Selfish Quotes

‘I’m selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I’m out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.’ – Marilyn Monroe

‘All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.’ – Pope Paul VI

‘The only difference between a hero and the villain is that the villain chooses to use that power in a way that is selfish and hurts other people.’ – Chadwick Boseman

‘The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places.’ – Bryant H. McGill

‘To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don’t isolate.’ – Michael Jordan

‘Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.’ – Khalil Gibran

‘To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.’ – Gustave Flaubert

‘Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless.’ – Edward Albert

‘Be selfless, not selfish.’ – Rev. Run

‘All these walls that keep us from loving each other as one family or one race – racism, religion, where we grew up, whatever, class, socioeconomic – what makes us be so selfish and prideful, what keeps us from wanting to help the next man, what makes us be so focused on a personal legacy as opposed to the entire legacy of a race.’ – Kanye West

‘With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone.’ – Buddha

‘Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure’s sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.’ – John Henry Newman

‘Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.’ – Erich Fromm

‘People are so selfish. Those you help are the ones who turn against you.’ – Munshi Premchand

‘The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.’ – Florence Nightingale

‘It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes… we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions – especially selfish ones.’ – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

‘The world is so competitive, aggressive, consumive, selfish and during the time we spend here we must be all but that.’ – Jose Mourinho

‘A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.’ – Edmund Burke

‘When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.’ – Tennessee Williams

‘I’m selfish.’ – Kendrick Lamar

‘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.’ – Clara Barton

‘A selfish man is a thief.’ – Jose Marti

‘If you look at life with any honesty and intelligence, it’s clear that human nature is dark, vile, selfish, and despondent. But I also see a force in human nature, namely grace, that sometimes works against our natural moral entropy.’ – Scott Derrickson

‘We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.’ – Anne Sullivan

‘Sometimes in life, you have to make a selfish decision and do what’s best for you.’ – Saquon Barkley

‘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.’ – Chris Evert

‘It’s good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people.’ – Hugh Hefner

‘What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.’ – Herbert Spencer

‘It’s enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back.’ – Adrian Grenier

‘I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.’ – Jane Austen

‘In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.’ – Iris Murdoch

‘It’s also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I’ve been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That’s why we’re here, after all, to help others.’ – Carol Burnett

‘Sometimes, idealistic people are put off the whole business of networking as something tainted by flattery and the pursuit of selfish advantage. But virtue in obscurity is rewarded only in Heaven. To succeed in this world you have to be known to people.’ – Sonia Sotomayor

‘If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.’ – Sadhu Vaswani

‘A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor’s.’ – Richard Whately

‘Socialism is the ideal state, but it can never be achieved while man is so selfish.’ – Annie Besant

‘The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.’ – Charles Trevelyan

‘If he doesn’t follow through with actions, he’s either selfish or a liar. Neither makes him sound like The One, does it?’ – Matthew Hussey

‘Love is not selfish. Love is something else.’ – Morten Tyldum

‘It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.’ – Jean-Paul Sartre

‘A faithful woman can become a devoted daughter of God – more concerned with being righteous than with being selfish, more anxious to exercise compassion than to exercise dominion, more committed to integrity than to notoriety. And she knows of her own infinite worth.’ – Russell M. Nelson

‘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.’ – Michael Shermer

‘All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it.’ – David Bowie

‘Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.’ – Richard Dawkins

‘Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.’ – Leigh Hunt

‘It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.’ – Andrew Jackson

‘Before my accident I was a little too… selfish and self-absorbed and for me, to now be at the place where I can kinda give back and inspire people. I’m blessed. I’m really blessed.’ – Rick Allen

‘We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.’ – Lord Byron

‘The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.’ – Pope John Paul II

‘I know that love is real when it’s not convenient, when it’s not selfish, when it’s challenged, sometimes even if it’s not reciprocated.’ – Viola Davis

‘People are so docile right now. It is almost as if good government means when the politicians lie to us for our own good, for the public good, and bad government is when politicians lie for their own selfish interests.’ – James Bovard

‘In socialism, private property is anathema, and equal distribution of income the first consideration. In capitalism, private property is cardinal, and distribution left to ensue from the play of free contract and selfish interest on that basis, no matter what anomalies it may present.’ – George Bernard Shaw

‘You don’t want to be the selfish point guard. You want to be the guy that gets everybody open, that makes plays, and see the ball move before it goes in.’ – Jamal Murray

‘I know that sounds selfish, but you have to look at what it’s doing to you personally – are you frustrated because of the way people perceive you, or are you happy enough about the things you’ve realized about yourself that you can tolerate the way people perceive you?’ – Shannon Hoon

‘During the Enlightenment, there were brilliant thinkers who realized that, if you assume most people are naturally selfish and you construct the market around that, sometimes it can actually work for the common good. I just think that in many cases, it went too far.’ – Rutger Bregman

‘I am the sort of player that likes to create goals. I think a lot of my team-mates know me as a player who is not selfish.’ – Mesut Ozil

‘I don’t think there’s such a thing as a selfish prayer. Prayer puts you in communication so you can talk about whatever you want to talk about.’ – Iyanla Vanzant

‘It’s kind of selfish to say that you’re only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.’ – Ta-Nehisi Coates

‘You have this one life. If you keep being selfish and unkind, it’s going to come back to you.’ – Clemantine Wamariya

‘Humans are selfish, and because of our innate selfishness, I’m very confident that we can overcome any amount of environmental destruction.’ – Liu Cixin

‘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.’ – Linda Blair

‘I don’t I don’t really care what people expect me to do at these Games. It’s all about me. It might sound a little selfish, but it’s what I want to accomplish and reaching my potential. Everything else, everybody else’s opinion, they can kick rocks.’ – Caeleb Dressel

‘I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy, and driven.’ – Barbra Streisand

‘It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies.’ – Rose Kennedy

‘I believe in aliens. I think it would be way too selfish of us as mankind to believe we are the only lifeforms in the universe.’ – Demi Lovato

‘If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts get politicised? I have values I inherited from my father. He helped many. Anyone, even a postman knocking on our door would get a glass of water and some sweets.’ – Sachin Tendulkar

‘I was given such a great gift. It’s a miracle that never stops amazing me and reminding me to give thanks, every day. Having a wife and daughter gives me a lot more purpose. I was much more selfish before, but now I think about what kind of role model I’ll be. I just want to be a better man.’ – Jake Owen

‘I recognize that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognize that you can’t be happy if you only care about yourself at the expense of other people.’ – Russell Brand

‘Our true passions are selfish.’ – Stendhal

‘In order to be able to give a girlfriend the amount of time she deserves, you would need time, and I just can’t give her that. So, rather than being selfish or stupid enough to go into a relationship, it’s just been easier to be single.’ – Ryan Kwanten

‘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

‘After all, I don’t see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood.’ – Anne Morrow Lindbergh

‘It’s hard to get people to overcome the thought that they have to take care of themselves first. It’s hard to get players to give in to the group and become selfless as opposed to selfish.’ – Isaiah Thomas

‘I knew that the UFC and that mixed martial arts in general was going to prosper because I was extremely selfish and cocky, and I thought: ‘Hey, if I like it, everyone’s gonna like it.’ Well, it came to fruition, and I chose a character that was not a far departure from myself at all.’ – Bill Goldberg

‘Major actions by courageous and wise men will be necessary to avoid our continuing to blunder into the space age like unenlightened and selfish idiots.’ – Fritz Zwicky

