Selfish Quotes
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I'm used to living alone, and I like it that way. You become so selfish living alone...I'd make a terrible husband anyway.
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Eventually, I went to college to study psychology, but I was getting more and more TV roles, so I thought, 'You know? It's kind of like psychology, but a little more selfish.' I took a break from school, moved to L.A., and never went back.
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As long as everything is happy at home, I can be totally selfish at work.
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Players need to come in and not take the opportunity for granted and really work hard at the game and make sure it's a team game, it's not a selfish thing. If players have those qualities - they work hard, they're selfless, they put the team before them - I have no issues with them.
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The worst thing people ever say is that 'I can't afford to have kids!' It's selfish, and what infuriates me is when people say they can't do stuff they like go on holidays and buy cars when they have kids. You can - you find the money, you've just got to work harder for it.
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The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.
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I'm a selfish person, and I'm going onstage to have a good time, and I'd love if you want to be a part of it. So if people don't get it, they're wrong. I think they're wrong, and I think they either don't want to have a good time or they just don't like my style.
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It's enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back.
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The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we're so busy now.
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The Bible says somewhere that we are desperately selfish. I think we would have discovered that fact without the Bible.
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The best leaders don't set timid and selfish goals but instead set bold targets that may be harder to achieve.
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The whole brunt of the media and the government is to encourage people to be highly competitive and totally selfish and uncaring of others.
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That's the trick of free market economic theory: it doesn't just ask you to only be selfish and not care about others. It tells you that by being selfish, you are helping others. And, in fact, by trying to directly help others, you will hurt them.
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I'm amazed, as quirky, individual and selfish as most of us are, that anyone stays married for long.
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Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality.
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You live this life being selfish, you're not going to enjoy it like you will when you open your heart and your home up.
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All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent.
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I look back on my life and have to face the fact that I have been narcissistic and selfish.
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'If your actions are motivated by selfish interests rather than God, you are mortgaging tomorrow's joy.'
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History is never antiquated, because humanity is always fundamentally the same. It is always hungry for bread, sweaty with labor, struggling to wrest from nature and hostile men enough to feed its children. The welfare of the mass is always at odds with the selfish force of the strong.
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Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless.
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The difference between appreciation and flattery? That is simple. One is sincere and the other insincere. One comes from the heart out; the other from the teeth out. One is unselfish; the other selfish. One is universally admired; the other universally condemned.
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If we are so contemptibly selfish that we can’t radiate a little happiness and pass on a bit of honest appreciation without trying to screw something out of the other person in return—if our souls are no bigger than sour crab apples, we shall meet with the failure we so richly deserve.
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I enjoy the freedom of living alone and not having anyone interfere with my belongings. I mean, I'm quite a selfish human being. I think being in the public eye and growing up, it's made me quite selfish in some respects. I can be extremely generous with friends, but in relationships I can be quite mean in terms of my time and my affections. I take people for granted, and I'm trying not to do that.
