Being Selfish Quotes - Page 4

• Unconditional love. That’s what he wants to give her and what he wants from her. People should give without wanting anything in return. All other giving is selfish. But he is being selfish a little, isn’t he, by wanting her to love him in return? He hopes that she loves him in return. Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back? Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like oceans and clouds, an evaporating of seawater and a replenishing of rain?

  Alan Lightman

  Selfish, Rain, Ocean

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• My wit is like your legs," said Xochi. " It would be selfish of me to keep it hidden.

  Dan Wells

  Selfish, Would Be, Legs

  Dan Wells (2014). “Partials series 1-3 (Partials; Fragments; Ruins) (Partials)”, p.61, HarperCollins UK

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• In order to be able to give a girlfriend the amount of time she deserves, you would need time, and I just can't give her that. So, rather than being selfish or stupid enough to go into a relationship, it's just been easier to be single.

  Ryan Kwanten

  Girlfriend, Stupid, Selfish

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• To talk about something like prostitution, the other person then becomes the wild card that will have a response, and it may not be the response you want. Sometimes I think saying it would be selfish to tell them is still being under the illusion that you have all the power. You say it would be selfish to tell them, when in fact you're scared that in telling them, it gives them the power to do what they might want to do because once they know, they become somebody who could be reactive.

  Robin Weigert

  Selfish, Thinking, Giving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The energy crisis has not yet overwhelmed us, but it will if we do not act quickly. It's a problem that we will not be able to solve in the next few years, and it's likely to get progressively worse through the rest of this century. We must not be selfish or timid if we hope to have a decent world for our children and grandchildren. We simply must balance our demand for energy with our rapidly shrinking resources. By acting now we can control our future instead of letting the future control us.

  Jimmy Carter

  Children, Selfish, Years

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• 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."

  Viggo Mortensen

  Selfish, Character, Thinking

  "Viggo Mortensen, Man of the World". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 5, 2015.

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• I'm not saying I'm going to rule the world, I'm going to change the world. But I guarantee I will spark the brain that will change the world. And that's our job. It's to spark somebody else watching us. We might not be the one, but let's not be selfish. And because we['re] not going to change the world, not talk about how we should change it. I don't know how to change it. But I know if I keep talking about how dirty it is out here, somebody's going to clean it up!

  Tupac Shakur

  Jobs, Selfish, Dirty

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• Selfishness, not love, is the actuating motive of the gallant.

  Madame Roland

  Selfish, Love Is, Gallant

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• Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Hope, Selfish

  1814 Mansfield Park, ch.7.

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• From this it follows that con-sideration for other persons or for other living beings is very vital for goodness and want of consideration for other people makes human beings selfish, regardless for other people's good.

  Morarji Desai

  Selfish, People, Want

  "19th World Vegetarian Congress 1967". The British Vegetarian, ivu.org. March/April 1968.

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• As an athlete you're taught to be selfish. When I'm training, it's usually all about me.

  Ronda Rousey

  Selfish, Athlete, Training

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• Some might say that looking inside of ourselves for spiritual truths is egocentric and selfish, and that egolessness and selflessness lie in working for others in the world. But until we find our inner truth, our work in the world will always revolve around our 'selves'. As long as we think about the world in terms of 'self' and 'others', our actions will be selfish. Our 'self' follows us wherever we go, so positive results will be limited.

  Tarthang Tulku

  Spiritual, Lying, Selfish

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• To be selfish, greedy and unwilling to help the needy gives rise to future starvation and clothlessness.

  Gautama Buddha

  Karma, Selfish, Giving

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• To talk only about national security, national defense, means to be selfish, ambitious. It is discrimination, isolation. "It is just me. What do I care about others?"

  Evo Morales

  Selfish, Mean, Ambitious

  Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. September 22, 2010.

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• Sometimes the coaches tell me to be selfish, but my game won't let me be selfish.

  LeBron James

  Basketball, Selfish, Games

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• Ideas that spread win. Ideas don't have to be selfish to win, in fact, it turns out that the more generous the interactions an idea produces, the more likely it is to spread.

  Seth

  Selfish, Winning, Ideas

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

  Aisha Tyler

  Selfish, Be Kind, Just Being

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.

  William Cowper

  Inspirational, Selfish, War

  William Cowper (1845). “The Poetical Works of William Cowper”, p.1

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• Traditional spirituality often made pleasure, joy, good feelings. the things to overcome. It said you couldn't just indulge in your desires; that would be selfish. Anyone who has been in a spiritual community recognizes the dangers of this kind of joyless spirituality, where everything is somber and heavy and serious. We recognize that as kind of a trap, a false path.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Spiritual, Selfish, Community

  Source: www.mindfulnessbell.org

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• A free society that allows each individual to seek his or her own selfish ends (without deliberately trying to harm anyone else) will produce a state in which everyone's interest is optimized without any individual knowing in advance what that state might be.

  Stuart Kauffman

  Selfish, Knowing, Individuality

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• Everybody wants to talk about NBA players being selfish and arrogant and individuals. But what you saw today was a team bonding and facing adversity and coming out with a big win.

  Kobe Bryant

  Basketball, Team, Selfish

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• No matter how low down you are; no matter what your disposition has been; you may be low in your thoughts, words, and actions; you may be selfish; your heart may be overflowing with corruption and wickedness; yet Jesus will have compassion upon you. He will speak comforting words to you; not treat you coldly or spurn you, as perhaps those of earth would, but will speak tender words, and words of love and affection and kindness. Just come at once. He is a faithful friend - a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Jesus, Brother, Kindness

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• Maybe I'm being selfish, but I choose you." He leaned over, lips brushing mine as he whispered, "I always choose you.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Selfish, Lips, Mines

  Kelley Armstrong (2016). “Otherworld Secrets: An Anthology”, p.272, Penguin

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• I think sometimes for me that sounds like almost being selfish. I am not about personal records.

  Pat Summitt

  Selfish, Thinking, Sound

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• We put out a certain energy and we are a certain type of guy. I think the way we played out there for instance, we were down with a few minutes left and instead of everybody breaking apart or being selfish, I think we just pulled together.

  Cleanthony Early

  Selfish, Thinking, Guy

  Source: uproxx.com

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