Selfish Quotes
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I don't see anything wrong with telling someone that you are selfish with their love and that you can't stand sharing them with anyone else.
Vic Fuentes
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In my team, I don't want selfish players. I prefer to lose a game than have selfish players. I don't want that in my club. Never.
Antonio Conte
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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.
Jerry Lewis
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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.
Melanie Roach
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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.
C. S. Lewis
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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.
Mario Cuomo
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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 selfish.
Nicole Scherzinger
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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.
John Stuart Mill
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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.
Robert Baden-Powell
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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.
Sherman Alexie
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Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world.
Lord Byron
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I'm selfish.
Kendrick Lamar
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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.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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That's the point of music, to not be selfish and to help other people, I think.
Zachary Wayne Farro
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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.
Arthur Ashe
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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.
Jennifer Grant
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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.
Alan Keyes
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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.
Emily Bronte
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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?
Katherine Boo
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The world is so competitive, aggressive, consumive, selfish and during the time we spend here we must be all but that.
Jose Mourinho
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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.'
John Mackey
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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.
Tom Stoppard
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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)
Jeanette Winterson
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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.
Katharine Hepburn