When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone. Votes: 6
Tennessee WilliamsBeing sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it. Votes: 4
Douglas HortonThe world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places. Votes: 4
Bryant H. McGillSelfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. Votes: 4
Oscar WildeSelfish genes actually explain altruistic individuals, and to me that's crystal-clear. Votes: 3
Richard DawkinsCompassion brings fulfillment to the heart. Selfish desires simply agitate the heart. Votes: 3
Radhanath SwamiRichard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene is a classic example of science fiction. Votes: 3
Pope Benedict XVISelfish-gene theory tells us nothing about the value of interacting through language. Votes: 3
Noam ChomskySelfish prudence is too often allowed to come between duty and human life. Votes: 3
Rebecca Lee CrumplerSelfish act is very tempting but it leaves a permanent dent on your character. Votes: 3
Saru SinghalSelfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth. Votes: 3
William Jennings BryanSelfish people tend to only be good to themselves... then are surprised when they are alone. Votes: 3
Steve MaraboliSelfish men were...trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights Votes: 3
Maria Weston ChapmanSelfish" a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice. Votes: 3
George EliotSelfish isn't a dirty word. It means we take care of ourselves and are able to give back. Votes: 3
Jillian MichaelsChildlessness doesn't make people selfish; selfishness makes people selfish. Votes: 2
Elizabeth GilbertI am a greedy, selfish bastard. I want the fact that I existed to mean something. Votes: 2
Harry ChapinMy son's the most precious thing to me; he's changed me from being selfish to selfless. Votes: 2
Ricardo Antonio ChaviraA man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's. Votes: 2
Richard WhatelyWhen you go out there and do the things you're supposed to do, people view you as selfish. Votes: 2
Wilt ChamberlainI am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy, and driven. Votes: 0
Barbra StreisandHuman beings are endowed by nature with both selfish and unselfish impulses. Votes: 0
Reinhold NiebuhrMan is the most dangerous, destructive, selfish, and unethical animal on earth. Votes: 0
Michael FoxIf you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders. Votes: 0
George CarlinSin always finds it's root in our own selfish desires and self-gratification. Votes: 0
Joseph CampbellBeneath a mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom. Votes: 0
Cyril ConnollyCan a selfish egocentric jealous and unimaginative female write a damn thing worthwhile? Votes: 0
Sylvia Plath.. the voice of nature and experience seems plainly to oppose the selfish theory. Votes: 0
David HumeSometimes you need to be a little selfish because kindness is seldom appreciated. Votes: 0
Chirag TulsianiA player should never be selfish and should always contribute to team's victory. Votes: 0
Shahid AfridiPeople are generally irrational, unreasonable and selfish. They deserve to be loved, anyway. Votes: 0
Mother TeresaGame theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players. Votes: 0
Yanis VaroufakisWe, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators. Votes: 0
Richard DawkinsAll men are selfish, brutal and inconsiderate--and I wish I could find one. Votes: 0
Shulamith FirestoneNext to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish. Votes: 0
William Makepeace ThackerayPolitics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest. Votes: 0
Thomas SowellThe endeavor to change universal power by selfish supplication I do not believe in. Votes: 0
Thomas A. EdisonPhotographs put time into such a perspective. They humble us and our selfish memories. Votes: 0
Wim WendersWhy should neurotic, selfish, immature people suddenly become angels when they fall in love ... ? Votes: 0
Denis de RougemontArtists are the worst [people]. They are selfish, self-centred; they don't care what happens. Votes: 0
Ai WeiweiIt needs some intelligence to be truly selfish. The unintelligent can only be self-righteous. Votes: 0
Eric HofferMyth: There's conflict between selfish free markets and a benevolent world of human sympathy. Votes: 0
Ted MallochIf you are not selfish and greedy, you picked up riches along the street. Votes: 0
Michael Bassey JohnsonThe commonest weakness of our race is our ability to rationalize our most selfish purposes. Votes: 0
