Best Being Selfish Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I think I was righteous. I saw myself as the good guy in my own movie. I didn't get into many fights when I was younger, but when I did, they were righteous. I always thought I was defending something good. I fought for friends who couldn't fight for themselves. I was still being selfish and arrogant, but I was focused on what was fair and unfair.”

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Author:Jo Nesbo

“My mom can't defend herself to the world. She is such an amazing woman, with such an open heart. It's a real hard line, and I crossed it. I took everyone's life story and assumed it would be a great thing to put on screen. I was being selfish and I feel so horrible about it. I feel so guilty.”

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Author:Nikki Reed

“He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.”

“Fear-of not being loved, of abandonment, of being thought to be selfish-is the main thing that keeps us vulnerable and bound in the chains of emotional dependence. Therefore, our two most difficult challenges are to truly believe it is okay for us to be ourselves and to learn to live with, move through, and heal our fears.”

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Author:Sue Thoele

“Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.”

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Book:The Erich Fromm Reader: Readings Selected and Edited by Rainer Funk

Source: The Erich Fromm Reader: Readings Selected and Edited by Rainer Funk

“The energy crisis has not yet overwhelmed us, but it will if we do not act quickly. It's a problem that we will not be able to solve in the next few years, and it's likely to get progressively worse through the rest of this century. We must not be selfish or timid if we hope to have a decent world for our children and grandchildren. We simply must balance our demand for energy with our rapidly shrinking resources. By acting now we can control our future instead of letting the future control us.”

“I played Lucifer once, which is sort of a difficult character to research. I thought to myself, "We all have the potential to be selfish, to be cruel - at least to think evil thoughts, even if we don't ever act out on them. Even if we don't ever think we behave badly, we probably do more than we realize."”

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Author:Viggo Mortensen

“I'm not saying I'm going to rule the world, I'm going to change the world. But I guarantee I will spark the brain that will change the world. And that's our job. It's to spark somebody else watching us. We might not be the one, but let's not be selfish. And because we['re] not going to change the world, not talk about how we should change it. I don't know how to change it. But I know if I keep talking about how dirty it is out here, somebody's going to clean it up!”

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Author:Tupac Shakur

“Few human creatures would consent to be changed into any of the lower animals for a promise of the fullest allowance of a beast's pleasures; no intelligent human being would consent to be a fool, no instructed person would be an ignoramus, no person of feeling and conscience would be selfish and base, even though they should be persuaded that the fool, the dunce, or the rascal is better satisfied with his lot than they are with theirs.”

Source: The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill

“I want to show the world that you do have some artists that are ready to go to the next level, and instead of being selfish with their career they'll open up the door to other people. I'm in a position to open up the door to help other people do what I do.”

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Author:Raekwon

“Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.”

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Author:Khalil Gibran

“It is absurd to suppose, if this is God's world, that men must always be selfish barbarians.”

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Book:The Coming People

Source: The Coming People

“True love is not the helpless desire to possess the cherished object of one's fervent affection; true love is the disciplined generosity we require of ourselves for the sake of another when we would rather be selfish; that, at least, is how I have taught myself to love my wife.”

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Book:The Emperor of Ocean Park

Source: The Emperor of Ocean Park

“When your kid is being selfish or greedy and you want to help them not be that way, you have to find a way to articulate it and inspire them.”

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Author:Louis C. K.

“I want to be an NBA all-star and help my team win. That's what it's all about, is winning. I'm a competitor... People said a lot about me being selfish and stuff like that. Getting into the league, I can't wait to shut that down. I'm a guy who wants to play and to win and love my teammates.”

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Author:Shabazz Muhammad

“Do not be selfish and feel new people will take more of the teacher's attention and you won't get it. That's nonsense. With that attitude, you won't get it. The teacher sees that attitude and will have very little to do with you.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“To be selfish is to sacrifice the nobler for the meaner ends, and to be sordidly content.”

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Book:Speech in Season

Source: Speech in Season

“You're either selfish, or you're a servant...but fundamentally selfish people are terrible friends, terrible lovers, terrible spouses, terrible Christians, terrible parents. They leave a terrible legacy. Will you be selfish? Will you be a servant?...A good marriage is a servant and a servant.”

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Author:Mark Driscoll

“It's enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back.”

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Author:Adrian Grenier

“Know that truth, forgiveness, and love can heal the world. Imagine if all of us could be truthful with ourselves, start forgiving everyone, and start loving everyone. We would no longer be selfish, gossiping would be over, and we would no longer judge one another. The world would become a place where all of us live in love.”

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Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“I have learned to go fully in the face of my dreams. I would recommend you do the same. Now is the time in your life to be selfish. To explore. To take chances. Remember being selfish is not the same as being self-indulgent. You have the gift of time. Use it to do what you love. Believe anything is possible and then work like hell to make it happen.”