‘People have evolved into something selfish, greedy and intolerant. People are unaccepting, because of religion, race, gender, sexual orientation… I’ve seen it in punk clubs, and I’ve seen it in the world.’ – Gerard Way

‘My teammates trust me; they know I make the right plays. I’m not a selfish guy.’ – Kemba Walker

‘Sure, I have friends, plenty of friends, and they all come around wantin’ to borrow money. I’ve always been generous with my friends and family, with money, but selfish with the important stuff like love.’ – Richard Pryor

‘What about feeling sorry for those who pay the taxes? Those who are people that no one feels sorry for. They are asked to give and give until they have no more to give. And when they say ‘enough,’ they are called selfish.’ – Rush Limbaugh

‘If believing in yourself and going after what you want in life and realising your worth is ruthless and selfish, then I’m definitely ruthless and selfish.’ – Nicole Scherzinger

‘Moral evil is the immorality and pain and suffering and tragedy that come because we choose to be selfish, arrogant, uncaring, hateful and abusive.’ – Lee Strobel

‘It is easier to do one’s duty to others than to one’s self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish.’ – Thomas Szasz

‘I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That’s not me.’ – Alfred North Whitehead

‘I think we are living in selfish times. I’m the first one to say that I’m the most selfish. We live in the so-called ‘first world,’ and we may be first in a lot of things like technology, but we are behind in empathy.’ – Javier Bardem

‘If you are striving to have more happiness in your life, it helps to guide your mind towards starting to recognize what are selfish motivations and what are constructive motivations.’ – Adam Yauch

‘I think if we want to find happiness by finding a life partner, then it’s a little selfish. You should be complete within yourself, so that when you’re in a relationship, you can give out happiness rather than expect it.’ – Shahid Kapoor

‘If you want to be a generous giver, you have to watch out for selfish takers.’ – Adam Grant

‘My dad was not super-intentional in his parenting. He was very self-absorbed. I won’t say mean or selfish per se, but very self-absorbed. I think he was just thinking out loud.’ – Angela Duckworth

‘Democracies are slow to anger and hesitant to go to war: Voters don’t want to sacrifice their children for the glory of a selfish king.’ – Michio Kaku

‘Inflammatory passion and selfish interest characterizes most men, whereas ambition characterizes men who pursue and hold national office. Such men rise from the people through a process of self-selection, since politics is a dirty business that discourages all but the most ambitious.’ – Tom Cotton

‘Trump was always a poster boy of the selfish, egomaniacal, ignorant, bragging, cruel rich kid, whose mirror was the sleazy pages of Rupert Murdoch’s ‘New York Post.’ Trump’s oxygen was the leaked item, without which he would die the suffocating death of being shown to a bad table.’ – Richard Cohen

‘I’m learning more different ways to deal with things. You know what I mean? So, I gotta be selfish and help myself first before I can even talk to anybody. I learned that a long time ago.’ – Eddie Kingston

‘I am probably the most selfish man you will ever meet in your life. No one gets the satisfaction or the joy that I get out of seeing kids realize there is hope.’ – Jerry Lewis

‘The abortionist I worked for, he’s a very greedy man, a selfish man.’ – Norma McCorvey

‘The Clinton paradox: How could a president so intelligent, so compassionate, so public-spirited and so conscious of his place in history act in such a stupid, selfish and self-destructive manner?’ – George Stephanopoulos

‘I am less selfish. But I am more insistent on being part of the creative experience. I find I am a better mother, lover and wife when I am writing. When my daughter was small I wasn’t writing as much and I didn’t miss it.’ – Helen Slater

‘A director is a very selfish person. For him, his film is like his baby.’ – Mani Ratnam

‘I’ve come to the point in my life where I encourage young Native Americans to become much more selfish about their personal needs and wants.’ – Sherman Alexie

‘When I’m upset, everyone knows about it, and it’s a selfish trait because everyone suffers.’ – Tamara Ecclestone

‘I change my mind so much, I’m better going on my own. Shopping is a selfish activity anyway.’ – Sophie Kinsella

‘There is no room for selfish behaviour at Bayern.’ – Thomas Muller

‘As white Americans, we sometimes think it’s enough to say that we aren’t racist. But that’s selfish – that’s just being worried about ourselves.’ – Tom Izzo

‘I want some colleague to be free to come help me when I say the time has come. That’s what I’m fighting for, me. Now that sounds selfish. And if it helps somebody else, so be it.’ – Jack Kevorkian

‘I am in love with girls that are bad and naughty and badass, and a little selfish, but I like to watch from a respectful distance!’ – Dreama Walker

‘I just don’t like greedy, indifferent, selfish lawyers. And there are not that many of them.’ – Janet Reno

”Wild Hope’ just felt like such a selfish venture to me. It was a way for me to get out of my head, get some clarity on certain situations, and finally be a part of something that I was completely behind creatively and proud of.’ – Mandy Moore

‘I was kind of a selfish child, who always wanted things his way, and I’ve kind of taken that over into my relationship with the world.’ – Alan Moore

‘My son’s the most precious thing to me; he’s changed me from being selfish to selfless.’ – Ricardo Antonio Chavira

‘The last thing in the world I want to do is marry. I am too selfish, but I won’t elaborate on that.’ – Roddy Llewellyn

‘I didn’t have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.’ – Irvine Welsh

‘Selfish genes actually explain altruistic individuals, and to me that’s crystal-clear.’ – Richard Dawkins

‘When we choose to have an abortion, we must do so understanding the full ramifications of what we are doing. Anything less feels to me to be hypocritical, a selfish abnegation of reality and responsibility.’ – Ayelet Waldman

‘People on the outside see a Neymar on the pitch, but that’s not him. People see him doing tricks and dribbles and think that he is only trying to enjoy himself, that he’s selfish and only thinks about himself. But when you share a dressing room with him you realise that it’s not the case.’ – Kylian Mbappe

‘Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.’ – William Makepeace Thackeray

‘When you go out there and do the things you’re supposed to do, people view you as selfish.’ – Wilt Chamberlain

‘Despite advances achieved through objective scientific investigation, and the breaking down of long-standing fears and superstitions, the world is still not a reasonable place. Many attempts to make it so have failed because of selfish individual and national interests.’ – Jacque Fresco

‘The sad thing is most people have to check with someone before they do the things that make them happy. We’re all passing through; the least we can do is be happy, and the only way to do that is by being selfish.’ – Gene Simmons

‘In the original introduction to the word meme in the last chapter of ‘The Selfish Gene,’ I did actually use the metaphor of a ‘virus.’ So when anybody talks about something going viral on the Internet, that is exactly what a meme is, and it looks as though the word has been appropriated for a subset of that.’ – Richard Dawkins

‘Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.’ – William Cowper

‘The reason I play music is to touch people – for selfish reasons, as well. It feels good to make someone else feel something, whether it’s a kiss, a painting, good idea or it’s a song.’ – Dave Matthews

‘I was a personality before I became a person – I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.’ – Barbra Streisand

‘To have a high basketball IQ, I think you have to be unselfish, but also selfish at the same time. To be able to say, okay, I know this is going to work, so let’s do it.’ – Kyle Lowry

‘People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. It’s very selfish, but it’s understandable.’ – Mick Jagger

‘I refuse to be crude and selfish in any way.’ – DeForest Kelley

‘It is an entirely selfish decision to turn producer because I want my kind of cinema to last and flourish, and helping young filmmakers make those kind of films is the best way to do it.’ – Anurag Kashyap

