Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Evert

To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost.

Dennis Prager

Yet, while producing increasingly selfish people, the mantra of the Left, and therefore of the universities and the media, has been for generations that capitalism and the free market, not the welfare state, produces selfish people.

Fred Funk

For selfish reasons, I really wish we were having a weak field, so I would have a better chance.

Eddie Van Halen

We make music for a living. Like I've always said, if you like what you're doing, you're halfway there; if someone else likes it, that's even better. If they don't like it, at least you like it. Not to be selfish, but you kind of have to be.

Aaron Kampman

What you learn about yourself is that you continue to see that you're selfish. It's so easy, in our Laodicean culture with all the different things that grab our minds that aren't of eternal value, to let those tentacles wrap themselves around your heart. That's one of the reasons why we love going overseas. It helps us to break free of those things. We've been on all of these trips, but it's easy to slide back into the selfishness of life. That's what we find out about ourselves.

Alan Cohen

It is not selfish to be happy. It is your highest purpose. Your joy is the greatest contribution you can make to life on the planet. A heart at peace with its owner blesses everyone it touches.

Alan Cohen

It is not selfish or narcissistic to love yourself. It is your first and foremost responsibility.

Phil McGraw

The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we're so busy now.

Ludwig von Mises

Under a socialist mode of production all personal incentives which selfishness provides under capitalism are removed, and a premium is put upon laziness and negligence. Whereas in a capitalist society selfishness incites everyone to the utmost diligence, in a socialist society it makes for inertia and laxity.

Alan Moore

If we loved Steve Aylett, really loved him in the way that he deserves, a selfless love that genuinely wanted nothing save his happiness and comfort, we'd lobotomise him.

Andy Stanley

Selfless, generous, compassionate living is unassailable.

Mike Doody

The willingness to volunteer is a selfless act.

Michelle Sheridan

It's all about service to others. It's really a selfless day.

Billy Donovan

They've been totally selfless and they've been all about the team and they've been all about winning.

Mortimer Adler

Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.

Mahatma Gandhi

Ahimsa must express itself through acts of selfless service of the masses.

Mahatma Gandhi

Selfless action is a source of strength.

Sylvia Plath

I do not love; I do not love anybody except myself. That is a rather shocking thing to admit.

Chris Evans

I'm not that great with press sometimes.

Diane Kruger

I feel as if sometimes women can't deal with what's going on and they have no one around who actually understands.

Dennis Prager

It is sometimes rational to do what is wrong, and sometimes irrational to do what is right

Dean Kamen

Sometimes we crash and burn. It's better to do it in private.

Alan Cohen

Sometimes when things seem to be going wrong, they are going right for reasons you are yet to understand.

Charles de Lint

There's more to life than just surviving . . . but . . . sometimes just surviving is all you get

Charles Stewart Parnell

Do what is beyond your strength even should you fail sometimes.

David D. Burns

You're not a bad person. But you sometimes do bad things. You know what that makes you? Human.

Cesar Romero

Sometimes, I wonder what I'm doing here.