Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aggression is the first step on the slippery slope to selfishness and chaos.

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

Clara Barton

An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness.

Daniel Smith

There are many selfish people who are extremely original, then they take those pure ideas and use them to raise themselves up, that is an insincere move.

Duane G. Carey

And, one thing I definitely enjoyed personally, from a selfish point of view, was exploration and going to places that I had never been to before and learning, you know, meeting the people and getting to know, new sights and sounds, etc.

Douglas Leone

Be incredibly, ruthlessly selfish with your equity.

Andrea Tantaros

Conservatives need to figure out a way to motivate by reason and persuade through emotion. Meaning that when they talk about our issues, it can't come from a selfish place - "Give me a tax cut. Where's my tax cut." We have to get back to that "shining city on the hill."

Anthony de Mello

Live your life as you see fit. That's not selfish. Selfish is to demand that others live their lives as you see fit.

Anthony de Mello

A writer arrived at the monastery to write a book about the Master. "People say you are a genius . Are you?" he asked. "You might say so." said the Master, none too modestly. "And what makes one a genius?" "The ability to recognize." "Recognize what?" "The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg; the saint in a selfish human being.

Anthony de Mello

The butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg; the saint in a selfish human being.

Anne Rice

Heaven would be Hell in no time if every cruel, selfish, vicious soul went to Heaven.

Anna Deavere Smith

My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.

Anita Brookner

It is best to marry for purely selfish reasons.

Anita Brookner

You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish.

Andy Murray

One of the worst things sin did for man was to make him selfish, for selfishness cannot love.

Ambrose Bierce

Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.

Anthony Kiedis

It was because all we wanted was each other's constant love and attention and for no one else to receive that love and attention, which is a selfish and difficult place to be in a relationship. We were emotionally retarded, and that was the best we could do at the time.

Anthony Kiedis

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

Anne Sullivan

We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.

Alexandre Dumas

Love is the most selfish of all the passions.

Aristotle

Selfishness doesn't consist in a love to yourself, but in a big degree of such love.

Eddie Van Halen

We make music for a living. Like I've always said, if you like what you're doing, you're halfway there; if someone else likes it, that's even better. If they don't like it, at least you like it. Not to be selfish, but you kind of have to be.

Chris Evert

To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost.

Dennis Prager

Yet, while producing increasingly selfish people, the mantra of the Left, and therefore of the universities and the media, has been for generations that capitalism and the free market, not the welfare state, produces selfish people.

Bram Stoker

Love is, after all, a selfish thing; and it throws a black shadow on anything between which and the light it stands.

Aaron Kampman

What you learn about yourself is that you continue to see that you're selfish. It's so easy, in our Laodicean culture with all the different things that grab our minds that aren't of eternal value, to let those tentacles wrap themselves around your heart. That's one of the reasons why we love going overseas. It helps us to break free of those things. We've been on all of these trips, but it's easy to slide back into the selfishness of life. That's what we find out about ourselves.

Bill Crawford

Selfish is caring for ourselves at others' expense ... Self-care is taking care of ourselves so that we can be there for others.

C. S. Lewis

If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit.

C. S. Lewis

I am suffering incessant temptations to uncharitable thoughts at present; one of those black moods in which nearly all one's friends seem to be selfish or even false. And how terrible that there should be even a kind of pleasure in thinking evil.

Craig Biggio

I'm not greedy, I'm not selfish I just wanted to get to a World Series one time,

They are not selfish in the least bit; they're just very team-oriented.

Danny Trejo

If you look at the people in Hollywood who are heavy partiers, they're selfish, self-centered and egotistical.