Being Selfish Quotes

• To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate.

  Michael Jordan

  Motivational, Success, Basketball

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• I recognize that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognize that you can't be happy if you only care about yourself at the expense of other people.

  Russell Brand

  Selfish, People, Care

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• Men tend to be selfish.

  Caprice Bourret

  Selfish, Men

  "Caprice Bourret...the sexiest fish in the pond". www.askmen.com.

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• Being selfish to me means that you have to look out for yourself and you don't have to sacrifice.

  Herbie Mann

  Selfish, Mean, Sacrifice

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• You have to be selfish to be an actor.

  Charles Dance

  Selfish, Selfishness, Actors

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• Being stubborn has helped, being selfish is not a bad thing.

  Herbie Mann

  Selfish, Stubborn, Bad Things

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• Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless.

  Edward Albert

  Selfish, Selfless, Sometimes

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• It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Selfish, Mistake, Emotion

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• Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Sad, Beautiful

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.64, Oscar Wilde

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• Unless you love yourself, you can't love anybody. Be selfish.

  Rajneesh

  Selfish, Love You, Miscellaneous

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• The most DIFFICULT thing for individuals to do when they become part of a team is to sacrifice, it is much EASIER to be selfish.

  Pat Riley

  Selfish, Team, Sacrifice

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• I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me, if I do that well enough, then I'll be able to look after someone else -- the children or the husband or the elderly. But I have to look after myself first. I know that some people think that's being selfish, I think that's being self-full.

  Maya Angelou

  Children, Husband, Selfish

  "Maya Angelou Opens Women’s Health And Wellness Center, Calls Disparities ‘Embarrassing’" by Jessica Cumberbatch Anderson, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 15, 2012.

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• That's okay. You an be selfish with me all you want. I'm yours.

  Abbi Glines

  Selfish, Want, Okay

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• Shouldn't you have a license for being that ugly?

  Russell Lynes

  Wise, Ugly, Insult

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• Loving yourself has nothing to do with being selfish, self-centered or self-engrossed. It means that you accept yourself for what you are. Loving yourself means that you accept responsibility for your own development, growth and happiness.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Selfish, Mean, Responsibility

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• I have learned to go fully in the face of my dreams. I would recommend you do the same. Now is the time in your life to be selfish. To explore. To take chances. Remember being selfish is not the same as being self-indulgent. You have the gift of time. Use it to do what you love. Believe anything is possible and then work like hell to make it happen.

  Julianna Margulies

  Dream, Selfish, Believe

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• Know that truth, forgiveness, and love can heal the world. Imagine if all of us could be truthful with ourselves, start forgiving everyone, and start loving everyone. We would no longer be selfish, gossiping would be over, and we would no longer judge one another. The world would become a place where all of us live in love.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Selfish, Judging, Forgiving

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• Just don't let anything get in the way of what you want to achieve. A lot of people get knocked back by friends, or family, or peer pressure. If you have a talent and want to do something with it, it's down to you. If it's what you really want then go after it and be very selfish... You have to remain committed, you have to stay focused and you have to be selfish.

  George Sampson

  Selfish, People, Peer Pressure

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• That's the point of music, to not be selfish and to help other people, I think.

  Zac Farro

  Selfish, Helping Others, Thinking

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• Great leaders have to know when to divide that line from being selfless to being selfish, and he perfectly chose the time to be selfish and made plays.

  Michael Irvin

  Selfish, Play, Leader

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• These are uncertain times. We cannot be content to rest on yesterday's laurels. These are times when we must strengthen rather than let down those standards which have stood in such good stead in crises that are past. Baseball cannot be selfish, or irresponsible, or lax. Neither can the men who operate it.

  Branch Rickey

  Baseball, Selfish, Past

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• I know that actors and actresses have a great reputation for being very, very selfish, and in some cases, that's very true. But in the theater I find it doesn't help you to be selfish. You sort of have to be selfless in the theater, and the more selfless you are - that doesn't mean don't take care of yourself - but the more you sort of surrender to the work, I find, the better the work is. That's just my experience.

  Laura Linney

  Selfish, Mean, Selfless

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• If I love myself I will express that love in my interactions with you, and then I am being impeccable with the word, because that action will produce a like reaction. If I love you, then you will love me. If I insult you, you will insult me. If I have gratitude for you , you will have gratitude for me. If I'm selfish with you, you will be selfish with me.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Motivational, Gratitude, Integrity

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• Historically, education has been about batch processing: standardize everything against the average, rank kids, sort them to see who gets more and who really doesn't deserve to be there. The problem, even if you're just being selfish from an economic standpoint, is we're not producing the talent we need.

  L. Todd Rose

  Selfish, Kids, Average

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• There will be selfishness and greed and corruption and narrowness and intolerance in the world tomorrow and tomorrow's tomorrow. But pray God we may have the courage and the wisdom and the vision to raise a definite standard that will appeal to the best that is in man, and then strive mightily toward that goal.

  Harold Stassen

  Courage, Selfish, Men

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