Selfish Quotes
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Yet one more item is needed to complete success, and that is the rendering of service to others in the community. Without this the mere satisfaction of selfish desire does not reach the top notch.
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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 snow strikes down from the head, and checks the glow of feeling. Who wants to survive into old age after abdicating all his faculties one by one, and be sans teeth, sans eyes, sans memory, sans hope, sans sympathy?
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I'm selfish.
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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 plodders, full of distrust and sneers.
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I am suffering incessant temptations to uncharitable thoughts at present; one of those black moods in which nearly all one's friends seem to be selfish or even false. And how terrible that there should be even a kind of pleasure in thinking evil.
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For myself, suffering doesnt make me a good person; it makes me selfish. Why do we think that people who have less should find it edifying?
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An artist has to be selfish; otherwise, he's not true to his own art.
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Some books inspire one to read, and some inspire one to write; for selfish reasons, I'm always looking for the latter.
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It's not a selfish desire, growing a beard, but maybe I need to not have the beard, and it'll bring us more wins.
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Even without love, I can live fine alone. It's not like I've always had what I wanted. In my life not even once... I was never selfish nor full of greed. The things I want to do, the things I want, the things I wish for... have I ever even had any of those, for at least once in my whole life? I can live fine without love. I will find a way to survive. Dying is hell. Why is living supposed to be hell?
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Catwoman isn't a 'joiner.' She's a solo operator. She isn't naturally heroic; she's fairly selfish.
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Some men spend their lives watching bees and ants, noting down the habits of these insects; my pleasure is to watch the human mind, noting how unselfish instincts rise to the surface and sink back again, making way for selfish instincts, each equally necessary, for the world would perish were it to become entirely selfish or entirely unselfish.
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Do we have the right now to tell them that when Saint Francis begged the Lord to teach him to want to console instead of seeking to be consoled - to teach him to want to love instead of desiring to be loved - that he was really being selfish? Because he knew the only way to be fulfilled and pleased and happy was to give instead of trying to get.
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I would have been a terrible mother because I'm basically a very selfish human being. Not that that has stopped most people going off and having children.
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Marriage is a mystery, and part of it is just being kind to each other, not being selfish.
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The profit motive, when it is the sole basis of an economic system, encourages a cutthroat competition and selfish ambition that inspires men to be more concerned about making a living than making a life.
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I think I was a pretty selfish athlete.
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Prayer is not the cunning art of using God, subjecting Him to one's selfish ends in an effort to get out of Him what you want.
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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 busybody.
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People talk of the courage of convictions, but in actual life a man's duty to his family may make a rigid course seem a selfish indulgence of his own righteousness.
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Even cynical, selfish people will realize, one way or the other, that it's not in their self-interest to act in self-destructive ways.
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It's so easy to be selfish in your 20s and not want to sacrifice.
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I've dated athletes before but it's too tough because we have the same job, we deal with the same problems and both do a very selfish sport.
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Let me not hurt, by any selfish deed Or thoughtless word, the heart of foe or friend; Nor would I pass, unseeing, worthy need, Or sin by silence when I should defend... "The world is better that I lived to-day."
