Selfish Quotes - Page 33

• It takes a lot of selfish time to make music.

  Gwen Stefani

  "It's Good To Be Gwen Stefani". Cosmopolitain Interview, www.cosmopolitan.com. June 09, 2004.

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• The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It's more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to be unfailingly lighthearted.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Discipline, Generosity, Energy

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• Affection between adults - if they are really adult in mind and not merely grown up children - and creatures so relatively selfish and cruel as children necessarily are without knowing it or meaning it, cannot be called natural.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Children, Knowing, Mind

  George Bernard Shaw (2004). “A Treatise on Parents and Children”, p.31, 1st World Publishing

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• Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for selfish motives

  George Bernard Shaw

  Principles, Justified, Economic

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• I am giving you examples of the fact that this creature man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero. . . . I tell you, gentlemen, if you can shew a man a piece of what he now calls God's work to do, and what he will later call by many new names, you can make him entirely reckless of the consequences to himself personally.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Work, Hero, Fighting

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• Fear-of not being loved, of abandonment, of being thought to be selfish-is the main thing that keeps us vulnerable and bound in the chains of emotional dependence. Therefore, our two most difficult challenges are to truly believe it is okay for us to be ourselves and to learn to live with, move through, and heal our fears.

  Sue Thoele

  Being Yourself, Believe, Moving

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• Every noble action is selfish. Some selfish actions are nobler than others. But they are all selfish. And as such there can be no action purely noble anyway. Even the nobility in God's great philosophical intentions is bounded by his vanity.

  Kedar Joshi

  Philosophical, Vanity, Noble

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• National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice.

  Samuel Smiles

  Individuality, Progress, Decay

  Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.16

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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, Years, Acting

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• Shall an invention be patented or donated to the public freely? I have known some well-meaning scientific men ... to look askance at the patenting of inventions, as if it were a rather selfish and ungracious act, essentially unworthy. The answer is very simple. Publish an invention freely, and it will almost surely die from lack of interest in its development. It will not be developed and the world will not be benefited. Patent it, and if valuable, it will be taken up and developed into a business.

  Elihu Thomson

  Taken, Science, Simple

  "Elihu Thomas lays down principles for inventors" by Thomas, E., Electrical World 75, (p. 1505), 1920.

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• When you do things in a selfish way, let alone a destructive way, then you are bound by that karma. Your state of mind will go down. You will find yourself becoming depressed, nervous, anxious and upset.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Upset, Mind

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• Humans call animals 'dumb'... after they robbed their entire own precious world. They are intelligent beings in their own right, and thoroughly self-sufficient... if not molested by humans. Yet, after millennia of slavery by selfish/callous humans they're made to look dumb! The 'superior species' in their situations would, too, appear 'dumb'.

  Adela Popescu

  Animal, Intelligent, Dumb

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• It needs some intelligence to be truly selfish. The unintelligent can only be self-righteous.

  Eric Hoffer

  Needs, Self Righteous, Unintelligent

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• The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.

  John Updike

  Light, Opposites, Afterlife

  John Updike (2012). “Self-Consciousness: Memoirs”, p.214, Random House

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• It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.

  Ayn Rand

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.41, Penguin

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• People have become so selfish that they no longer care for others, or anything other than their own welfare.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  People, Care, Welfare

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• A Christian marriage is [not] one with no problems or even a marriage with fewer problems. (It may well mean more problems.) But it does mean a life in which two people are able to accept each other and love each other in the midst of problems and fears. It means a marriage in which selfish people can accept selfish people without constantly trying to change them -- and even accept themselves, because they realize personally that they have been accepted by Christ.

  Keith Miller

  Christian, Mean, Two

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• The selfish man cuts away the sand from under his own feet, he digs his own grave; and every time, from the beginning of the world until now, God Almighty pushes him into the grave and covers him up.

  Charles Henry Fowler

  Cutting, Men, Feet

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 537), 1895.

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• If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Friendship, True Friend, Lovers

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1866). “Little Foxes: Or, The Insignificant Little Habits which Mar Domestic Happiness”, p.55

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• Self esteem is not the same as being self centered, self absorbed or selfish. Self esteem is also not complacency or overconfidence, both of which and set us up for failure. Self esteem is a strong motivator to work hard. Self esteem is related to mental health and happiness.

  Glenn R. Schiraldi

  Strong, Self Esteem, Hard Work

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• The greatest moments in life are not concerned with selfish achievements, but rather with the things we do for others

  Walt Disney

  Achievement, Moments, Concerned

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• Those who oppose all reform will do well to remember that ruin in its worst form is inevitable if our national life brings us nothing better than swollen fortunes for the few and the triumph in both politics and business of a sordid and selfish materialism.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Business, Ruins, Triumph

  Theodore Roosevelt (1926). “The Works of Theodore Roosevelt”

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• Probably the greatest need in the Church today is a body of men who are absolutely devoted, every selfish purpose and plan given up, to the one great end of magnifying the Lord Jesus Christ in the midst of the nation.

  Wilbur Moorehead Smith

  Christian, Jesus, Men

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• Meditation without selfless giving is not enough. You may go into very high states of consciousness but the rough edges will still be there - there may be lots of selfish motives lurking within the self - that you don't see.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Rough Edges

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• She's an idiot. She's looking at life through a selfish, lusty haze.

  Joy Browne

  Women, Idiot, Haze

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