Quotes of: Selfish-people Keyword

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?...

Reunion

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live.

The Soul of Man Under Socialism

Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.

Wanda

People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. It's very selfish, but it's understandable.

Mick Jagger

Adversity relieves people of vanity and egotism. It discourages selfishness by proving that no one can succeed without the cooperation of others.

Napoleon Hill

I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.

Charles Dudley Warner

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.

Pope John Paul II

The reason I play music is to touch people - for selfish reasons, as well. It feels good to make someone else feel something, whether it's a kiss, a painting, good idea or it's a song.

Dave Matthews

For myself, suffering doesnt make me a good person; it makes me selfish. Why do we think that people who have less should find it edifying?

Katherine Boo

The real 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.

Charles Trevelyan

There are many selfish people who are extremely original, then they take those pure ideas and use them to raise themselves up, that is an insincere move.

Daniel Smith

It is just as foolish to complain that people are selfish and treacherous as it is to complain that the magnetic field does not increase unless the electric field has a curl. Both are laws of nature.

John von Neumann

I want to show the world that you do have some artists that are ready to go to the next level, and instead of being selfish with their career they'll open up the door to other people. I'm in a position to open up the door to help other people do what...

Raekwon

I know that sounds selfish, but you have to look at what it's doing to you personally - are you frustrated because of the way people perceive you, or are you happy enough about the things you've realized about yourself that you can tolerate the way p...

Shannon Hoon

I was an abusive, selfish, needy, angry asshole. Now I'm just kind of selfish, a little less angry, occasionally needy, with flights of asshole. I've grown.

Attempting Normal

What shall it profit a male if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his immortal genes?

The Selfish Gene

God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness and wake us up to the presence of others in this world, and that mechanism is called suffering.

Shadowlands

Romantic love is the most selfish of all emotions.

Selfish Path to Romance: How to Love With Passion & Reason, Inspired by Ayn Rand

When unlimited and unrestricted by individual rights a government is men's deadliest enemy.

The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism

We can achieve the fullest measure of life by living it for others.

Your Life Isn't for You: A Selfish Person's Guide to Being Selfless

In lifting another person, we also lift ourselves.

Your Life Isn't for You: A Selfish Person's Guide to Being Selfless