Being Selfish Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• 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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• 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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• All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.

  Oscar Wilde

  Selfish, People, Secret

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Complete Short Stories of Oscar Wilde”, p.40, Courier Corporation

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• He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Love, Fall, Temporary Insanity

  Poor Richard's Almanack, May 1738

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• You shouldn't punish others for your own choices.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Choices, Selfishness, Selfish World

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• Love is the most selfish of all the passions.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Selfish, Passion, Love Is

  Alexandre Dumas (1878). “The Three Musketeers”, p.83, ebookfreedom

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• I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Tea, Ironic, Selfishness

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind because the truth lies elsewhere

  Blaise Pascal

  Hate, Lying, Important

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• I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

  Jane Austen

  Selfish, Practice, Principles

  'Pride and Prejudice' (1813) ch. 58 (Mr Darcy)

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• Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Selfish, War, Forgiving

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.78

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• Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect

  George Sand

  Selfish, Self Respect, Self

  George Sand (2000). “Indiana”, p.145, Chicago Review Press

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• There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Wisdom, Selfish People

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.61, First Avenue Editions

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• Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.

  Erich Fromm

  Selfish, Love You, Greed

  Erich Fromm (2014). “The Erich Fromm Reader: Readings Selected and Edited by Rainer Funk”, p.105, Open Road Media

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• Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

  Khalil Gibran

  Wisdom, Selfish, Laughing

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• As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

  Helen Keller

  Night Vision, True Joy, Selfish People

  Helen Keller (2007). “My Religion”, p.170, Book Tree

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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