‘Even Cristiano Ronaldo has developed from a selfish goalscorer into someone who likes to pass the ball.’ – Mario Kempes

‘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

‘I think I could go away tomorrow. I’ve already accomplished something. It’s such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.’ – Jim Carrey

‘In the book, America had already been weakened by bio terror plagues before waves of selfish violence took down the rest. But the real enemy was the kind of male human being who nurses fantasies of violent glory at the expense of his fellow citizens.’ – David Brin

‘Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.’ – Ralph Waldo Emerson

‘Of course, the idea of a six months’ holiday is enough to make anyone laugh at anything, but I find that besides that I was a good deal harassed and run down, and I am glad to cut off from everything and start fresh. I feel miserably selfish about it all the time.’ – Richard Harding Davis

‘The only time I think about life beyond F1 is when I contemplate becoming a dad. But there’s no way that’s going to happen while I’m still racing. To be successful in F1 you need to be very selfish in lots of ways and you’re away from home for long periods. That’s not the kind of father I want to be.’ – Jenson Button

‘Being stubborn has helped, being selfish is not a bad thing.’ – Herbie Mann

‘Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs.’ – Richard Dawkins

‘A dictator keeps control and leads. A tyrant is someone selfish who destroys.’ – Alessandra Mussolini

‘Personally I ride a bicycle, travel by train and bus and campaign tirelessly for a car taxation system that will hammer ignorant, selfish, petty, fat, spoilt, stupid car abusers into giving up their addiction and walking.’ – Giles Coren

‘An artist has to be selfish; otherwise, he’s not true to his own art.’ – Peter Frampton

‘We will not go out there and make negative music for selfish gain.’ – Sonny Sandoval

‘It’s so easy to be selfish in your 20s and not want to sacrifice.’ – Freddie Prinze, Jr.

‘I don’t actually think ‘The Selfish Gene’ is a very good title. I think that’s one of my worst titles.’ – Richard Dawkins

‘I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.’ – Charles Dudley Warner

‘You do have to be fairly selfish when you have a gift. You cannot afford to let too many outside things get in the way.’ – Sarah Brightman

‘I think Bush has a very selfish, arrogant point of view. I think he is interested in power, I think he believes his truth is the only truth, and that he will do what he wants to do despite the people.’ – Harry Belafonte

‘Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome.’ – George Santayana

‘Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it’s only when you have children that you realise you’re not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.’ – Fay Weldon

‘I just decided that I would not put my professional life on hold to raise children. I know that sounds selfish to a lot of people and I don’t know if what I’m doing is the right thing. But that’s the way I’m doing it.’ – Emmanuelle Beart

‘I am a greedy, selfish bastard. I want the fact that I existed to mean something.’ – Harry Chapin

‘We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others.’ – Mortimer Adler

‘It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure.’ – Mortimer Adler

‘In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.’ – Robert Louis Stevenson

‘It’s very selfish when I write. I’m not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I’m not even really aware of writing for myself.’ – Tanith Lee

‘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.’ – Daniel Smith

‘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.’ – Duane G. Carey

‘Because of my age and because there’s more work on the small screen. What it’s missing in quality it makes up for in quantity. From an actor’s selfish point of view.’ – Cesar Romero

‘I suppose that one of the reasons I wrote ‘In Contempt’ was because of the money. After the trial I came to realize that there were things that I needed to do if I was to protect myself and my family, so there were some selfish reasons for it.’ – Christopher Darden

‘You know, we’re really destroying ourselves because we’re really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.’ – Ralph Steadman

‘You may call me selfish if you will, conservative or reactionary, or use any other harsh adjective you see fit to apply, but an American I was born, an American I have remained all my life.’ – Henry Cabot Lodge

‘You have to be selfish to be an actor.’ – Charles Dance

‘The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man, blunted the edge of his finest sensibilities, and annihilated all his most generous impulses and sympathies.’ – Frances Wright

‘Being selfish to me means that you have to look out for yourself and you don’t have to sacrifice.’ – Herbie Mann

‘I think it all comes back to being very selfish as an artist. I mean, I really do just write and record what interests me and I do approach the stage shows in much the same way.’ – David Bowie

‘I am selfish, but that’s an attribute that all artists possess.’ – Robert Mapplethorpe

‘A man’s sentiments are generally just and right, while it is second selfish thought which makes him trim and adopt some other view. The best reforms are worked out when sentiment operates, as it does in women, with the indignation of righteousness.’ – Leland Stanford

‘It can be rebuilt if other countries with selfish interests will not meddle, as has been done in the past.’ – Bulent Ecevit

‘I address myself to the Communists, to those Communists who were prompted to join the Party by the progressive ideas of mankind and socialism, and not by selfish personal interests – let us represent our pure and just ideas by pure and just means.’ – Janos Kadar

‘Those who joined us for selfish personal reasons, for a career or other motives will be the ones to leave.’ – Janos Kadar

‘False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons.’ – Joseph Franklin Rutherford

‘People of art should never get married and have children, because it’s a selfish experience.’ – Mikhail Baryshnikov

‘I am a very selfish person.’ – Lara Flynn Boyle

‘For Astrid, no matter what challenges they go through, they are going to face each other. It’s hard for a daughter to accept that her mother is that selfish and that terrible.’ – Alison Lohman

‘That’s why charity work is very selfish at the same time, because it makes you feel good.’ – Maria Menounos

‘Men tend to be selfish.’ – Caprice Bourret

‘And books that were published in much larger numbers than Selfish, Little are hard to find. And publishers who wanted to publish my last few works have them stuck in limbo while new distribution ideas and legal issues and fears are blown away.’ – Peter Sotos

‘Whenever I release a record, it’s my record. It’s not a selfish thought. I may work all year ’round for other people. So, finally, when I come out with my own album, it should be me with the creative help of other musicians.’ – Eberhard Weber

‘On a selfish basis, I really enjoy sports and activity.’ – Alan Thicke

‘From this it follows that con-sideration for other persons or for other living beings is very vital for goodness and want of consideration for other people makes human beings selfish, regardless for other people’s good.’ – Morarji Desai

‘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.’ – Anita Brookner

‘A woman asking ‘Am I good? Am I satisfied?’ is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be.’ – Barbara Cartland

‘Humanity could only have survived and flourished if it held social and personal values that transcended the urges of the individual, embodying selfish desires – and these stem from the sense of a transcendent good.’ – Arthur Peacocke

‘Our state is in crisis. Our people are hurting. Now is the time when we all must resist the traditional, selfish call to protect your own turf at the cost of our state. It is time to leave the corner, join the sacrifice, come to the center of the room and be part of the solution.’ – Chris Christie

‘Racing is a very selfish, self-centred, self-glorifying thing. My wife’s life for 14 years was centered around me. It was all about me. It was all for my ego.’ – Greg LeMond

‘I considered becoming a priest very seriously. I wanted to travel the world. By the time I turned 16, I realized I was only in it for selfish reasons. And, more importantly, I didn’t want to sacrifice the ladies!’ – James McAvoy

‘I wanted to create a heroine that was flawed. I wanted her to be a real person. She’s selfish, she’s childish, she’s immature and because I’m doing a three-book arc I really played that up in the first book. I wanted the reader to be annoyed with her at times.’ – Amber Benson

‘I’m not a person or a selfish player, but we have to move the ball more, and we have to look further the team game, because we have enough talent to use different players.’ – Pau Gasol

