think â€œI care,â€ â€œI hurt,â€ or â€œI have feelings.â€ It just seems like Iâ€™m always â€œwrong,â€ always â€œselfish,â€ always â€œself-centeredâ€ and everything else… — Beatrice Sparks
When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival. — Yann Martel
The opportunity to love a dog and to treat it with kindness is an opportunity for a lost and selfish heart to be redeemed. They… — Dean Koontz

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