Top 1200 Selfish World Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Drug addicts, when they are in their addiction, are selfish.

Unconditional love. That’s what he wants to give her and what he wants from her. People should give without wanting anything in return. All other giving is selfish. But he is being selfish a little, isn’t he, by wanting her to love him in return? He hopes that she loves him in return. Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back? Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like oceans and clouds, an evaporating of seawater and a replenishing of rain?

I didn't breast-feed. I'm selfish.

Drugs are a very selfish thing.

Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless.

There are times where you have to be selfish.

Love is the most selfish of all the passions.

Men tend to be selfish.

I am a very selfish person.

Acting can be very selfish and all-consuming.

It is impossible to be both selfish and happy.

A selfish man is a thief.

Be not selfish in your doings: pass it on.

It is best to marry for purely selfish reasons.

It is wonderful how shy even liberal ministers generally are about trusting people with the plain truth concerning their religion. They want to veil it in a supernatural haze. They are very reluctant to part with the old idea that God has given to Jews and Christians a peculiar monopoly of truth. It is a selfish view of God's government of the world, and it is time that we knew enough to outgrow it.

I'm not a selfish person, I don't think.

I think I was a pretty selfish athlete.

The only selfish life is a timid one.

You can be selfish by being too unselfish at times.

The happiest is the man who is not at all selfish.

Patriotism is the opposite of selfish individualism.

And is it selfish of me to crave victory, or is it brave?

We are all selfish, scared and stupid.

You simply cannot give to the world all that you have to give to the world if you do not remain true to your own "selfish" desires. You have a unique set of precious values that can only be fulfilled by pursuing what drives you the most: your passions and dreams. Could Thomas Edison have tended to the downtrodden as Mother Teresa did? Could Albert Einstein have preached salvation as Martin Luther King Jr. did? Could Abraham Lincoln have built cars like Henry Ford? Always, the masses benefit from the individuals who insist on marching to the beat of their own drummer.

I'm not too selfish or unselfish.

You have to be selfish to be an actor.

There is no room for selfish behaviour at Bayern.

You're too damn selfish!

A lot of comedians are selfish.

Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless.

You know, I'm not a selfish guy.

The left think that this special place in the world, the United States of America, it just happened. It just is. And it's our responsibility, as those who are lucky and fortunate enough, to happen to have been born here. It is incumbent upon us to share that same luck and good fortune with everybody else. Otherwise we are mean, selfish, polarized, partisan, extremist, racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe, whatever.

Our true passions are selfish.

At present, man applies to nature but half his force. He works on the world with his understanding alone. He lives in it, and masters it by a penny-wisdom; and he that works most in it, is but a half-man, and whilst his arms are strong and his digestion good, his mind is imbruted, and he is a selfish savage.

If the Irish once find out that there are any circumstances in which they can get free government grants, we shall have a system of mendicancy [begging] such as the world never knew”. After a million had starved to death he stated “The great evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.

Be incredibly, ruthlessly selfish with your equity.

A lot of music comes from a selfish place.

I'm a selfish, little pig of a man.

We can use wealth, intelligence, education or health in harmony with our compassionate spiritual nature, or we can use them according to the selfish concerns of our particular egos. We have choices as human beings. We can be saints or we can be terrorists. We can be peaceful or we can be miserable. When we see everything in the world as God's sacred property, then we're seeing the spiritual potential, the spiritual substance, everywhere.

I don't believe I'm selfish in any way.

If you want to be wisely selfish, care for others

Philanthropy can have a very strong selfish component.

I'm not a selfish player; it's about our team.

Fighting, you have to be selfish.

I'm not a selfish person.

I'll do whatever I need to. I'm not selfish.

It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies.

An artist must be ruthlessly selfish.

I write from my life, my experience. I'm selfish that way.

I was always pretty selfish.

I have become the chief minister not with a selfish motive.

Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology.

There's nothing about me that's selfish.

It is of course evident that everything in one's religious life depends upon the sort of God one worships. The character of the worshiper must necessarily be molded by the character of the object worshipped. If it is a cruel and revengeful God, or a selfish and unjust God, the worshiper will be cruel, and revengeful, and selfish, and unjust, also. If it is a loving, tender, forgiving, unselfish God, the worshiper will be loving, and tender, and forgiving, and unselfish, as well.

All our acts, reasoned and unreasoned, are selfish

I'm just selfish. I have to be for what I do.

Strikers are egotists, selfish. We have to be.

My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you.

A Christian marriage is [not] one with no problems or even a marriage with fewer problems. (It may well mean more problems.) But it does mean a life in which two people are able to accept each other and love each other in the midst of problems and fears. It means a marriage in which selfish people can accept selfish people without constantly trying to change them -- and even accept themselves, because they realize personally that they have been accepted by Christ.

Yeah. Just keep the live feed going so that I can see it and pretend I’m there, too. (Tory) Yes, my queen. Anything else you’d like? (Geary) A million dollars and Brad Pitt. (Tory) You forgot world peace. (Geary) I’m feeling a bit selfish today. Teenage hormonal overdose, I think. Or just general excitement. (Tory)