Selfish Quotes - Page 4

• All sin is selfish, whether it be lying, cheating, stealing, immorality, covetousness, or idleness. Sin is for one's own ends, not for another's-certainly not for the Lord's ends.

  Derek A. Cuthbert

  Cheating, Lying, Sin

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• If you want to be wisely selfish, care for others

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Care, Want

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• Drug addicts, when they are in their addiction, are selfish.

  Liz Brixius

  Addiction, Drug, Drug Addict

  Source: deadline.com

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• Left to themselves people are noble, generous, uncorrupted, they'd create a completely new kind of society if only people weren't so blind, stupid and selfish.

  Tom Stoppard

  Stupid, People, Noble

  Tom Stoppard (2013). “The Coast of Utopia Trilogy”, Faber & Faber

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• Giving primacy to God means having the courage to say ‘no’ to evil, ‘no’ to violence, ‘no’ to oppression, to live a life in service of others and which fosters lawfulness and the common good. When a person discovers God, the true treasure, he abandons a selfish lifestyle and seeks to share with others the charity which comes from God. He who becomes a friend of God, loves his brothers and sisters, commits himself to safeguarding their life and their health, and also to respecting the environment and nature.

  Pope Francis

  Brother, Mean, Evil

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• If the church is going to make a difference, it will need to go through the "big give-up" stage. Churches will need to quit being selfish and become relevant.

  John C. Maxwell

  Giving Up, Differences, Making A Difference

  Source: enrichmentjournal.ag.org

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• Grief and disappointment are like hate: they make men ugly with self-pity and bitterness. And how selfish they make us too.

  Graham Greene

  Disappointment, Hate, Grief

  Graham Greene (1974). “The end of the affair”, Vintage

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• Too many people want the fruit of Paul's ministry without paying the price that Paul paid. He died. He died to everything. He died daily He was crucified with Christ ... I challenge you to pray this prayer: 'Lord, be ruthless with me in revealing my selfish ambition and my lack of willingness to die to myself.' I guarantee that He will answer your prayer - and quickly.

  Floyd McClung

  Prayer, Ambition, Guarantees That

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• The only thing that matters my goal my reward my beginning my end is the work itself. My work done my way. A private personal selfish egotistical motivation. That’s the only way I function. That’s all I am.

  Ayn Rand

  Motivation, Goal, Done

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• To love is to value. Only a rationally selfish man, a man of self esteem, is capable of love - because he is the only man capable of holding firm, consistent, uncompromising, unbetrayed value. The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone

  Ayn Rand

  Self Esteem, Love Is, Men

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.29, Penguin

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• Our marriage is grounded in the word of God. That's really it. God is the core of our marriage, and the foundation and the blueprint for it is how we live, and being open and honest and communicating, but ultimately doing what pleases God, and not in a selfish manner.

  Candace Cameron

  Foundation, Honest, Communicate

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The number-one job of the hedge-fund manager is not to make sure that you can retire with a smile on your face - it's for him to retire with a smile on his face.

  Mark Cuban

  Smile, Jobs, Numbers

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• Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sensual, Failing, Individual

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1958). “Emerson: A Modern Anthology”

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• I do this for the sake of myself. It's a selfish process. I don't really have any expectations from anyone for your comments or your reviews or your previews.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Expectations, Sake, Process

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

  Jack Kevorkian

  People, Sound, Doe

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• I think I'm still figuring out how to be a little less selfish.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Thinking, Littles, Stills

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• I'm just selfish. I have to be for what I do.

  Shia LaBeouf

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• California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.

  D. H. Lawrence

  California, Effort, Looks

  "The Letters of D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton, E. Mansfield, and W. Roberts". Book by D. H. Lawrence, Vol. 4, 1987.

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• When you win, you often lose, that's just a fact. There's no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart.

  Abraham Verghese

  Heart, Winning, Facts

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• When the switch fell I could feel it upon my flesh; when it welted and ridged it was my blood that ran, and I would think with each blow of the switch: Now you are aware of me! Now I am something in your secret and selfish life, who have marked your blood with my own for ever and ever.

  William Faulkner

  Blow, Thinking, Blood

  William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill, John Steinbeck (1971). “William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill [and] John Steinbeck”

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• Oh, I will be cruel to you, Marya Morevna. It will stop your breath, how cruel I can be. But you understand, don’t you? You are clever enough. I am a demanding creature. I am selfish and cruel and extremely unreasonable. But I am your servant. When you starve I will feed you; when you are sick I will tend you. I crawl at your feet; for before your love, your kisses, I am debased. For you alone I will be weak.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Clever, Kissing, Feet

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.72, Macmillan

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• At first it upset me to realize how many people are, at heart, selfish. Now I take that in stride, but people's loneliness still gets to me.

  Janette Rallison

  Loneliness, Heart, People

  Janette Rallison (2009). “Just One Wish”, p.30, Penguin

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• Everyone thinks I'm showing off when I talk, ridiculous when I'm silent, insolent when I answer, cunning when I have a good idea, lazy when I'm tired, selfish when I eat one bite more than I should.

  Anne Frank

  Tired, Thinking, Ideas

  Anne Frank (2011). “The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition”, p.54, Bantam

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• Only you could love such a vile, selfish peacock, Evie.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Peacock

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• You have been called selfish for the courage of acting on your own judgement and bearing sole responsibility for your own life. You have been called arrogant for your independent mind. You have been called cruel for your unyielding integrity. You have been calle anti social for the vision that made you venture upon undiscovered roads.

  Ayn Rand

  Integrity, Independent, Responsibility

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.76, Penguin

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