‘I know that some of the spiritual beliefs that I have are that if I come from a place of love, and I try to get out of my ego and my desire to want more and be selfish in any shape or form, then whatever I’m doing is not good.’ – Amber Valletta

‘I’ve dated athletes before but it’s too tough because we have the same job, we deal with the same problems and both do a very selfish sport.’ – Tyson Gay

‘I know I’m not a selfish player. People around me know I’m not a selfish player. I do everything I can to make people around me understand I’m not a selfish player.’ – Carmelo Anthony

‘I think I was a pretty selfish athlete.’ – Melanie Roach

‘I’ve been a pretty selfish mom and a very unselfish athlete for about three years now and it’s time to put my family first. It’s probably time to move on.’ – Melanie Roach

‘I find that the crazy narcissists, the selfish loons are often the most fun to be around, weirdly.’ – Paul Giamatti

‘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 Bure

‘Strikers are egotists, selfish. We have to be.’ – Romario

‘The selfish thing about an athlete is you always look at the side of things where you say I could’ve done that better.’ – Andy Roddick

‘I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses – being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.’ – K. D. Lang

‘I would not be a good mother. I mean, I love being an aunt to my niece and nephew. And I used to want to, like, adopt 10 kids – because I had friends who were adopted, and I thought that was the coolest thing, to be chosen. But again, my job is too selfish.’ – Kelly Clarkson

‘I was really conflicted. I had always planned to help the world. Instead, I was going to become an actress? That seemed like such a selfish thing to do.’ – Maria Bello

‘It is the liberal philosophy, not the conservative one, that views humans as selfish automatons.’ – Allen West

‘I think I’m still figuring out how to be a little less selfish.’ – Anthony Kiedis

‘Most of the time, the things that really change the world exist for something fundamentally selfish and then the world-changing ends up being a side-effect of that.’ – Andrew Mason

‘Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.’ – E. O. Wilson

‘I’m a selfish, little pig of a man.’ – Lewis Black

‘You’ll be a good parent when you’re ready to no longer be selfish. Until I was about 35, it was all about me. I look back and I’m astonished at how I lived my life – it was totally self-involved.’ – Lauren Holly

‘Now is the one time in my life I can be 100% selfish. I’m not married; I don’t have kids; I can focus on my career.’ – Kim Kardashian

‘It takes a lot of selfish time to make music.’ – Gwen Stefani

‘I’ve gotten very good at detaching whenever I have to go away for three months, which I realize is hard on friends and kind of selfish.’ – Ashley Greene

‘My mom can’t defend herself to the world. She is such an amazing woman, with such an open heart. It’s a real hard line, and I crossed it. I took everyone’s life story and assumed it would be a great thing to put on screen. I was being selfish and I feel so horrible about it. I feel so guilty.’ – Nikki Reed

‘I’ve never heard my dad say a bad word about anybody. He always keeps his emotions in check and is a true gentleman. I was taught that losing it was indulgent, a selfish act.’ – Hugh Jackman

‘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.’ – Dennis Prager

‘When it comes to my racing career I’m very driven and very selfish. People who are around me at races will know that I’m a different person here than in my personal life. I completely blank people at races. I need to be focused. I’m rude.’ – Jenson Button

‘The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we’re so busy now.’ – Phil McGraw

‘I’m just selfish. I have to be for what I do.’ – Shia LaBeouf

‘I always felt too young and selfish to have children of my own.’ – Natasha Richardson

‘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.’ – Eddie Van Halen

‘Childlessness doesn’t make people selfish; selfishness makes people selfish.’ – Elizabeth Gilbert

‘I know I have a successful career, a successful life. If I sit and say, ‘Look, I have a comfortable life,’ and I… just think about myself, I don’t think that would be fair. That would be very selfish. Because everything I do in my life is to benefit my people.’ – George Weah

‘I like working with kids because I enjoy seeing the looks on their faces and, it’s kind of selfish, I want a future audience.’ – Joshua Bell

‘I’m not a selfish actor. I believe that it’s a team effort. You’re not in a scene by yourself.’ – Taraji P. Henson

‘Acting can be very selfish and all-consuming.’ – Alessandro Nivola

‘We’ve been trained since kindergarten: Be nice, be kind, share, put on a smile. So we’re conditioned to squash our natural selfish instincts, and that’s the right thing for society.’ – Bryan Cranston

‘Sometimes I make very selfish choices; like I did ‘Once Upon A Time’ for my inner 8-year-old and my hypothetical future child. I’ve done some movies because I would regret them if I didn’t, but other projects I’ve done because they’ve scared me or if I felt I needed to do a big romantic comedy to help me professionally.’ – Ginnifer Goodwin

‘I think my heart is quite selfish. If I followed my heart, I would not be a good person. But I have moral principles. I have to sit down and reflect.’ – Jo Nesbo

‘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.’ – Anna Deavere Smith

‘I look back on my life and have to face the fact that I have been narcissistic and selfish.’ – James Woods

‘I’ve run out of mates that haven’t had a baby now. It does make me think of my parents having a family so young and the fact that I’ve been able to avoid it for so long. It does make me a feel a little bit selfish.’ – Nick Moran

‘I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I’m just marketing my work!’ – Abbas Kiarostami

‘My work requires acting at its most committed – it demands actors of enormous resilience, but also intelligence and wit. It doesn’t work for narcissistic or selfish actors.’ – Mike Leigh

‘Oh, I think I’ve been entirely selfish with my career. I’ve done what I wanted to do, and not put myself out for anyone else particularly.’ – Jim Broadbent

‘I think we all have a selfish gene which rises to the top, sometimes. But then we’re also all capable of a sudden magnanimity.’ – Jim Broadbent

‘I can say with a solid degree of authority that I am a selfish person. I spontaneously forget the names of more people than not, unless I want to make out with them. I will take the last square of toilet paper off the roll without thinking twice. I tip taxi drivers so poorly I’m amazed none of them have run over my foot while speeding off.’ – Sloane Crosley

‘My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish, or merely an act of resignation in the face of overwhelming problems that beset the world. It is neither. I have found that each garden is just what Voltaire proposed in Candide: a microcosm of a just and beautiful society.’ – Andrew Weil

‘My feelings about my mortality are less selfish than they used to be. I used to affect a cavalier attitude to death; now I see it from my son’s perspective.’ – Rufus Sewell

‘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.’ – Denis O’Hare

‘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

‘I want to show the world that you do have some artists that are ready to go to the next level, and instead of being selfish with their career they’ll open up the door to other people. I’m in a position to open up the door to help other people do what I do.’ – Raekwon

‘For myself, suffering doesnt make me a good person; it makes me selfish. Why do we think that people who have less should find it edifying?’ – Katherine Boo

‘In Europe first and now in America, elected men have taken it upon themselves to indebt their people to create an atmosphere of dependency. And why? For their own selfish need to increase their own personal power.’ – Pope Francis

‘To be honest, I think I’d become a bit selfish with memories of my father. I wanted to hug them close to me.’ – Jennifer Grant

‘Americans are less selfish than some of our politicians believe and will respond with reason and resilience to passionate clarity.’ – Jennifer Egan

‘I worry sometimes that I’m a bit moralistic; always writing about men who are learning to grow up, not be so self-absorbed, selfish or badly behaved. I wonder if that’s dull and liberal and wimpy? I should probably write something that celebrates wickedness.’ – David Nicholls

