Top 1200 I Am Selfish Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

I think we identify ourselves by labels or things that we are able to do: I am this. I am a good cook. I am a good mother. I am a good this. I am a good doctor. I am a good lawyer. When you can’t do those things anymore, you wonder where your identity is.

Every selfish man, strangely enough, becomes a self slayer

Sharing bad news with strangers is most certainly a selfish act.

I look back on my life and have to face the fact that I have been narcissistic and selfish.

It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

Man is the most dangerous, destructive, selfish, and unethical animal on earth.

I am not a follower of Monet. I am not an admirer or follower of De Kooning. I am not an action painter. I am not an abstract expressionist. I am not younger or older. I will not take my hat off to any other artist living or dead in all the world. I know this.

People are generally irrational, unreasonable and selfish. They deserve to be loved, anyway.

When Stuart passed away, I was so young and so selfish about living and having fun.

Where all are selfish, the sage is no better than the fool, and only rather more dangerous.

I am sure I lost out on a few million or more in money but I am happy with the team that I am on and the quarterback that I am with.

I think I'm still figuring out how to be a little less selfish.

Selfish genes actually explain altruistic individuals, and to me that's crystal-clear.

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

All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery.

I do not think it is selfish to want to donate a kidney "only" to family members.

To be an Olympian is not flattering for any partner that's with you. It's a really selfish part of your life.

I hate the standard of stupid and selfish driving we have in this country. We are the worst I've come across.

In proportion as a man is selfish, so far has he receded from the motive which constitutes virtue.

We will not go out there and make negative music for selfish gain.

It looks like a waste of life, that mowing down of our best years by a relentless passion which itself falls dead on the top of them. But it is not so. Every year I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence which will risk nothing, and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well. No one ever yet was the poorer in the long run for having once in a lifetime 'let out all the length of the reins.'

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

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

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

You have this one life. If you keep being selfish and unkind, it's going to come back to you.

Artists are the worst [people]. They are selfish, self-centred; they don't care what happens.

I love the fact that people love my work, and they love me as who I am. I think I am pretty blessed, and I am glad I am in this position, and I am really happy about that.

We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.

A dictator keeps control and leads. A tyrant is someone selfish who destroys.

I suppose I've been selfish in the past and put my career first. But priorities change.

The definition of an artist, for me, is someone who is quite selfish about their creativity.

Being single isn't all that bad, as you can be selfish and focus on yourself and your career.

Photographs put time into such a perspective. They humble us and our selfish memories.

Human beings are endowed by nature with both selfish and unselfish impulses.

Learning to not be selfish is what has changed in me the most since being married.

It needs some intelligence to be truly selfish. The unintelligent can only be self-righteous.

I urge you all, fervently I urge you, to state unto the universe, unto the multiverse: I AM, I AM, I AM! I am life. I am God. I AM. As you state the knowingness within your breast, you raise your frequency. The vibration of I AM will begin to pulsate within you.

I am not a boy, not a girl, I am not gay, not straight, I am not a drag queen, not a transsexual - I am just me, Jackie.

Can a selfish egocentric jealous and unimaginative female write a damn thing worthwhile?

If you look at the people in Hollywood who are heavy partiers, they're selfish, self-centered and egotistical.

Men ... are so conservative, so selfish, so boresome, and ... they are so ugly, and ... they are gullible, anybody can convince them.

Marriage takes your whole heart; selfish people can't pull it off.

The customer is a remarkably selfish person: He takes the relationship to where the execution is in his favor.

Banksy's a very selfish, driven, paranoid artist. For good reasons.

.. the voice of nature and experience seems plainly to oppose the selfish theory.

Socialism is the ideal state, but it can never be achieved while man is so selfish.

Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.

I'm just a totally selfish worker bee creating my little mini projects.

I have to switch my own mentality into a winning mode, not playing for myself or trying to be selfish.

Evil isn't a cosmological riddle, only just selfish human behavior.

Beneath a mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom.

Marriage is just an elaborate game that allows two selfish people to periodically feel that they're not.

The truly changed, truly converted, truly Christian heart can say with John Newton, “I am not what I ought to be. I am not what I wish to be. I am not what I hope to be. Yet I can truly say, I am not what I once was. By the grace of God, I am what I am.

What selfish seeds I plant along the way, black harvest today.

I think it's selfish to go out partying all the time, especially if you have little ones in your family.

People think if you look after yourself you're being selfish, you know.

It is not selfish or narcissistic to love yourself. It is your first and foremost responsibility.

Man is essentially a selfish creature. The differences in the degree with which this developed are infinite.

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

Now is the one time in my life I can be 100% selfish. I'm not married; I don't have kids; I can focus on my career.