Quotes About Selfish

The best of my essence is shown to those who value my energy and appreciate my love, some would call it selfish, I call it selective.

Cats are greedy, whereas I merely want all the scraps.

But then a counter-sect arose, embracing persons who thought they believed in Darwin's novel theory. What they actually believed in was Reformed Darwinism, a religious and social theory combining 'survival of the fittest' with 'Devil take the hindmost'. The important thing was to be a survivor. Take care of your tribe and your territory. Be selfish. God helps those who help themselves.

She has always seemed to me the epitome of womankind: coldly suspicious, politely ill-tempered, and narrowly selfish.

You were selfish. It was all about Emily. You hung around only as long as it suited you, then you ran. Amelia's words haunted me, because they so related to what was happening right now with my marriage and my job. As revived as I had felt leaving the cats, I was suddenly

Egotism -- usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.

I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy, and driven.

I am being selfish here by saying this, but I believe 'Barfi!' helped me the most. It got me recognition and respect.

I never heard of her loving anybody but herself, and I do not think she could have managed that if she had not somehow got used to herself.

Happiness, so they say, makes one selfish... Alas! this happiness that is in store for some to the detriment of others must make one so, indeed. O my God! Shared happiness, that which one would find by working for the happiness of one's fellow men, would make man as great as his destiny on earth, as good as yourself!

I am selfish, father? Because I will not become the thing I despise? And narrow, Philips, to despise what you do not know. I am to be a painted popinjay! I tell you, sir, Cleone may take me as I am! Or leave you as you are, said Sir Maurice gently.

Well, she had said him nay: that had been of instinct, because she loved him, and it was not in a lover's part to take the selfish course.

A man's sentiments are generally just and right, while it is second selfish thought which makes him trim and adopt some other view. The best reforms are worked out when sentiment operates, as it does in women, with the indignation of righteousness.

I'm just a totally selfish worker bee creating my little mini projects.

Going out at night and having a fabulous social life takes a lot out of you, and I don't know if I have that much to give, honestly. I would rather give that time to my kids or spend that time reading a book or watching a film. I am selfish and lazy.

And to be honest, most actors are incredibly solipsistic.

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

Doing something for yourself doesn't make you selfish. My students tell me it's called self-care.

A story has to be a good date, because the reader can stop at any time. Remember, readers are selfish and have no compulsion to be decent about anything.

[Children] would have messed up my apartment. In the main, they are ungrateful. They would have siphoned too much time away from the writing of my precious books.

I think it's selfish to go out partying all the time, especially if you have little ones in your family.

even a cursory glance at history", wrote Arthur Koestler, "should convince one that individual crimes committed for selfish motives play a quite insignificant part in the human tragedy, compared to the numbers massacred in unselfish loyalty to one's tribe, nation, dynasty, church, or political ideology. . .

Self-care is never selfish, but it may feel that way when you live a frenzied life.

You have been called selfish for the courage of acting on your own judgement and bearing sole responsibility for your own life. You have been called arrogant for your independent mind. You have been called cruel for your unyielding integrity. You have been calle anti social for the vision that made you venture upon undiscovered roads.