Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas A. Edison

The endeavor to change universal power by selfish supplication I do not believe in.

Shia LaBeouf

I'm just selfish. I have to be for what I do.

Taraji P. Henson

I'm not a selfish actor. I believe that it's a team effort. You're not in a scene by yourself.

Swami Vivekananda

That which is selfish is immoral, and that which is unselfish is moral.

Swami Vivekananda

Unselfishness is God. One may live on a throne, in a golden palace, and be perfectly unselfish; and then he is in God. Another may live in a hut and wear rags, and have nothing in the world; yet, if he is selfish, he is intensely merged in the world.

Tony Blair

The only society that works today is also one founded on mutual respect, on a recognition that we have a responsibility collectively and individually, to help each other on the basis of each other's equal worth. A selfish society is a contradiction in terms.

Simone Elkeles

I feel so selfish, because I want the best of both worlds. I want to keep the image I've worked so hard to create.

Simone de Beauvoir

I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.

Simon Sinek

Selfish is easy. It's sharing that takes courage.

Simon Sinek

Putting yourself first is not selfish. Quite the opposite. You must put your happiness and health first before you can be of help to anyone else.

Thomas Merton

What is 'grace'? It is God's own life, shared by us. God's life is love. Deus caritas est. By grace we are able to share in the infinitely selfless love of Him Who is such pure actuality that He needs nothing and therefore cannot conceivably exploit anything for selfish ends. Indeed, outside of Him there is nothing, and whatever exists exists by His free gift of its being, so that one of the notions that is absolutely contradictory to the perfection of God is selfishness.

Thomas Merton

Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: for it is perhaps your own coldness and avarice and mediocrity and materialism and selfishness that have chilled his faith.

Tony Dorsett

Tragedies make you realize how selfish you are.

Tom Waits

I admit that I ain't no angel, I admit that I ain't no saint-- I'm selfish and I'm cruel and I'm blind. If I exorcise my devils, well my angels may leave too. When they leave they're so hard to find...

Stephen Hawking

Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change the environment for good or ill. But our genetic code still carries the selfish and aggressive instincts that were of survival advantage in the past. It will be difficult enough to avoid disaster in the next hundred years, let alone the next thousand or million. Our only chance of long term survival, is not to remain inward looking on planet Earth, but to spread out into space.

Stendhal

Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.

Stendhal

Our true passions are selfish.

Shirley Jackson

He is altogether selfish, she thought in some surprise, the only man I have ever sat and talked to alone, and I am impatient; he is simply not very interesting.

Rick Riordan

Chaos is impatient. It's random. And above all it's selfish. It tears down everything just for the sake of change, feeding on itself in constant hunger. But Chaos can also be appealing. It tempts you to believe that nothing matters except what you want.

Swami Vivekananda

The happiest is the man who is not at all selfish.

Swami Vivekananda

Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice.

Robert A. Heinlein

The commonest weakness of our race is our ability to rationalize our most selfish purposes.

Rick Allen

Before my accident I was a little too... selfish and self-absorbed and for me, to now be at the place where I can kinda give back and inspire people. I'm blessed. I'm really blessed.

Thomas Szasz

It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish.

Viggo Mortensen

I played Lucifer once, which is sort of a difficult character to research. I thought to myself, "We all have the potential to be selfish, to be cruel - at least to think evil thoughts, even if we don't ever act out on them. Even if we don't ever think we behave badly, we probably do more than we realize."

Vic Fuentes

I don't see anything wrong with telling someone that you are selfish with their love and that you can't stand sharing them with anyone else.

Veronica Roth

And is it selfish of me to crave victory, or is it brave?

Veronica Roth

I am selfish. I am brave.

Thucydides

Some legislators only wish to vengeance against a particular enemy. Others only look out for themselves. They devote very little time on the consideration of any public issue. They think that no harm will come from their neglect. They act as if it is always the business of somebody else to look after this or that. When this selfish notion is entertained by all, the commonwealth slowly begins to decay.

Thomas Hughes

Gambling makes boys selfish and cruel as well as men.

Rumi

Once you conquer your selfish self, all your darkness will change to light.

Tom Peters

The selfish leader will attempt to lead others for their own gain and for the detriment of others.

Steven Pressfield

For what can be more noble than to slay oneself? Not literally. Not with a blade in the guts. But to extinguish the selfish self within, that part which looks only to its own preservation, to save its own skin. That, I saw, was the victory you Spartans had gained over yourselves. That was the glue. It was what you had learned and it made me stay, to learn it too.