Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brad Pitt

It may be a brief interruption - just a few seconds - but what if someone sitting near you is trying to make a decent bootleg? Did you ever think of that? Now all those street-corner copies are permanently defiled by your so-called 'emergency.' Don't be so damn selfish.

Jane Goodall

Of course we're all programmed genetically to some extent. But the "selfish gene" thesis doesn't explain everything.

Jamie Campbell Bower

As a director, you have a thousand things going on in your head, and of course, that's going to be difficult. That's going to mean that some things get overlooked. And so, for us as performers, being the selfish pricks that we are, we're sitting there being concerned about ourselves all the time and our character's through-line.

Caprice Bourret

Men tend to be selfish.

C. S. Lewis

‎"Don't bother too much about your feelings. When they are humble, loving, brave, give thanks for them; when they are conceited, selfish, cowardly, ask to have them altered. In neither case are they you, but only a thing that happens to you. What matters is your intentions and your behavior

Barry Goldwater

...this bill will require the creation of a Federal police force of mammoth proportions. It also bids fair to result in the development of an 'informer' psychology in great areas of our national life-neighbors spying on neighbors, workers spying on workers, business spying on businessmen-were those who would harass their fellow citizens for selfish and narrow purposes will have ample inducement to do so. These, the Federal police force an 'informer' psychology, are the hallmarks of the police state and landmarks in the destruction of a free society.

Antonio Gramsci

It indicates a person who has not only good manners but who possesses a sense of balance, a sure mastery of himself, a moral discipline that permits him to subordinate voluntarily his own selfish interest to the wider interests of the society in which he lives. The gentleman, therefore is a cultural person in the noblest sense of the word, if by culture we mean not simply wealth of intellectual knowledge but also the ability to fulfil one's duty and understand one's fellow man by respecting / every principle, every opinion, every faith that is sincerely professed.

Dale Carnegie

Do you know someone you would like to change and regulate and improve? Good! That is fine. I am all in favor of it, But why not begin on yourself? From a purely selfish standpoint, that is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others - yes, and a lot less dangerous.

Claude C. Hopkins

Remember the people you address are selfish, as we all are. They care nothing about your interests or profit. They seek service for themselves

Stephanie Scalessa

As a runner, the mental toughness Steven has is amazing.

Leroy Foster

The motivation wasn't there. I don't know if it was the layoff, but they just weren't ready to play. The mental mistakes, the turnovers, everything just showed they weren't prepared.

Megan Callahan

Roose has tremendous physical and mental toughness, leadership, skills, and experience.

Carol Hutchins

Samantha's one of the most mentally tough people I've ever met,

Sam Blank

It was a little different. I think its all about warming up and staying mentally focused.

Tony Russa

That's just the way he pitches. I think it has more to do with him mentally concentrating really well. He hasn't let anything get away from him.

John Sullivan

You smile with just the mere mention of his name.

Marcus Aurelius

You may send poetry to the rich; to poor men give substantial presents

English 16th Century Proverbs

Young men may die, but old men must die.

Aristotle

There must be in prudence also some master virtue.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs.

Romain Rolland

Leave your theories. All theories, you see, even those of virtue, are bad, foolish, mischievous.

John Milton

Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.

Marilynne Robinson

I don't know exactly what covetous is, but in my experience it is not so much desiring someone else's virtue or happiness as rejecting it, taking offense at the beauty of it.

John Stuart Mill

It would not be easy even for an unbeliever, to find a better translation of the rule of virtue from the abstract into the concrete, than to endeavor so to live that Christ would approve our life.

John Ruskin

Society has sacrificed its virtues to the Goddess of Getting Along.

Gary Zukav

As you come to seek and see the virtues and strengths and nobilities of others, you begin to seek and see them in yourself also.

Euripides

If one must do a wrong, it's best to do it pursuing power-otherwise, let's have virtue.