‘Love exercised while duty is neglected will make children headstrong, willful, perverse, selfish, and disobedient. If stern duty is left to stand alone without love to soften and win, it will have a similar result. Duty and love must be blended in order that children may be properly disciplined.’ – Ellen G. White

‘I think being a mum gives you extra qualities. I’m more feisty, fiercely protective and less selfish. The main trait I want to instill in my kids is kindness. I think it’s the most important thing. If you’re kind, you’ll go a long way.’ – Rebecca Ferguson

‘The problem is that music is selfish in that you need to make it for yourself, so that you can give it away, and those two things don’t jive. I needed to find the right reason to play that had the magic and mystery and excitement that made me want to play in the first place.’ – Josh Homme

‘I’m amazed, as quirky, individual and selfish as most of us are, that anyone stays married for long.’ – Mark McKinnon

‘When I do have time to work on music, I’m kind of selfish, and would rather work on my own stuff than someone else’s.’ – Moby

‘People think if you look after yourself you’re being selfish, you know.’ – Gisele Bundchen

‘I write from my life, my experience. I’m selfish that way.’ – Pink

‘Tragedies make you realize how selfish you are.’ – Tony Dorsett

‘Good mothers make all kinds of choices. Making a decision that might sound selfish does not make a woman a bad mother.’ – Jada Pinkett Smith

‘To be stupid and selfish and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness. Though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless.’ – Stefan Sagmeister

‘My hunch is that people often affiliate with causes online for selfish and narcissistic purposes. Sometimes, it may be as simple as trying to impress their online friends, and once you have fashioned that identity, there is very little reason to actually do anything else.’ – Evgeny Morozov

‘Science is a victim of its own reductive metaphors: ‘Big Bang,’ ‘selfish gene’ and so on. Richard Dawkins’ selfish gene fitted with the Thatcherite politics of the time. It should actually be the ‘altruistic gene,’ but he’d never have sold as many books with a title like that.’ – Charles Jencks

‘Liberals have difficulty understanding the Tea Party because they think it is a bunch of selfish racists. But I think the Tea Party is driven in large part by concerns about fairness.’ – Jonathan Haidt

‘I like to delude myself that I’m in the old-Hollywood mode. I just tailor my clothes well and try to keep my skin clear. While it would be great to work out an hour a day, there is something inherently sort of selfish about it. I can’t do it.’ – Tina Fey

‘I was brought up not to be selfish or self-centered. So if you play somebody who isn’t so lovable, you can play that person and no one will turn on you. I don’t want to play that person in real life. Because then people won’t like me so much.’ – Julie Kavner

‘I’ve learnt an enormous amount from my children. Mostly that my agenda isn’t the most important thing in the world. For a while, I was trying to squeeze them into my life. And it was such torment! It makes you realise how selfish you are.’ – Toby Stephens

‘The worst thing people ever say is that ‘I can’t afford to have kids!’ It’s selfish, and what infuriates me is when people say they can’t do stuff they like go on holidays and buy cars when they have kids. You can – you find the money, you’ve just got to work harder for it.’ – Tamer Hassan

‘I started my Twitter account for selfish reasons: I wanted to have a place to post updates on my book signing tour and stuff like that. I never realized that I’d have so much fun tweeting. It’s become the deleted scenes for my DVD of columns and podcasts.’ – Bill Simmons

‘I want to be an NBA all-star and help my team win. That’s what it’s all about, is winning. I’m a competitor… People said a lot about me being selfish and stuff like that. Getting into the league, I can’t wait to shut that down. I’m a guy who wants to play and to win and love my teammates.’ – Shabazz Muhammad

‘We’re often ashamed of asking for so much help because it seems selfish or petty or narcissistic, but I think, if there’s a God – and I believe there is – that God is there to help. That’s what God’s job is.’ – Anne Lamott

‘Anorexia taught me to love life and to realise that starving yourself to death is a bloody waste of time. It’s awful, and it hurts so many people around you. It’s a terribly selfish thing to do.’ – Celia Imrie

‘The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To life a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You know, help others. But that’s really the essence of the Christian faith.’ – Joel Osteen

‘I always said if it gets to a point where I really want a child, I would adopt; kids are amazing, so I’m getting the selfish stuff out of my system so when I have them I can say, ‘Go, run. I have plenty of money, go play.” – Sandra Bullock

‘I’m a selfish person, and I’m going onstage to have a good time, and I’d love if you want to be a part of it. So if people don’t get it, they’re wrong. I think they’re wrong, and I think they either don’t want to have a good time or they just don’t like my style.’ – Chris D’Elia

‘My co-stars call me selfish. They say, ‘You are only interested in yourself and what you are only interested is yourself and what you are doing in front of the camera.’ I reply, ‘I can’t help it; it’s what got me where I am.” – Kareena Kapoor Khan

‘Creativity is very selfish. Scandalously so, in fact.’ – Athol Fugard

‘My life, in some ways, has been a half-measure. I didn’t commit myself all the way to my marriage and family, because I would have given up more. And I didn’t go all the way with just being completely selfish. I always wonder where my career would be if I was more selfish.’ – Alec Baldwin

‘I’d make a good friend, not mother. I’m too selfish. I think a lot of mothers are selfish and they end up having children, but I don’t want to put some small tiny person through that.’ – Tracey Emin

‘Business is a very beautiful mechanism to solve problems, but we never use it for that purpose. We only use it to make money. It satisfies our selfish interest but not our collective interest.’ – Muhammad Yunus

‘Wherever I live, if there isn’t a restaurant I want to go to of a certain type, then I open it. That’s all. For selfish reasons.’ – Michael Caine

‘Ray Leonard is more the family man, kind of quiet. He’s not as outgoing as Sugar Ray Leonard. Sugar Ray Leonard was very determined, very focused, very outgoing and very selfish, if you will. There are two different individuals there.’ – Sugar Ray Leonard

‘A lot of comedians are selfish.’ – J. B. Smoove

‘I think anyone who suffers from chronic pain can agree with this – you feel this great significance. What I wanted to capture was that significance, and as a matter of fact I think that’s one of the lyrics on ‘Conflict,’ on the split. I touch on the significance, and really it’s a selfish thing, in an offbeat way.’ – Phil Anselmo

‘There are selves too big for one person to contain. You cannot call them selfish. There is nothing -ish about such selves. They are the self, as it were, itself.’ – P. J. O’Rourke

‘I’m such a strong believer in making yourself happy. Almost in a selfish way. There are a lot of trends, and obviously you can get swept up into them. But I feel like if you just write songs you love, it can have trap beats in it or whatever’s going on in the moment, but you don’t stop loving songs.’ – Dev Hynes

‘I felt we must separate political responsibility. The Dalai Lama should not carry that burden. So that is my selfish reason – to protect the old Dalai Lama tradition. It is safer without political involvement.’ – Dalai Lama

‘Going out at night and having a fabulous social life takes a lot out of you, and I don’t know if I have that much to give, honestly. I would rather give that time to my kids or spend that time reading a book or watching a film. I am selfish and lazy.’ – Kajol

‘Many churches of all persuasions are hiring research agencies to poll neighborhoods, asking what kind of church they prefer. Then the local churches design themselves to fit the desires of the people. True faith in God that demands selflessness is being replaced by trendy religion that serves the selfish.’ – Billy Graham

‘I remember walking down the aisle, and I got down on my knees as a person who is so selfish, but when I rose back up the Lord had become the Master of my life.’ – Tim Scott

