Selfish Quotes
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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 am probably the most selfish man you will ever meet in your life. No one gets the satisfaction or the joy that I get out of seeing kids realize there is hope.
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I've been a pretty selfish mom and a very unselfish athlete for about three years now and it's time to put my family first. It's probably time to move on.
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You can't build marriage on a foundation of selfish hedonism, because that would be to promise people only roses, and marriage is also thorns.
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What selfish seeds I plant along the way, black harvest today.
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Whenever the general disposition of the people is such, that each individual regards those only of his interests which are selfish, and does not dwell on, or concern himself for, his share of the general interest, in such a state of things, good government is impossible.
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I've come to the point in my life where I encourage young Native Americans to become much more selfish about their personal needs and wants.
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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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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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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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I'm selfish.
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Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world.
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If you have a mental model that says big corporations are fundamentally greedy and selfish and exploitative, you don't really want to have an exception to that model. It's much easier to say, 'Yes, Whole Foods has been corrupted.'
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Left to themselves people are noble, generous, uncorrupted, they'd create a completely new kind of society if only people weren't so blind, stupid and selfish.
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It is easy to be selfish. It is hard to love who I am. No wonder I am surprised if you do. (p. 199)
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We must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering.
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I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments. That's no contribution to society. [Tennis] was purely selfish; that was for me.
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That's the point of music, to not be selfish and to help other people, I think.
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Americans are less selfish than some of our politicians believe and will respond with reason and resilience to passionate clarity.
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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.
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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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To be honest, I think I'd become a bit selfish with memories of my father. I wanted to hug them close to me.
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I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.
