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“I'm just selfish. I have to be for what I do.”

“California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.”

World Way Looks Effort Empty Selfish California Void Pacific

Author:D. H. Lawrence

“Racing is a very selfish, self-centred, self-glorifying thing. My wife's life for 14 years was centered around me. It was all about me. It was all for my ego.”

Years Self Wife Ego My Wife Selfish Racing

Author:Greg LeMond

“What about feeling sorry for those who pay the taxes? Those who are people that no one feels sorry for. They are asked to give and give until they have no more to give. And when they say 'enough,' they are called selfish.”

People Giving Feels Enough Feelings Pay Taxes Sorry Selfish Feeling Sorry

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood.”

Years Individual Nature White Miracle Asking Selfish

Book:BRING ME A UNICORN

Source: BRING ME A UNICORN

“I believe in aliens. I think it would be way too selfish of us as mankind to believe we are the only lifeforms in the universe.”

Thinking Way Believe Would Be Universe I Believe Mankind I Believe In Selfish Aliens

Author:Demi Lovato

“I think we are living in selfish times. I'm the first one to say that I'm the most selfish. We live in the so-called 'first world,' and we may be first in a lot of things like technology, but we are behind in empathy.”

Thinking World Firsts May Behinds Technology Empathy Selfish

Author:Javier Bardem

“We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.”

Want Imagination Existence Teacher Imagine Habit Selfish Chains Live Life Imagine That Inability Commonplace Escaping Clinging People Don't Change

Author:Anne Sullivan Macy

“Being selfish to me means that you have to look out for yourself and you don't have to sacrifice.”

Looks Mean Sacrifice Selfish Selfishness Being Selfish Look At Yourself

Author:Herbie Mann

“Being stubborn has helped, being selfish is not a bad thing.”

Selfish Selfishness Bad Things Stubborn Being Selfish Being Stubborn

Author:Herbie Mann

“A selfish man is a thief.”

Men Selfish Thieves Selfish Men

Author:Jose Marti

“The reason I play music is to touch people - for selfish reasons, as well. It feels good to make someone else feel something, whether it's a kiss, a painting, good idea or it's a song.”

People Feels Wells Ideas Reason Play Song Painting Kissing Music Is Selfish Feel Good Good Ideas Selfish Reasons

Author:Dave Matthews

“I considered becoming a priest very seriously. I wanted to travel the world. By the time I turned 16, I realized I was only in it for selfish reasons. And, more importantly, I didn't want to sacrifice the ladies!”

World Want Reason Wanted Sacrifice Becoming Travel Selfish I Realized Priests Funny Travel Travel The World Selfish Reasons

Author:James McAvoy

“The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places.”

World Lying Literature Fool Fairs Selfish Selfishness Liars Coward Not Fair Being Selfish High Places Selfish People Selfish Love Not Selfish I Am Selfish Selfish World

Author:Bryant H. McGill

“An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness.”

Humans Suffering Evil Movement Institutions Selfish Recognition Reform Reformation Human Suffering Not Selfish American Red Cross Reform Movements

Book:The Red Cross in peace and war

Source: The Red Cross in peace and war

“People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience.”

People Should Children Art Married Selfish Selfishness

Author:Mikhail Baryshnikov

“I was kind of a selfish child, who always wanted things his way, and I've kind of taken that over into my relationship with the world.”

World Way Kind Children Wanted Taken Selfish

Author:Alan Moore

“The world is so competitive, aggressive, consumive, selfish and during the time we spend here we must be all but that.”

World Selfish Aggressive

Author:Jose Mourinho

“In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.”

Way Giving Persons Marriage Demand Patterns Partners Selfish Flexible Unselfish Unselfishness Giving Way

Book:A Severed Head

Source: A Severed Head

“I think my heart is quite selfish. If I followed my heart, I would not be a good person. But I have moral principles. I have to sit down and reflect.”

Ifs Thinking Heart Persons Moral Principles My Heart Down And Selfish Good Person Moral Principles Being A Good Person

Author:Jo Nesbo

“Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.”

Ifs Religious Pleasure Virtue Highest Gains Rewards Sake Selfish Truest

Author:John Henry Newman

“I worry sometimes that I'm a bit moralistic; always writing about men who are learning to grow up, not be so self-absorbed, selfish or badly behaved. I wonder if that's dull and liberal and wimpy? I should probably write something that celebrates wickedness.”

Ifs Men Should Writing Self Sometimes Grows Bits Wonder Worry Growing Up Selfish Celebrate Dull Wickedness Self Absorbed

Author:David Nicholls

“The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.”

Sacrifice Selfish Vain Lazy Nurse Laziness Martyr Nursing Martyrdom Martyred

Author:Florence Nightingale

“The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To live a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You know, help others. But that's really the essence of the Christian faith.”

Knows Helping Christian Honor Integrity Essence Selfish Helping Others Christian Faith Being Selfish

Author:Joel Osteen

“The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.”