‘As ecstatic as I was at the birth of my daughter, I felt selfish bringing her, and later my son, into our screwed-up world.’ – Jill Greenberg

‘Learning to not be selfish is what has changed in me the most since being married.’ – Blake Shelton

‘Millennials are often portrayed as apathetic, disinterested, tuned out and selfish. None of those adjectives describe the Millennials I’ve been privileged to meet and work with.’ – Chelsea Clinton

‘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.’ – Steve Wynn

‘I have a pet peeve about bands that don’t play their hits. I think it’s kind of selfish.’ – Art Alexakis

‘I want to speak directly to the audience, to say, ‘I’m like you – I’m frustrated, I’m not an expert, I don’t have a manual on parenting, I make mistakes, I’m selfish too.” – Bernie Mac

‘We are all prone to be a little selfish, a little lazy.’ – Gordon B. Hinckley

‘We found evolution will punish you if you’re selfish and mean. For a short time and against a specific set of opponents, some selfish organisms may come out ahead. But selfishness isn’t evolutionarily sustainable.’ – Chris Adami

‘The great thing coming from sports is you understand the concept of a team. It leaves no room for being selfish, and that’s something I picked up from home.’ – Michael Strahan

‘I’m a really selfish person. But I would do anything for my friends.’ – Jami Attenberg

‘Technically I have siblings, but they are quite a bit older than me – I was the accident – so I have the only-child syndrome going on. I’m a little more selfish, a little more independent, a little closed. I do wish I were softer. I wish I were able to form relationships better.’ – Carrie Underwood

‘I think it’s really rare to see women on television who are brilliant, selfish, vain, fallible – and I feel like I have all those capacities in myself, so it’s good to see people in the media representing all of those things.’ – Kerry Bishe

‘Everybody says, ‘When you have kids, you really get away from yourself.’ But really, it’s the most selfish thing I’ve ever done. It’s like, Okay, I’m going to create unconditional love for myself, and I’m going to need it and want it and ask for it every day, and I’m going to get it.’ – Brooke Shields

‘I don’t know if it’s ever OK for someone to be selfish. Perhaps there’s a time and place to be self-centered, but I think selfish never wins the race.’ – Jessica Capshaw

‘I think what’s most fun is playing someone who’s sort of selfish and in a lot of ways unlikeable, but there’s this really big heart underneath it that you get little glimpses of.’ – David Walton

‘I’m not selfish at all.’ – Judy Gold

‘Acting is not terribly important work, and I have always felt a bit of guilt about pursuing something that is so selfish. I love doing it, but it is never something that feels like it’s going to change or save the world.’ – Jason Alexander

‘My mum was critical in getting me to recognise very early on that although what I was doing was pretty serious, quite selfish, and probably to most people pretty obsessive, there actually was more to life than running quickly twice round a track.’ – Sebastian Coe

‘Man is essentially a selfish creature. The differences in the degree with which this developed are infinite.’ – Samuel Freeman Miller

‘Be incredibly, ruthlessly selfish with your equity.’ – Douglas Leone

‘When somebody’s calling you ‘Mommy,’ it’s a wonderful thing. But also to have that responsibility and to know that you and your partner have this little thing that’s totally relying on you – and it made me, I suppose, less selfish. Not that I was mega-selfish to start with, but it’s lovely having that responsibility. It’s scary.’ – Phyllis Logan

‘Fragrance is a bit of a selfish gift because it’s comforting when you’re near someone and you recognize their smell.’ – Blake Lively

‘If you have a mental model that says big corporations are fundamentally greedy and selfish and exploitative, you don’t really want to have an exception to that model. It’s much easier to say, ‘Yes, Whole Foods has been corrupted.” – John Mackey

‘You have to understand: the narrative that people have about business and capitalism is that they are fundamentally selfish, greedy, and exploitative. Of course, I don’t agree with that narrative.’ – John Mackey

‘Every forward is selfish, and any forward who tells you he is not selfish is a liar.’ – Luis Suarez

‘I can’t stand Tiger Woods. He is the most selfish man I’ve ever played golf with.’ – Stewart Rahr

‘If you’re an actor, and you’re selfish and not strong, it’s difficult to maintain a good personal life or a solid career, and I was selfish and had a lot of anger that went way back.’ – Seymour Cassel

‘I knew a homeless guy who’d give all the copper coins that people gave him to charity. So I think there’s something that makes us want to give. For me, it’s quite a selfish luxury: you feel enlivened, deepened and self-nurtured by generosity.’ – Tamsin Greig

‘I have my opinions about the way my father was. But they are my opinions, not necessarily the truth, and they are certainly not the whole spectrum of what this man was going through. It’s my young, selfish interpretation of that person.’ – Dennis Christopher

‘I never got caught up in playing for history, seeing how many majors I could win, or rewriting the record books. Those are selfish objectives, and the guy who chokes usually does so because he dwells on what it all means to him. I was only worried about my family. And although I had my share of failures, it was never because I choked.’ – Billy Casper

‘I guess you could say that no matter what the characters are enduring, I try to make them retain their humanity. Their self-absorbed, grouchy, selfish, aggravating humanity.’ – MaryJanice Davidson

‘I’m not thinking when I’m writing, ‘How’s this going to read?’ Or, ‘What percentage of the audience is going to stay with me?’ The thing itself is what gives me pleasure. Sometimes stuff just falls onto the page so beautifully and happily that it’s deeply satisfying. It’s selfish!’ – Jim Crace

‘As my family saw them, men were untrustworthy, weak, and selfish. Our mother taught us to get along without them, to get along without much of anything, and to live well and have fun anyway.’ – Kate Christensen

‘Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players.’ – Yanis Varoufakis

‘Purely altruistic behavior is pretty much impossible because of the selfish pleasures we derive from it.’ – Nicholas Kristof

‘God’s love is so great that He loves even the proud, the selfish, the arrogant, and the wicked.’ – Dieter F. Uchtdorf

‘My cares come from a very selfish place ’cause in reality I’m young, and I haven’t had the experience to be mature yet.’ – Vince Staples

‘Catwoman isn’t a ‘joiner.’ She’s a solo operator. She isn’t naturally heroic; she’s fairly selfish.’ – Ann Nocenti

‘I remember sitting on a bench in New York and sobbing and realising that my ambition to be a singer was making me selfish – I was a mother with two children, and I needed a backup plan.’ – Rebecca Ferguson

‘Golf is so selfish – it’s so much about how do we get better and get to the next level.’ – Jason Day

‘I’ve never really understood the criticism that climbing is inherently selfish, since it could equally be argued about virtually any other hobby or sport. Is gardening selfish?’ – Alex Honnold

‘I am a great motivator. I have struggles in my life, and the only way I can push through them is to motivate others. It really is quite selfish.’ – Matt Cohen

‘Each man seeks his own interest, not the general interest. Let his own selfish interests be touched, and all concord is at an end.’ – Sabine Baring-Gould

‘My favorite part about Mare Barrow is her almost selfish survival instinct, as well as her increasingly gray morality. Her character arc in ‘Glass Sword’ is a lot deeper and more emotional than before, so I’m glad I got to write this sequel and that people want to read it.’ – Victoria Aveyard

‘Politicians in Washington work in a small, sheltered world where they lurch from crisis to crisis that they create, nurture and use as ideological triggers in their selfish pursuit of re-election.’ – Mike Barnicle

‘Exploiters and manipulators have always used religion self-righteously to further their own selfish ends.’ – Tariq Ali