Robert A. HeinleinIt is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love. Votes: 0
Ayn RandThe passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings. Votes: 0
Honore de BalzacWe cannot free ourselves from pride and selfish ambition; a divine rescue is absolutely necessary. Votes: 0
C. J. MahaneyIt is the liberal philosophy, not the conservative one, that views humans as selfish automatons. Votes: 0
Allen WestThe Man who works for others, without any selfish motive, really does good to himself. Votes: 0
RamakrishnaPeople of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience. Votes: 0
Mikhail BaryshnikovTo have serpentlike qualities devoid of dovelike qualities is to be passionless, mean, and selfish. Votes: 0
Martin Luther King, Jr.I think that people who don't like animals tend to be selfish, but I'm biased. Votes: 0
Jessica AlbaIf you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway. Votes: 0
Mother TeresaIf I give more to myself, I can ask more from myself. Self-regard isn't selfish. Votes: 0
Gretchen RubinI have never seduced a fish taco for selfish reasons. I am an altruistic lover. Votes: 0
Jarod KintzA personal selfish prayer is bad whether made before an image or an unseen God. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiSocialism is the ideal state, but it can never be achieved while man is so selfish. Votes: 0
Annie BesantTo be stupid, and selfish, and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness. Votes: 0
Julian BarnesI can't stand Tiger Woods. He is the most selfish man I've ever played golf with. Votes: 0
Stewart RahrForgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives. Votes: 0
Lawana BlackwellIt is not selfish or narcissistic to love yourself. It is your first and foremost responsibility. Votes: 0
Alan CohenThe selfish mind is the distracted mind and the distracted mind is the easily oppressed mind. Votes: 0
Selena GomezThe craziest, most selfish act is to commit suicide. When you kill yourself, you kill others. Votes: 0
Jenny JosephSometimes you have to be selfish to get what you want and move forward in life. Votes: 0
Kristen StewartEvery experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonYou're selfish and you're cold, and I'm tired of getting frostbite when I touch you. (Acheron) Votes: 0
Sherrilyn KenyonAnyone who does anything for pleasure to indulge his selfish soul will surely burn in Hell. Votes: 0
Lenny BruceLearning to not be selfish is what has changed in me the most since being married. Votes: 0
Blake SheltonMy son's the most precious thing to me: He's changed me from being selfish to selfless. Votes: 0
Ricardo Antonio ChaviraHeaven would be Hell in no time if every cruel, selfish, vicious soul went to Heaven. Votes: 0
Anne RiceIt's good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people. Votes: 0
Hugh HefnerAs an athlete you're taught to be selfish. When I'm training, it's usually all about me. Votes: 0
Ronda RouseySometimes the coaches tell me to be selfish, but my game won't let me be selfish. Votes: 0
LeBron JamesTo exercise some sort of control over others is the secret motive of every selfish person. Votes: 0
Wallace D. WattlesIf your selfish goal will be useful to humanity, then let your selfish goal be triumphant! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanIt is humanly impossible to be selfless. As a matter of fact, human beings are inherently selfish. Votes: 0
Mokokoma MokhonoanaIn marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being. Votes: 0
Robert Louis StevensonI think sometimes for me that sounds like almost being selfish. I am not about personal records. Votes: 0
Pat SummittBe careful of selfish motives. You can mistake them for principles and end up dying for them. Votes: 0
Robert BreaultI would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me. Votes: 0
Alfred North WhiteheadPeople think that you are a nasty, selfish person if you don`t want to have children. Votes: 0
Janeane GarofaloI am guilty of a dreadful selfish crime. I have robbed myself of all my precious time Votes: 0
Robert Earl KeenThe butterfly in a caterpillar: the eagle in an egg; the saint in a selfish human being. Votes: 0
Anthony de MelloI do not think it is selfish to want to donate a kidney "only" to family members. Votes: 0
Mallory OrtbergThat's why charity work is very selfish at the same time, because it makes you feel good. Votes: 0
Maria MenounosTo be selfish is to sacrifice the nobler for the meaner ends, and to be sordidly content. Votes: 0
