Top 1200 Selfish Interest Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

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

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

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

It's not a selfish desire, growing a beard, but maybe I need to not have the beard, and it'll bring us more wins.

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

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

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

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

Your unhappiness doesn't help anyone else - and in fact, as I mentioned in another answer, happy people are more altruistically inclined. So happiness is not a selfish goal.

I would have been a terrible mother because I'm basically a very selfish human being. Not that that has stopped most people going off and having children.

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

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

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

We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment.

He is altogether selfish, she thought in some surprise, the only man I have ever sat and talked to alone, and I am impatient; he is simply not very interesting.

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

For how imperiously, how coolly, in disregard of all one’s feelings, does the hard, cold, uninteresting course of daily realities move on! Still we must eat, and drink, and sleep, and wake again, - still bargain, buy, sell, ask and answer questions, - pursue, in short, a thousand shadows, though all interest in them be over; the cold, mechanical habit of living remaining, after all vital interest in it has fled.

Basketball can serve as a kind of metaphor for ultimate cooperation. It is a sport where success, as symbolized by the championship, requires that the dictates of community prevail over selfish impulses.

Love is a virtue; it grows stronger and purer and less selfish by applying it to what it loathes; but theft is a vice involving the slave-idea that one's neighbor is superior to oneself.

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

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

I can't say I've seen any formalized white supremacy grow. I was a selfish leader and never trained anybody to train over my group. It scattered when I left.

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

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

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

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

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

Place three individuals in a situation wherein the interest of each depends on the voice of the others, and give to two of them an interest opposed to the rights of the third. Will the latter be secure? The prudence of every man would shun the danger. The rules & forms of justice suppose & guard against it. Will two thousand in a like situation be less likely to encroach on the rights of one thousand?

I am not interested in dry economic socialism. We are fighting against misery, but we are also fighting against alienation. One of the fundamental objectives of Marxism is to remove interest, the factor of individual interest, and gain, from people's psychological motivations. Marx was preoccupied both with economic factors and with their repercussions on the spirit. If communism isn't interested in this too, it may be a method of distributing goods, but it will never be a revolutionary way of life.

Even if Trump means well, his schemes tend to be blunt, selfish, and short-sighted rather than nuanced, empathetic, and thought through.

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

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

There are many selfish people who are extremely original, then they take those pure ideas and use them to raise themselves up, that is an insincere move.

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

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

My occupation has been a great deal with David Foster Wallace, and he didn't manage it, and he was very much looking for something that isn't totally selfish, and finding meaning. It's a struggle.

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

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

Ridicule, which chiefly arises from pride, a selfish passion, is but at best a gross pleasure, too rough an entertainment for those who are highly polished and refined.

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

What passes for love is imperfect knowledge. Not knowing, initially, allows faithlessness to dress up as its opposite; casts the inarticulate as enigmatic, the selfish as forgetful, the angry as impassioned.

Writing is a cop-out. An excuse to live perpetually in fantasy land, where you can create, direct and watch the products of your own head. Very selfish.

Major actions by courageous and wise men will be necessary to avoid our continuing to blunder into the space age like unenlightened and selfish idiots.

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

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

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

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

Where art and business intersect is a challenging hurdle for a lot of people, reconciling the fact that not everyone is going to make it in the same way. Yeah, you have to be a little selfish, probably.

If the people are to be the final tribunal then they must vote for what is right rather than according to their own selfish interests, else we are treading the path of danger.

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

I want to create a life that is just healthy and peaceful - an enclave, really, of retreat. It's not helpful for the big picture. It's totally selfish to run away like that.

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

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

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 think what's most fun is playing someone who's sort of selfish and in a lot of ways unlikeable, but there's this really big heart underneath it that you get little glimpses of.

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

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.

Survival," I said softly. "It's selfish, and it's dark, and we've always been a species willing to do anything to satisfy our needs. Individuals have morals. Mobs have appetites.

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

The primary occupational hazard of blogging is this: it's easier when you yourself take on some of the traits of insanity. It's a job that requires the doer to be selfish, self-absorbed, and superficial.