Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Marley

Be not selfish in your doings: pass it on.

Bill Walton

Never forget - happiness ends when selfishness begins.

Chelsea Clinton

Millennials are often portrayed as apathetic, disinterested, tuned out and selfish. None of those adjectives describe the Millennials I've been privileged to meet and work with.

Charley Reese

If you look at Washington, you see permanently camped on the banks of the Potomac spread around in concentric circles an army representing thousands of selfish interests. The sole purpose of their presence is to plunder, by hook or crook, the public treasury for the benefit of their particular people or corporations.

Aisha Tyler

Marriage is a mystery and part of it is just being kind to each other, not being selfish.

Ai Weiwei

Artists are the worst [people]. They are selfish, self-centred; they don't care what happens.

Benjamin Spock

A human being is happiest and most successful when dedicated to a cause outside his own individual, selfish satisfaction.

Carol Shields

So this is where the years of maturity deliver us - to this needy, selfish, unwieldy wish to be somebody else's first and primal other.

Catherynne M. Valente

I am selfish. I am cruel. My mate cannot be less than I.

Craig Biggio

I'm not greedy, I'm not selfish I just wanted to get to a World Series one time,

They are not selfish in the least bit; they're just very team-oriented.

Ashley Greene

I've gotten very good at detaching whenever I have to go away for three months, which I realize is hard on friends and kind of selfish.

Berthold Auerbach

All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent.

Dr. Seuss

If you don't like me, remember it's mind over matter. I don't mind, and you don't matter.

Donald Miller

The trouble with deep belief is that it costs something And there is something inside me, some selfish beast of a subtle thing that doesn't like the truth at all because it carries responsibility, and if I actually believe these things I have to do something about them. It is so, so cumbersome to believe anything. And it isn't cool.

Dalai Lama

If one's cause is supported by sound reasoning, there is no point in using violence. It is those who have no motive other than selfish desire and who cannot achieve their goal through logical reasoning who rely on force.

Dalai Lama

We can't be useful to ourselves unless we're useful to others .... Anyone concerned only by his own well-being will suffer eventually. Anyone concerned with the well-being of others takes care of himself without even thinking about it. Even if we decide to remain selfish. let us be intelligently selfish - let us help others.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life.

Jack Kevorkian

I didn't do this for other people; I did this for me. I fought for this right for me - does that sound selfish?

J. B. Smoove

A lot of comedians are selfish.

J. C. Ryle

Go to the cross of Christ, all you that want to be delivered from the power of selfishness.

Harry Belafonte

I think [G.W.] Bush has a very selfish, arrogant point of view. I think he is interested in power, I think he believes his truth is the only truth, and that he will do what he wants to do despite the people.

Graeme Simsion

I watched as Humphrey Bogart’s character used beans as a metaphor for the relative unimportance in the wider world of his relationship with Ingrid Bergman’s character, and chose logic and decency ahead of his selfish emotional desires. The quandary and resulting decision made for an engrossing film. But this was not what people cried about. They were in love and could not be together. I repeated this statement to myself, trying to force an emotional reaction. I couldn’t. I didn’t care. I had enough problems of my own.

Gwen Stefani

To write an album takes so much focus and selfish time, to just write and think about your life. For me. Maybe not for other people.

Gwen Stefani

It takes a lot of selfish time to make music.

Karl Marx

Under private property, each tries to establish over the other an alien power, so as thereby to find satisfaction of his own selfish need. The increase in the quantity of objects is therefore accompanied by an extension of the realm of the alien powers to which man is subjected, and every new product represents a new potentiality of mutual swindling and mutual plundering.

Karl Marx

If we have chosen the position in life in which we can most of all work for mankind, no burdens can bow us down, because they are sacrifices for the benefit of all; then we shall experience no petty, limited, selfish joy, but our happiness will belong to millions, our deeds will live on quietly but perpetually at work, and over our ashes will be shed the hot tears of noble people.

Kajol

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.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Customs are generally unselfish. Habits are nearly always selfish.

Gretchen Rubin

If I give more to myself, I can ask more from myself. Self-regard isn't selfish.

Gretchen Rubin

Your unhappiness doesn't help anyone else - and in fact, as I mentioned in another answer, happy people are more altruistically inclined. So happiness is not a selfish goal.

Gordon B. Hinckley

It is selfishness which is the cause of most of our misery.

Gordon B. Hinckley

We are involved in an intense battle. It is a battle between right and wrong, between truth and error, between the design of the Almighty on the one hand and that of Lucifer on the other. For that reason, we desperately need moral men and women who stand on principle, to be involved in the political process. Otherwise, we abdicate power to those whose designs are almost entirely selfish.