Quotes about selfish
selfish here-i-am people
Here I am going to say something which may come as a bit of a shock. God doesn't necessarily want us to be happy. He wants us to be lovable. Worthy of love. Able to be loved by Him. We don't start off being all that lovable, if we're honest. What makes people hard to love? Isn't it what is commonly called selfishness? Selfish people are hard to love because so little love comes out of them. William Nicholson
selfish way
You do have to be fairly selfish when you have a gift. You cannot afford to let too many outside things get in the way Sarah Brightman
selfish insecure scared
We're connected, as women. It's like a spiderweb. If one part of that web vibrates, if there's trouble, we all know it, but most of the time we're just too scared, or selfish, or insecure to help. But if we don't help each other, who will? Sarah Addison Allen
selfish sleep creative
Deliberately seeking solitude-quality time spent away from family and friends-may seem selfish. It is not. Solitude is as necessary for our creative spirits to develop and flourish as are sleep and food for our bodies to survive. Sarah Ban Breathnach
selfish progress decay
National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice. Samuel Smiles
selfish blow thinking
When the switch fell I could feel it upon my flesh; when it welted and ridged it was my blood that ran, and I would think with each blow of the switch: Now you are aware of me! Now I am something in your secret and selfish life, who have marked your blood with my own for ever and ever. William Faulkner
selfish educational today
The education system today makes and educated person selfish. It makes that person a slave to the senses and as a consequence the person forgets their own divine nature. Sai Baba
selfishness social social-good
No universal selfishness can bring social good to all, W. E. B. Du Bois
selfish purpose watches
So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish, shrewd plodders, full of distrust and sneers.
selfish
I am very selfish, really. I lived for love. Zadie Smith
selfish want environment
We're a part of nature. As we destroy nature, we destroy ourselves. It's a selfish thing to want to protect nature. Yvon Chouinard
selfish race curse
Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race. William E. Gladstone
selfish fool loose-women
I prefer a loose woman to a selfish one and a wanton to a fool. W. Somerset Maugham
selfish men suffering-of-others
I knew that suffering did not enoble; it degraded. It made men selfish, petty and suspicious. It absorbed them in small things...it made them less than men; and I wrote ferociously that we learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
selfish empathy survival
When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival. Yann Martel
selfish selfishness next
Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish. William Makepeace Thackeray