‘In documentary filmmaking, there’s a tradition of telling stories about victims. We often do that from a very patronizing place, but mostly we do it from a very selfish place, to reassure ourselves that our lives are in sympathy and solidarity with the victims.’ – Joshua Oppenheimer

‘Every woman I have known has actually deepened my spiritual awareness. Even if I have been a selfish man and treated them badly… There were two women, I won’t name them, who had a powerful religious effect on me. The ancient idea of a muse is there.’ – John Tavener

‘There is no man at once so unselfish and selfish as a man in love.’ – Thomas Bailey Aldrich

”Party Up’ is like ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ crossed with ‘House Party.’ It’s basically about this kid, my character, who’s this smooth, intelligent kid who’s petitioning to throw this big end-of-the-year-bash house party, and so he goes and manipulating different people and ruining lives. He somewhat has a selfish heart, but he’s a nice guy.’ – Elijah Kelley

‘Eventually, I went to college to study psychology, but I was getting more and more TV roles, so I thought, ‘You know? It’s kind of like psychology, but a little more selfish.’ I took a break from school, moved to L.A., and never went back.’ – Malin Akerman

‘Congressional opposition to immigration reform or emergency funds doesn’t stem from any philosophical objections or differences of principle. It stems from a calculated, petty, selfish rejection of anything Obama proposes.’ – Donna Brazile

‘I wish to spend my life’s twilight being just who I am. I could claim noble reasons as coming out in order to move gay rights forward, but I must admit it is for far more selfish reasons. Now is the time I wish to find someone, and I do not desire to force any potential partner to live a life of extreme discretion with me.’ – David Ogden Stiers

‘There’s a side to you as an actor, a selfish side, that wants to go on and play different roles.’ – Katee Sackhoff

‘My first responsibility is to be selfish for New Jersey.’ – Rodney Frelinghuysen

‘You get to a point where you get tired of being stupid and selfish and not being honest with yourself.’ – Alex Rodriguez

‘The men and women I work with in law enforcement deal with the consequences of the Democrats’ selfish policies to encourage reliance on government, dependency instead of independence, and victimhood instead of the promise of earning your way to financial security.’ – David A. Clarke, Jr.

‘We have ourselves begun to put our house in order by banning some experiments that may contain a risk for mankind. We would like to see society take a similar attitude, abandoning selfish practices that are dangerous for society itself.’ – Renato Dulbecco

‘Things change; your priorities change in life. So I’d never think of riding 100 miles on Christmas Day now, because I’ve got two kids, and it’s selfish.’ – Bradley Wiggins

‘As an athlete, you have to become quite selfish with your time and your body and your training.’ – Katarina Johnson-Thompson

‘Marriage is a mystery, and part of it is just being kind to each other, not being selfish.’ – Aisha Tyler

‘I’ve always thought that people who left a great deal of money in their will never enjoyed the great honor and privilege and heart-rendering feeling of giving to others during their lifetime, because they were too selfish to give to others while they were alive, so they made sure they were dead and couldn’t use it anymore.’ – Jon Huntsman, Sr.

‘Is there any practice less selfish, any time less wasted than preparing something nourishing and delicious for the people you love?’ – Michael Pollan

‘Some men spend their lives watching bees and ants, noting down the habits of these insects; my pleasure is to watch the human mind, noting how unselfish instincts rise to the surface and sink back again, making way for selfish instincts, each equally necessary, for the world would perish were it to become entirely selfish or entirely unselfish.’ – George A. Moore

‘I’m very grateful for what I have. I’m old enough that I can mort out at any minute without any sense of regret at all. That’s not true. I might look back and think I wish I hadn’t been so selfish when my kids were smaller. But I’m not overwhelmed by regret.’ – Thomas McGuane

‘It’s very true that you can be both selfless and selfish at the same time. What we tend towards, particularly in filmmaking, is this binary sort of, ‘This is a good guy, this is a bad guy.’ And I quite like the fact that life is a bit more complex than that.’ – Hugh Grant

‘The whole brunt of the media and the government is to encourage people to be highly competitive and totally selfish and uncaring of others.’ – Harold Pinter

‘In the past, I’ve been a selfish player. I’ll definitely admit that.’ – Josh Gordon

‘I’m a good uncle, but I’m not a great caretaker. I feel oftentimes pretty selfish within the relationships I have with my siblings and, historically, with what I give back versus what I’ve taken over the years.’ – Nick Kroll

‘When a father puts in long hours at work, he’s praised for being dedicated and ambitious. But when a mother stays late at the office, she’s sometimes accused of being selfish, neglecting her kids.’ – Michelle Obama

‘I’m not selfish. I am where I am because I have worked very hard and have always done my job.’ – Pablo Sandoval

‘I’m just a totally selfish worker bee creating my little mini projects.’ – David Shields

‘Sharing bad news with strangers is most certainly a selfish act.’ – Mike Gallagher

‘Patience is key. You can’t get selfish, and that’s the number one thing I’ve learned at WWE. The world continues to go round, and I just knew – given the right opportunity and the right moment – that the world would know I was good, but now the world knows that I’m great.’ – Sasha Banks

‘The customer is a remarkably selfish person: He takes the relationship to where the execution is in his favor.’ – Azim Premji

‘I see my share of loons. I just performed with someone who had a meltdown on stage. He needed focus, and he was ‘stealing it’ and just being crazy and selfish and childish and having a great time doing it – to the detriment of everybody else.’ – Scott Adsit

‘My personal philosophy is that people should be extremely selfish for the first half of their life and extremely unselfish for the second half because then they can do the most good.’ – Walter O’Brien

‘All kids are selfish. I wanted to do homework and do my thing and call my agent. My mother’s needs weren’t in my mind at that moment.’ – Laura Dern

‘In general, when it comes to AI, many of us subconsciously cling to the selfish notion that humanity is the endpoint of evolution.’ – Steve Jurvetson

‘I’m very selfish in that I make music for myself, not for other people; I kind of only think about other people afterwards when it’s out.’ – Charli XCX

‘I’ve had self-esteem issues for a really, really long time. Plenty of people think I’m ugly, and plenty of people don’t. But there’s a moment when I’m modeling where I forget about my self-esteem issues and focus on what the photographer’s telling me – and I feel pretty. And in that sense, it’s selfish.’ – Paris Jackson

‘When you finally have kids, you realize how selfish you are. I think we are naturally selfish beings. When you have kids, that can kind of be a shock at first. I think just trying to make time for yourself is very hard. Especially now that I have 3, finding that time can be very difficult.’ – Kristin Cavallari

‘The primary occupational hazard of blogging is this: it’s easier when you yourself take on some of the traits of insanity. It’s a job that requires the doer to be selfish, self-absorbed, and superficial.’ – Ryan Holiday

‘To restore our public schools, we must put an end to the selfish agenda of the union bosses.’ – Bruce Rauner

‘As long as everything is happy at home, I can be totally selfish at work.’ – Darcey Bussell

‘Some people are selfish in all of their relationships. Those people are called sociopaths.’ – Adam Grant

‘I don’t want to sacrifice my life, as I feel that I’m still very selfish and still want to pursue my dreams.’ – Joanna Krupa

‘Selfish, arrogant people drive me crazy.’ – Joanna Krupa

‘There is some pretty powerful self-interest in wanting a future that is not just running storm-to-storm. The argument that I make is not that we aren’t competitive and selfish and greedy. We are. We’re all of these things. We’re complicated, competitive, greedy and nasty, and kind and generous and compassionate.’ – Naomi Klein