“The difficult part of love Is being selfish enough.”

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Book:Required Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces 1955-1982

Source: Required Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces 1955-1982

“As an athlete you're taught to be selfish. When I'm training, it's usually all about me.”

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Author:Ronda Rousey

“Some might say that looking inside of ourselves for spiritual truths is egocentric and selfish, and that egolessness and selflessness lie in working for others in the world. But until we find our inner truth, our work in the world will always revolve around our 'selves'. As long as we think about the world in terms of 'self' and 'others', our actions will be selfish. Our 'self' follows us wherever we go, so positive results will be limited.”

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Author:Tarthang Tulku

“To be selfish, greedy and unwilling to help the needy gives rise to future starvation and clothlessness.”

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Author:Gautama Buddha

“It's good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people.”

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Author:Hugh Hefner

“To talk only about national security, national defense, means to be selfish, ambitious. It is discrimination, isolation. "It is just me. What do I care about others?"”

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Author:Evo Morales

“Ideas that spread win. Ideas don't have to be selfish to win, in fact, it turns out that the more generous the interactions an idea produces, the more likely it is to spread.”

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Author:Seth

“Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.”

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Author:Jane Austen

“I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.”

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Author:Jane Austen

“Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.”

Source: The Law of Success: The Master Wealth-Builder's Complete and Original Lesson Plan forAchieving Your Dreams

“Marriage is a mystery and part of it is just being kind to each other, not being selfish.”

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Author:Aisha Tyler

“Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.”

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Author:Douglas Horton

“You shouldn't punish others for your own choices.”

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Author:Laurence J. Peter

“Great leaders have to know when to divide that line from being selfless to being selfish, and he perfectly chose the time to be selfish and made plays.”

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Author:Michael Irvin

“I love solving problems. It makes me happy to juggle all the jobs I do-figuring out which team is supposed to win on Fox NFL Sunday; reacting off the cuff to Kelly [Ripa, on Live]; and now Good Morning America, trying to fit into that group. The great thing coming from sports is you understand the concept of a team. It leaves no room for being selfish.”

“You can't worry about what people say, but... People always harp on athletes being selfish individualists.”

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Author:Chris Bosh

“These are uncertain times. We cannot be content to rest on yesterday's laurels. These are times when we must strengthen rather than let down those standards which have stood in such good stead in crises that are past. Baseball cannot be selfish, or irresponsible, or lax. Neither can the men who operate it.”

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Author:Branch Rickey

“Historically, education has been about batch processing: standardize everything against the average, rank kids, sort them to see who gets more and who really doesn't deserve to be there. The problem, even if you're just being selfish from an economic standpoint, is we're not producing the talent we need.”

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Author:L. Todd Rose

“That's the point of music, to not be selfish and to help other people, I think.”

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Author:Zac Farro

“I'm trying to teach people not to be selfish. That's the thing. If you have a good thing share it. Of course we're not in a sexual relationship.”

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Author:Jhene Aiko

“To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate.”

“Even if all we have is a little, the Lord desires us to be joyfully generous, so that He will have for His church an abundance for every good work. Let us not be selfish or deceived by money. In a real sense, money is not a blessing; it's a test.”

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Author:Francis Frangipane

“If the church is going to make a difference, it will need to go through the "big give-up" stage. Churches will need to quit being selfish and become relevant.”

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Author:John C. Maxwell

“I think sometimes for me that sounds like almost being selfish. I am not about personal records.”

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Author:Pat Summitt

“I've always been antagonistic to any naïve application of the selfish gene theory to politics. Some people have attempted to suggest that it means we are selfish or we should be selfish.”

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Author:Richard Dawkins

“Now when the historic religions give trivial answers to these very tragic questions of our day, when an evangelist says, for instance, we mustn't hope for a summit meeting, we must hope in Christ without spelling out what this could mean in our particular nuclear age. This is the irrelevant answer, when another Evangelist says if America doesn't stop being selfish, it will be doomed. This is also a childish answer because nations are selfish and the question about America isn't whether we will be selfish or unselfish, but will we be sufficiently imaginative to pass the Reciprocal Trade Acts.”

“A player should never be selfish and should always contribute to team's victory.”

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Author:Shahid Afridi

“I feel like God has intrusted a lot into me and I don't want to sit on it and be selfish. I want to think long term on how we can help this next generation of Christian filmmakers to make a big impact for God.”

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Author:Stephen Kendrick

“Christians, like everyone else, are prone to be selfish and scared, and wanting others to think well of them. So, although we possess what one part of us knows is the greatest news in the world, we don't act as though it is. Consequently, we share the gospel less than we should.”

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Author:Mark Dever

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