People Heart Facts Lying Pleasure Family Danger Comfort Catholic Independence Selfish Midst Idols Family Life Pleasures Of Life Happy Independence Day Usa 4th Of July Wishes Unhappy Family

Book:John Paul II and the Laity

Source: John Paul II and the Laity

“All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.”

“Yet, while producing increasingly selfish people, the mantra of the Left, and therefore of the universities and the media, has been for generations that capitalism and the free market, not the welfare state, produces selfish people.”

People Has Beens States Left Generations Media Produce Capitalism University Selfish Welfare Free Market Mantras Welfare State Selfish People

Author:Dennis Prager

“Sure, I have friends, plenty of friends, and they all come around wantin' to borrow money. I've always been generous with my friends and family, with money, but selfish with the important stuff like love.”

Important Stuff My Friends Selfish Plenty Generous Family And Friends Like Love

Author:Richard Pryor

“It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure.”

Ifs Want Needs Giving Persons Use Pleasure Involved Sexuality Selfish Lust Impulse

Author:Mortimer Adler

“We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others.”

Concerned Selfish

Book:Desires, Right & Wrong: The Ethics of Enough

Source: Desires, Right & Wrong: The Ethics of Enough

“False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons.”

Mean Persons Used House Land Cost Riches Selfish Oppression

Author:Joseph Franklin Rutherford

“Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude itself is, in one sense, overcome.”

Men Overcoming Terror Terrorism Selfish Selfishness Inferiority

Author:George Santayana

“It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.”

Men Selfish Fierce Savages Unjust Apes Mischievous Vulture

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“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.”

Ifs Want Believe What You Want Selfish Believe In Yourself Realising Ruthless Nicole

Author:Nicole Scherzinger

“The sad thing is most people have to check with someone before they do the things that make them happy. We're all passing through; the least we can do is be happy, and the only way to do that is by being selfish.”

People Way Can Do Selfish Checks Passing Passings Being Happy Passing Through Being Selfish Sad Things

Author:Gene Simmons

“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.”

Doe Has Beens Concern Theater Mirrors Selfish Stingy

Author:Anna Deavere Smith

“Good mothers make all kinds of choices. Making a decision that might sound selfish does not make a woman a bad mother.”

Kind Doe Might Mother Choices Sound Decision Selfish All Kinds Good Mother Bad Mother

Author:Jada Pinkett Smith

“It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.”

Courses Difficult Emotion Mistake Truth Is Comfortable Insight Selfish Selfishness Making Mistakes Accord Being Selfish We Make Mistakes Selfish World

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Sometimes, idealistic people are put off the whole business of networking as something tainted by flattery and the pursuit of selfish advantage. But virtue in obscurity is rewarded only in Heaven. To succeed in this world you have to be known to people.”

People World Sometimes Whole Heaven Known Virtue This World Succeed Advantage Selfish Pursuit Flattery Networking Obscurity Idealistic Tainted

Author:Sonia Sotomayor

“What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.”

Men Law Selfish Selfishness Beast Cages Wild Beasts Selfish Men

Book:Social Statics: Great Essays

Source: Social Statics: Great Essays

“I'm a selfish, little pig of a man.”

Men Littles Selfish Pigs

Author:Lewis Black

“A man's sentiments are generally just and right, while it is second selfish thought which makes him trim and adopt some other view. The best reforms are worked out when sentiment operates, as it does in women, with the indignation of righteousness.”

Men Doe Views Selfish Reform Righteousness Sentiments Sentimental Indignation Righteous Indignation

Author:Leland Stanford

“Our true passions are selfish.”

Passion Selfish True Passion

Book:The Red and the Black: World Classics

Source: The Red and the Black: World Classics

“In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.”

Men Moral Marriage Husband Selfish Selfishness Degeneration Fatty

Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

“I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.”

Persons Beautiful Simple Personality Complexes Driven Selfish Generous Lazy Laziness Unattractive

Author:Barbra Streisand

“It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish.”

Ifs Self Duty Easier Selfish

Book:The second sin

Source: The second sin

“If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts get politicised? I have values I inherited from my father. He helped many. Anyone, even a postman knocking on our door would get a glass of water and some sweets.”

Ifs Values Dies Father Social Water Effort Doors Sweet Glasses Selfish Motive Social Work Knocking Premature Postman Premature Death Selfish Motives

Author:Sachin Tendulkar

“One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.”

Inspirational Inspiring Successful Relationship Sad Disease Selfish Selfishness Successful People Successful Business Being Selfish Great Mother Selfish People Selfish Love Selfish Person I Am Selfish Selfish World

Author:Mother Teresa

“Next to the very young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.”

Young Next Selfish Selfishness

Author:William Makepeace Thackeray

“The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.”

People Real Character Evil Moral Selfish Famine Physical Attraction Moral Evil

Author:Charles Trevelyan

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