Quotes of: Being-selfish Keyword

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

William Makepeace Thackeray

Millennials are often portrayed as apathetic, disinterested, tuned out and selfish. None of those adjectives describe the Millennials I've been privileged to meet and work with.

Chelsea Clinton

If there were more temple work done in the Church, there would be less of selfishness, less of contention, less of demeaning others.

Gordon B. Hinckley

The modeling world – and the world at large – is a pretty cruel place. It’s up to you to decide whether or not that turns you into a cruel person as well. Are you going to be mean and selfish because some of the people around you are, or are yo...

I'm Just Here for the Free Scrutiny: One Model's Tale of Insanity and Inanity in the Wonderful World of Fashion

I do not think men are good at all. I have seen enough to know that humans are a wicked race from their very birth. Selfishness defines us. Greed and lust motivate us. And even the best man who ever lived would lie to preserve his own life or beliefs...

The Scion of Abacus, Part 4

This love of which I speak is slow to lose patience - it looks for a way of being constructive. Love is not possessive. Love is not anxious to impress nor does it cherish inflated ideas of its own ideas. Love has good manners and does not pursue self...

Let Me Be a Woman

No matter which way you dice it, self-preservation is selfish.

Crossing Lines

In selfish men caution is as secure an armour for their foes as for themselves.

Dracula

Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect

Indiana

Selfish Apologies Aren’t Apologies at All

Why Leadership Sucks: Fundamentals of Level 5 Leadership and Servant Leadership

Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man is essentially a selfish creature. The differences in the degree with which this developed are infinite.

Samuel Freeman Miller

Imagining that you are deep and complex, but others are simple, is one of the primary signs of malignant selfishness.

Stefan Molyneux

Let us reject violence and selfishness which could destroy our country's unity.

Mwai Kibaki

I have freedom. But freedom means total selfishness. It means nobody cares much what you do.

Lynn Barber

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

Anne Sullivan

I've gotten very good at detaching whenever I have to go away for three months, which I realize is hard on friends and kind of selfish.

Ashley Greene

We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others.

Mortimer Adler

I like working with kids because I enjoy seeing the looks on their faces and, it's kind of selfish, I want a future audience.

Joshua Bell

My work requires acting at its most committed - it demands actors of enormous resilience, but also intelligence and wit. It doesn't work for narcissistic or selfish actors.

Mike Leigh

Today many of these selfish politicians are preying on the nation itself – (belching corruption and farting discontent!)

Faraaz Kazi