Hugh Reginald HaweisThose who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonIf you're selfish enough to kill yourself write your suicide note on the back of your will Votes: 0
Stanley Victor PaskavichYou have to be selfish with who you are to stop wanting in your relationship with yourself. Votes: 0
Unarine RamaruWhere all are selfish, the sage is no better than the fool, and only rather more dangerous. Votes: 0
James Anthony FroudeIt is absurd to suppose, if this is God's world, that men must always be selfish barbarians. Votes: 0
Charles Fletcher DoleSelf-care isn't selfish (it is a gift to all concerned). You can't serve from an empty vessel. Votes: 0
Eleanor BrownMy wit is like your legs," said Xochi. " It would be selfish of me to keep it hidden. Votes: 0
Dan WellsI have a pet peeve about bands that don't play their hits. I think it's kind of selfish. Votes: 0
Art AlexakisI change my mind so much, I'm better going on my own. Shopping is a selfish activity anyway. Votes: 0
Sophie KinsellaOne of the worst things sin did for man was to make him selfish, for selfishness cannot love. Votes: 0
Andy MurrayAll writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Votes: 0
George OrwellGod's love is so great that He loves even the proud, the selfish, the arrogant, and the wicked. Votes: 0
Dieter F. UchtdorfIt's enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back. Votes: 0
Adrian GrenierIn proportion as a man is selfish, so far has he receded from the motive which constitutes virtue. Votes: 0
Percy Bysshe ShelleyThe selfish leader will attempt to lead others for their own gain and for the detriment of others. Votes: 0
Tom PetersMarriage is a mystery and part of it is just being kind to each other, not being selfish. Votes: 0
Aisha TylerSure love is cruel and selfish and totally obtuse-- at least, blinded by the light, young love is. Votes: 0
William Carlos WilliamsIf you do a good deed to reap the reward of blessings, wouldn't you be performing a selfish act? Votes: 0
Kamil AliIt is easy to be proud & harsh & selfish - so easy. But we have been created for better things. Votes: 0
Mother TeresaI'm not a selfish actor. I believe that it's a team effort. You're not in a scene by yourself. Votes: 0
Taraji P. HensonI look back on my life and have to face the fact that I have been narcissistic and selfish. Votes: 0
James WoodsBeing selfish to me means that you have to look out for yourself and you don't have to sacrifice. Votes: 0
Herbie MannI became a lawyer for selfish reasons. I thought I could do a lawyer's job better than any other. Votes: 0
Ruth Bader GinsburgThe truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we're so busy now. Votes: 0
Phil McGrawEveryone has to contribute to the common good. To not do so can be described in one word: selfish. Votes: 0
Randy PauschBeing selfish to me means that you have to look out for yourself and you don't have to sacrifice. Votes: 4 Herbie Mann
If I had children, I would be very selfish. I wouldn't be out doing things. But by not having kids, it makes me freer to travel the world and talk about things I feel are important. Votes: 1 Linda Blair
I say you don't need religion, or political ideology, to understand human nature. Science reveals that human nature is greedy and selfish, altruistic and helpful. Votes: 5 Michael Shermer
A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses. Votes: 2 Oscar Wilde
I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself. Votes: 4 Irvine Welsh
There are points in your life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary. Votes: 1 Kris Kristofferson
There are points in your life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary. Votes: 1 Kris Kristofferson
I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me. Votes: 3 Alfred North Whitehead
I was raised on the brothers Grimm, but my favorite fairy tales in the world are Oscar Wilde's - 'The Nightingale and the Rose,' 'The Selfish Giant.' The latter is probably my all-time favorite. Votes: 1 Denis O'Hare
It is something of a miracle that individual selfish decisions (in a market economy) must lead to a collectively efficient outcome. Votes: 3 Steven Landsburg
I'm killing two birds at once, so to speak. Animal-based food kills people. This way, by going vegan... we get healthy and save animals. I'm being selfish, too, because if I can get my employees healthier, we cut down on sick days and gain more productivity. Votes: 1 Steve Wynn