Top 1200 Selfish Desire Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

A director is a very selfish person. For him, his film is like his baby.

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

I am selfish. I am cruel. My mate cannot be less than I.

My son's the most precious thing to me: He's changed me from being selfish to selfless.

Golf is so selfish - it's so much about how do we get better and get to the next level.

When fear sets in, you don't trust others and when you don't trust anyone then you become selfish.

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

Advertising is the place where the selfish interests of the manufacturer coincide with the interests of society.

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

The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government.

Heaven would be Hell in no time if every cruel, selfish, vicious soul went to Heaven.

To have serpentlike qualities devoid of dovelike qualities is to be passionless, mean, and selfish.

We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes. The situation that we hoped to change because it was intolerable becomes unimportant. We have not managed to surmount the obstacle, as we were absolutely determined to do, but life has taken us round it, led us past it, and then if we turn round to gaze at the remote past, we can barely catch sight of it, so imperceptible has it become.

You should sub a player out when you see a player not going full-speed or playing selfish basketball.

The Bible says somewhere that we are desperately selfish. I think we would have discovered that fact without the Bible.

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.

When a man and woman are successfully in love, their whole activity is energized and victorious. They walk better, their digestion improves, they think more clearly, their secret worries drop away, the world is fresh and interesting, and they can do more than they dreamed that they could do. In love of this kind sexual intimacy is not the dead end of desire as it is in romantic or promiscuous love, but periodic affirmation of the inward delight of desire pervading an active life.

The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.

To be honest, I'm selfish as an artist. I'm doing what I want to do and what I want to hear.

Every man has his own reason for every deed. Usually it is selfish.

The craziest, most selfish act is to commit suicide. When you kill yourself, you kill others.

When you're competing, you need to be selfish. You need to think of yourself first.

Some people are selfish in all of their relationships. Those people are called sociopaths.

She's an idiot. She's looking at life through a selfish, lusty haze.

I am very selfish when it comes to work, and I only care about work.

There's a side to you as an actor, a selfish side, that wants to go on and play different roles.

I didn't do this for other people; I did this for me. I fought for this right for me - does that sound selfish?

Donald Trump is appealing to the basest, the most selfish and the most literally un-American of instincts.

Reason tends to check selfish impulses and to grant the satisfaction of legitimate impulses in others.

I've grown into that more aggressive, more selfish basketball at times.

I'm not selfish before a fight or afterwards, but for the time of the fight itself, I have to think totally of myself.

The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we're so busy now.

Some critics accuse capitalism of being a selfish system, but the selfishness is not in capitalism - it is in human nature.

The selfish leader will attempt to lead others for their own gain and for the detriment of others.

Forgiveness, quite frankly, is the most selfish thing you can do. Because it is the greatest thing you can do for yourself.

You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.

Be careful of selfish motives. You can mistake them for principles and end up dying for them.

I'm not selfish. I am where I am because I have worked very hard and have always done my job.

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.

I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments. That's no contribution to society. [Tennis] was purely selfish; that was for me.

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

The abortionist I worked for, he's a very greedy man, a selfish man.

A selfish person can still love someone else, can't they? Even when they've hurt them and let them down.

If you're competing right, if you're doing it right, competition should be a very selfish pursuit.

I do think that it is one of the eternal questions about art, though - is all art intrinsically selfish?

Compassion brings fulfillment to the heart. Selfish desires simply agitate the heart.

I don't actually think 'The Selfish Gene' is a very good title. I think that's one of my worst titles.

In this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog.

The only thing I think about is helping the team, respecting all my team-mates, not being selfish.

What do you think? Who are these people who have depicted heaven as a playboy Club - who are these people? Starved, poor, who have missed their life - they are projecting their desires in heaven. In heaven there are rivers of wine... who are these people who are imagining rivers of wine? They must have missed here. And there are wish-fulfilling trees. You sit underneath them, desire, and the moment you desire, immediately it is fulfilled.

People do things with terrible motivations and those motivations are selfish and self-interested and financially driven.

My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant. The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence. I do not know that this higher knowledge amounts to anything more definite than a novel and grand surprise on a sudden revelation of the insufficiency of all that we called Knowledge before,—a discovery that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy.

Once you conquer your selfish self, all your darkness will change to light.

My son's the most precious thing to me; he's changed me from being selfish to selfless.

Sure love is cruel and selfish and totally obtuse-- at least, blinded by the light, young love is.

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

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

Guys that are playing in the last year of their contracts are playing for their livelihood and that tends to come off as selfish.

Selfish hedonism is not a pejorative. It is a description - an exactly accurate description of what is involved in homosexual relations.

When it's impossible, it's better to stoop to compromise, without resisting and without complaining. People who complain are selfish.