Quotes About Selfish

Coming from a great college program like F.S.U., everybody had one common goal, and that was to win. You get into the minor leagues, and whether it's right or wrong, it's a selfish game.

Your worldly failure, if you have failed, is to your credit rather than to your blame. Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish man. The devoted fail.

He was a selfish customer, always thinking less of what he was going to do than of what he was going to gain by his doings.

they are still satisfied with the old clichés about "life-denying Buddhism," "selfish navel-gazing," and Nirvana as a sort of drugged trance.

Mostly, she tried to get on with her life, even as she carried around her loss and her horror. The lesson she took from River's death was to be more selfish: since life is fleeting, don't waste it with the wrong people.

Magic is that paganistic reversal of the process of religion, in which man, instead of letting himself be used by God for the divine purpose, drags down his god to the level of a tool, which he uses for his own selfish purpose.

Not having children is seen as supremely selfish, as though the people having children were selflessly sacrificing themselves in a valiant attempt to ensure the survival of our endangered species and fill up this vast and underpopulated island of ours.

Do not give alms promiscuously. Select the unworthy poor and make them happy. To give to the deserving is a duty, but to help the improvident, drinking class is clear generosity, so that the donor has a right to be warmed by a selfish pride and count on a most flattering obituary.

All gods feed on suffering. Without it, there are no prayers or offerings. Mankind is selfish. They give only when they have to. If this world was idyllic and life was just, what need would there be for gods?

War itself requires no particular motivation, but appears to be ingrained in human nature and is even valued as something noble; indeed, the desire for glory inspires men to it, even independently of selfish motives.

I only care about me and about why I don't care about anybody else.

It's them that takes advantage that gets advantage i' this world.

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.

Remember,' she'd tell her staff, 'every customer wants to feel like a princess, and princesses are selfish and overbearing.

Children are so egocentric - they want to watch their lives, and not yours.

The idealism of the left is a very selfish idealism. In their war against 'the rich' and big business, they don't care how much collateral damage there is to workers who end up end up unemployed.

Both were aware that wealth is a relative thing, and that the positively rich are not those who have the largest possessions but those who have the fewest vain or selfish desires to gratify.

Because I'm selfish. I'm a coward. I'm the kind of girl who, when she might actually be of use, would run to stay alive and leave those who couldn't follow to suffer and die.

Sometimes in life, you have to make a selfish decision and do what's best for you.

Rocknroll is a selfish business because youre always thinking about the tour, the show, promotion and writing new albums. Your head is somewhere else, but Ive learnt to not let it be all-consuming. You want time with your family.

Be selfish enough to have self love, self worth and self respect.

What a selfish boy you are. You wished for the world and she could only give you the skies.

There is no burden in love, because love is always selfish

Gentleness is akin to divinity. Perhaps no quality is so far removed from all that is coarse, brutal and selfish as gentleness, so that when one is becoming gentle, he is becoming divine.