Top 1200 I Am Selfish Quotes & Sayings - Page 10

To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost.

I realise that I need to be selfish at times as well as smart in decision-making and just not throw away my wicket.

I am so secure in who I am. I really am! And I'm not conceited. I just think, 'Wow, okay, that's the life you want to live.' It wasn't about who he chose. I mean, I had moments, 'Am I not sexy enough? Am I not pretty enough? Am I not smart enough?' But in so many of those questions, I immediately stopped and said, 'No, don't start doing that.' Because you can get stuck in that cycle and you can carry on to other things.

To be stupid and selfish and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness. Though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless.

Who am I? this or the other? Am I one person today and tomorrow another? Am I both at once? A hypocrite before others, and before myself a contemptible woebegone weakling? Or is something within me still like a beaten army fleeing in disorder from a victory already achieved? Who am I? They mock me, these lonely questions of mine. Whoever I am, Thou knowest, O God, I am thine!

...even a tiny bit of deceit is dishonorable when it's used for selfish or cowardly reasons. - Mr. Penderwick

Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands.

Every action that we take has some motivation of either being selfish or altruistic. All that adds up.

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.

The selfish thing about an athlete is you always look at the side of things where you say I could've done that better.

We express true love in obedience to God and service to others- not reckless or selfish behavior- and we choose these behaviors.

Since all motives at bottom are selfish and ignoble, we may judge acts and qualities only be their effects.

If he doesn't follow through with actions, he's either selfish or a liar. Neither makes him sound like The One, does it?

Selfish men were...trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights

Anyone who does anything for pleasure to indulge his selfish soul will surely burn in Hell.

I am not a Somali representative. I am not a Muslim representative. I am not a millennial representative. I am not a woman representative. I am a representative who happens to have all of these marginalized identities and can understand the intersectionality of all of them in a very unique way.

One player's selfish attitude can poison a locker room and make it hard, if not impossible, to establish team work

Grief is selfish. It is indulged in for self-gratification, not for love. Cosmic man knows the beauty and unreality of death.

I am not as good as I ought to be. I am not as good as I want to be. I am not as good as I'm going to be. But I am thankful that I am better than I used to be.

I hope I am allowed to say that the reason I am popular is because of the way I am, the way I race, and the way I talk. I am just the old-fashioned, reliable guy, and people always know I am after one thing: 'There is Jens. He will go in the breakaway.'

People of delicate health, selfish dispositions, and coarse minds, can always bear the sufferings of others placidly.

I am here to serve. I am here to inspire. I am here to love. I am here to live my truth

One of the worst things sin did for man was to make him selfish, for selfishness cannot love.

If your actions are motivated by selfish interests rather than God, you are mortgaging tomorrow's joy.

The challenge and the energy running requires may be a selfish one, but it actually motivates me to be stronger in my relationships.

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

All of the things that the bible warns you of being: jealous, covetous, murderous, selfish, etc., that's kind of how humans are.

It's getting to the point where I am no fun anymore, I am sorry. / Sometimes it hurts so badly I must cry out loud, ' I am lonely.' / I am yours, you are mine, you are what you are, you make it hard.

Del Boy' is no more, I am not playing, I am not cutting corners or looking for the short cuts, I have realised I need to live the life of a professional if I am to achieve what I know I am capable of.

I am failing as a woman. I am failing as a feminist. To freely accept the feminist label would not be fair to good feminists. If I am, indeed, a feminist, I am a rather bad one. I am a mess of contradictions.

I am not my hair I am not this skin I am not your expectations, no I am not my hair I am not this skin I am the soul that lives within.

This is a speculating and selfish age; and to think 'money will answer all things,' is too much the characteristic of Americans.

Love based upon indulgence of animal passion, is at best a selfish affair, and likely to snap under the slightest strain.

Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.

It was selfish what I asked her to do, even if it wound up being the most unselfish thing I've ever done.

I am not politically correct. I am all about the facts, I am all about the truth and I am all about Godly pursuits and what this country was built on, and I am not apologetic about it.

Most female artists - to do what you have to do and to be as honest as you have to be, to be as selfish as you have to be, as tunnel-visioned as you have to be to make art, not entertainment - you can't compromise, really.

A man, if he be active and energetic, can hardly fail also, be he never so selfish, of benefiting the general public interest.

The whole brunt of the media and the government is to encourage people to be highly competitive and totally selfish and uncaring of others.

I pretty much started going more towards the singing route when I came out with the song 'Selfish.'

Any altruistic system is inherently unstable, because it is open to abuse by selfish individuals, ready to exploit it.

Monsieur, sit down; listen to me. I am not a heathen, I am not hard-hearted, I am not unchristian, I am not dangerous, as they tell you; I would not trouble your faith; you believe in God and Christ and the Bible, and so do I.

I think we all have a selfish gene which rises to the top, sometimes. But then we're also all capable of a sudden magnanimity.

Those who joined us for selfish personal reasons, for a career or other motives will be the ones to leave.

People have become so selfish that they no longer care for others, or anything other than their own welfare.

Selfish-gene theory tells us nothing about the value of interacting through language.

I'm selfish when it comes to work. I'm like, "Oh, that will be fun! I wanna do that!" I never think beyond my participation in a project.

I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US that thinks Americans are not yet selfish enough.

The trouble with selfish motives is that they harden into principles, and you end up sending your kids to war for them.

I am not possessive at all. In every relationship I have had, the girl has left me. And the fundamental complaint has been that I am self-contained. I am just comfortable with myself and am always on an adventure.

We must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering.

To be honest, I think I'd become a bit selfish with memories of my father. I wanted to hug them close to me.

Maybe I'm too selfish to just be a producer. Also, I feel like I have something to say that's interesting or unique.

You can't be selfish in this game. You've got to know, at the end of the day, that it's all about winning. And when you win, everybody looks good.

Self-deprecating or arrogant, it's all selfish. Hard as it is, life's better when you spend more time on the rest of the world

That's why charity work is very selfish at the same time, because it makes you feel good.

I am for God, I am the lover of God, I am loved by God, I am the servant of God, I am the servant of the servant of God, and I am the well-wishing instrument of God's love towards every living being, with all humility. The emergence of that realization is the greatest attainment in life.

When I do things with people it's not with the hopes of them coming back because that would be a selfish reason for me to do anything.

I feel it's selfish when you don't use your voice, because then you're just relishing the attention - you're not using it for good.

It is something of a miracle that individual selfish decisions (in a market economy) must lead to a collectively efficient outcome.