Quotes of: Being-selfish Keyword

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

Lord Byron

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

James Woods

And, one thing I definitely enjoyed personally, from a selfish point of view, was exploration and going to places that I had never been to before and learning, you know, meeting the people and getting to know, new sights and sounds, etc.

Duane G. Carey

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

Helen Keller

Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.

Harry S. Truman

I'm a really selfish person. But I would do anything for my friends.

Jami Attenberg

The love of money is the root of all evil, therefore selfishness must be the seed.

M.D. Birmingham

Be selfish; love yourself before loving anyone else.

Debasish Mridha

I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness.

Gary Chapman

Undoubtedly there are, in connection with each of these things, cases of fraud, swindling, and other financial crimes; that is to say, the greed and selfishness of men are perpetual.

William Graham Sumner

There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.

John Gunther

The secret is...good and evil are a myth. There is only the selfish, selfless, and those in between.

Life

God,” she butted her head into his chest, “I'm so angry with myself.” “What? Why?” “Because … this is my mess I dragged you into, and you don't deserve any of it, and I feel like I'm ruining you with every single thing I say, and…” ...

Broken Lights

Bilbo: [enigmatically] You're a good lad, Frodo. I'm very selfish, you know. Yes, I am. Very selfish. I don't know why I took you in after your mother and father died but it wasn't out of charity. I think it was because... of all my numerous relation...

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

Camino Real

...children are at heart selfish, and reasonably so, for they are programmed for survival.

The Child in Time

...and as a result yet today we are unable to distinguish between sympathy and selfishness.

The Cavalier

Despair is a wholly selfish response to fortune’s slings and arrows.

The Final Descent

With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone.

Buddha

People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

The successful are those who can be saved from their own selfishness.

Major Themes of the Qur'an