Quotes of: Selfish-people Keyword

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

The alternative to rule is not freedom but the unconstitutional (and often unconscious) tyranny of the most selfish member.

C.S. Lewis

Selfishness leads to nothingness. Generosity and benevolence leads to great reward,” he explained.

J.W. Lord

To be honest, I think I'd become a bit selfish with memories of my father. I wanted to hug them close to me.

Jennifer Grant

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

Jean-Paul Sartre

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

Cesare Pavese

As long as greed is the root of all evil, there will not be peace. Get rid of selfishness and greed too will disappear.

Zarina Bibi

Inquisitor Lorsen's thin lip curled. "There is truly nothing in you of what separates man from animal, is there? You are bereft of conscience. An utter absence of morality. You have no principle beyond the selfish." Cosca's face hardened as he leaned...

Red Country

Obviously, the choice between human selfishness and divine Selfishness is not about leaving or not leaving a relationship. More important are the day-to-day opportunities in the course of relationship. It is really the choice of living from the heart...

Joyce Vissell

The Paradoxical Commandments People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway. If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway. If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemi...

The Silent Revolution: Dynamic Leadership in the Student Council

It's a selfish habit. I never learn anything from listening to myself.

Flight Behavior

Selfish act is very tempting but it leaves a permanent dent on your character.

Rousing Cadence

Selfish— a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice.

George Eliot

Selfish genes actually explain altruistic individuals, and to me that's crystal-clear.

Richard Dawkins

I'm not a selfish actor. I believe that it's a team effort. You're not in a scene by yourself.

Taraji P. Henson

Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.

Lawana Blackwell

The ends you serve that are selfish will take you no further than yourself but the ends you serve that are for all, in common, will take you into eternity.

Marcus Garvey

Arrogance and selfishness are not the only reasons behind our loneliness, but most often we used to be alone because of them.

M.F. Moonzajer