Top 1200 Selfish Men Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I don't like the women who stand up for the empowerment of women at the expense of men. They try to demonize men, and they try to suggest men all want to keep us down, which is one of the reasons why I don't like that label 'feminist.'

No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times.

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

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

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

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 a modern world where a majority of women say, 'I don't need you, I've got my money, I've got my stuff,' I say, 'I desperately need men.' My whole album is a tribute to men. It takes a man in me to tell you that I'm on my knees for men.

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

It was this feminine conspiracy which made Southern society so pleasant. Women knew that a land where men were contented, uncontradicted ans safe in possession of unpunctured vanity was likely to be a very pleasant place for women to live. So, from the cradle to the grave, women strove to make men pleased with themselves, and the satisfied men repaid lavishly with gallantry and adoration. In fact, men willingly gave ladies everything in the world except credit for having intelligence.

Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.

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.

Stricken by a guilty conscience, some men will say that I speak with excessive temerity about all men in general. They are greatly mistaken. If they behave justly, they will be protected from my attacks and those of others. I separate the just from the wicked (who are the subject of my discourse), since not all men are bad and not all women are good.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Men are allowed to age. Men are allowed to gain weight. Men are allowed to be quirky looking.

THERE are no wise few; for in all men rages the folly of the Fall. Take your strongest, happiest, handsomest, best born, best bred, best instructed men on earth and give them special power for half an hour and because they are men they will begin to [perform] badly.

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.

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

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

There's very little advice in men's magazines, because men don't think there's a lot they don't know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, 'I know what I'm doing, just show me somebody naked.'

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

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

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.

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

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

Men don't like nobility in woman. Not any men. I suppose it is because the men like to have the copyrights on nobility -- if there is going to be anything like that in a relationship.

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

Why are women wearing perfumes that smell like flowers to attract men? Men don't like flowers. I have a great idea for a scent that will attract men - how about "New Car Interior"?

Feminism is a belief that although women and men are inherently of equal worth, most societies privilege men as a group. As a result, social movements are necessary to achieve political equality between women and men, with the understanding that gender always intersects with other social hierarchies.

During the long ages of class rule, which are just beginning to cease, only one form of sovereignty has been assigned to all men--that, namely, over all women. Upon these feeble and inferior companions all men were permitted to avenge the indignities they suffered from so many men to whom they were forced to submit.

When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions.

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

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

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

Seems to me the basic conflict between men and women, sexually, is that men are like firemen. To men, sex is an emergency, and no matter what we're doing we can be ready in two minutes. Women, on the other hand, are like fire. They're very exciting, but the conditions have to be exactly right for it to occur.

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

That men, in reality, did not have friends in other men. That the fellowship of men, despite its joyous banter, old memories of exaggerated mischief and the altruism of sharing pornography, was actually a farcical fellowship. Because what a man really wanted was to be bigger than his friends.

Men are men. I've been married to my husband for eight years now; we've been together for 16 years. And I've found that all I have to do is keep him fed and loved, and he's the happiest person. Men just want to be full, watching their basketball game and enjoy some hugs and kisses.

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

But Quantrill and his men were no more bandits than the men on the other side. I've been to reunions of Quantrill's men two or three times. All they were trying to do was protect the property on the Missouri side of the line.