Selfish Quotes

It is easy to be proud & harsh & selfish - so easy. But we have been created for better things.

Mother Teresa
- Proud
- Easy
- Harsh
All of the things that the bible warns you of being: jealous, covetous, murderous, selfish, etc., that's kind of how humans are.

Henry Rollins Black Flag
- Kind
- Selfish
- Jealous

'My big problem with corporate structure is this bizarre sense of loyalty you're supposed to feel - towards what is basically a virus. It grows or dies, like any virus. And you use it for your own selfish ends.' - source

Thom Yorke Radiohead
- Selfish
- Loyalty
But I think writing should be a bit of a struggle. We're not writing things that are going to change the world in big ways. We're writing things that might make people think about people a little bit, but we're not that important. I think a lot of writers think we are incredibly important. I don't feel like that about my fiction. I feel like it's quite a selfish thing at heart. I want to tell a story. I want someone to listen to me. And I love that, but I don't think I deserve the moon on a stick because I do that.

Evie Wyld
- People
- Important
- Writing
Maybe coming clean is the ultimate selfish act. A way to absolve yourself by hurting someone who doesn't deserve to be hurt.

Cindy Chupack
- Clean
- Hurting
- Absolve
This seclusion of the artist with his work, sometimes misconceived as a selfish thing, is in truth as needful a tool as any, if a vision is to be made clear to others. And all the men I have known do creative work obtained it; either mechanically, by the walls of a workroom, or by that withdrawal into themselves which is part of their power.

Georgiana Burne-Jones
- Truth
- Artist
- Create
Before my accident I was a little too... selfish and self-absorbed and for me, to now be at the place where I can kinda give back and inspire people. I'm blessed. I'm really blessed.

Rick Allen Def Leppard
- People
- Blessed
- Accident
The only society that works today is also one founded on mutual respect, on a recognition that we have a responsibility collectively and individually, to help each other on the basis of each other's equal worth. A selfish society is a contradiction in terms.

Tony Blair