‘That’s the trick of free market economic theory: it doesn’t just ask you to only be selfish and not care about others. It tells you that by being selfish, you are helping others. And, in fact, by trying to directly help others, you will hurt them.’ – Naomi Klein

‘It’s not a selfish desire, growing a beard, but maybe I need to not have the beard, and it’ll bring us more wins.’ – Eric Weddle

‘I love Michael Bay movies. I don’t think I’d be selling out if I did one. I happen to like his movies. I think selling out is doing something you don’t believe in, and you’re doing it for a selfish purpose.’ – Max Minghella

‘I think Bolano had a generosity about him that was unique. He seemed to include so many people in the circle of his adventures, whereas I felt like I was pretty selfish.’ – Sam Shepard

‘You can’t be faulted for being selfish if you’re going to get better because of it.’ – Jerry Lewis

‘I am very selfish when it comes to choosing a film. There is no strategy as such; I take up anything that gives me a kick.’ – Disha Patani

‘I am very selfish when it comes to work, and I only care about work.’ – Disha Patani

‘When you work together in a creative way, you have to be less selfish about your ideas and learn to let both parties feel valued. Of course, that’s also a really great quality to have in a relationship, too.’ – St. Lucia

‘You can’t be 100 percent selfish when you’re working with somebody else.’ – St. Lucia

‘The best leaders don’t set timid and selfish goals but instead set bold targets that may be harder to achieve.’ – Carles Puigdemont

‘You live this life being selfish, you’re not going to enjoy it like you will when you open your heart and your home up.’ – Markwayne Mullin

‘My favourite moments at Dreamforce are when people come up and thank me randomly. It’s a selfish time for me, as I get lots of positive feedback.’ – Parker Harris

‘I suppose I’ve been selfish in the past and put my career first. But priorities change.’ – Ray Fearon

‘It’s a dream when some people think that once you give your life to God, all of a sudden things are perfect. That’s not the case. We live in a world that’s broken, where there’s disease, where people are selfish. The foundation of your faith helps you know how to put that in proper perspective.’ – Danny Gokey

‘A lot of times, people think of selfish, and they think of offense, but you can be selfish on the defensive end of the floor, too. If you don’t uphold your end of our schemes and your responsibilities within those schemes, then you’re being just as selfish.’ – J. B. Bickerstaff

‘I don’t like it when bands don’t want to play that one song everybody wants to hear. I think that’s cheating everybody, and I think it’s selfish of an artist to do that.’ – David Bryan

‘Why would we want to do an experimental album? That’s just selfish.’ – David Bryan

‘I have never played cricket for selfish reasons like scoring 800-900 runs on flat tracks to make a comeback.’ – Gautam Gambhir

‘For me, it is sad when I listen to this, that one player must be more selfish to reach the top level.’ – Antonio Conte

‘In my team, I don’t want selfish players. I prefer to lose a game than have selfish players. I don’t want that in my club. Never.’ – Antonio Conte

‘I don’t think a player like Messi is a selfish player.’ – Antonio Conte

‘Frankly, Indian women inherit this collective cultural unconscious – this sense of guilt, shame, and dishonour. I think Indian girls need to become shameless and a little selfish, too.’ – Swara Bhaskar

‘I am a greedy, selfish actor, and for me, my role is important.’ – Swara Bhaskar

‘There is a difference between being self-interested and being selfish. I will never be selfish.’ – Abbie Hoffman

‘All of us would like to have our children and their grandchildren grow up with at least the level of prosperity that we had. In the U.S., we seem to be very selfish because the older generation is not making the sacrifices.’ – Henry Paulson

‘The dilemma I have is that everything I do at work is all about me, and at what point is that selfish? I’m just talking and singing about myself, or I’m standing on a stage and hoping that everybody likes me. Obviously, it’s also about the music and feeling and connecting; I know it’s deeper than that.’ – Sharon Van Etten

‘When I can write a song in a way where I feel like other people can relate to it, and I can take it past being cathartic just for me, that’s when I know I can share it. Otherwise, I’d just feel like it’s selfish.’ – Sharon Van Etten

‘I’m very independent, probably quite selfish, and like being able to disappear at the drop of a hat without having to explain myself – most men would find that a pain, wouldn’t they?’ – Maxine Peake

‘At the end of the day, I live in Silicon Valley and L.A., and for selfish reasons, I’d love to have Los Angeles and San Francisco connected with the Hyperloop.’ – Shervin Pishevar

‘I love real women that don’t have to be saints, who can be selfish and act out against their parents or like the wrong guy, because that’s life. That’s my life, at least.’ – Julie Plec

‘It might be a selfish choice, but I find it quite difficult to design for individuals and prefer the distance of larger schemes. It’s the same reason why, as a designer, I don’t do wedding dresses.’ – John Rocha

‘I hope that I am, in a way, helping and touching other people with my music, and being a musician and having this as a job gives me a sense of purpose beyond my own selfish needs.’ – Jack Garratt

‘We can all be self-destructive. I make terrible choices all the time. It’s uncomfortable to admit that you did a thing that was selfish and that you knew would hurt someone else.’ – Clare-Hope Ashitey

‘What was so brilliant about ‘Girls’ was that they allowed their characters to be ludicrous and selfish and faulted but didn’t shy away from a deeper psychological foundation for that neuroses.’ – Corey Stoll

‘I think Jughead’s a selfish character. I think he really is.’ – Cole Sprouse

‘I think Jughead is a pretty trustworthy character – not only a narrator. I think he might be selfish, but he’s obviously selfish, and that is comforting to me. I also think he has a really strong moral fiber and a propensity for good, and he tries to cultivate that in other people.’ – Cole Sprouse

‘I work very hard, but I also really enjoy time with my family as well. So I take everything as it comes, but I really am very selfish about my family time.’ – Katie Holmes

‘It’s amazing, all of the ways that having kids has changed me. I’m a much less selfish person because of them, and compared to who I was before, my patience level seems infinite.’ – Scott Foley

‘Some books inspire one to read, and some inspire one to write; for selfish reasons, I’m always looking for the latter.’ – Andrew Sean Greer

‘Every action that we take has some motivation of either being selfish or altruistic. All that adds up.’ – Adam Yauch

‘I cannot accept this country being destroyed by selfish people who only think about themselves.’ – Mahathir Mohamad

‘For me, to say I want to go to sleep and retire and prepare for my afterlife, I think that is very selfish.’ – Mahathir Mohamad

‘Even cynical, selfish people will realize, one way or the other, that it’s not in their self-interest to act in self-destructive ways.’ – David Grinspoon

‘Players need to come in and not take the opportunity for granted and really work hard at the game and make sure it’s a team game, it’s not a selfish thing. If players have those qualities – they work hard, they’re selfless, they put the team before them – I have no issues with them.’ – Anne Donovan

‘Chaos does not unify. Chaos only serves the most extreme elements of society that seek to destabilize any semblance of order to fulfill their selfish lust for power.’ – Daniel Lubetzky

‘I think it is selfish for me to try to frame Me Too as something that I own. It is bigger than me and bigger than Alyssa Milano. Neither one of us should be centered in this work. This is about survivors.’ – Tarana Burke

‘The Franco-German tandem at the core of post-war European integration has become lopsided. Relations between Berlin and Paris are unusually poor, with some French politicians decrying the ‘selfish intransigence’ in the euro crisis of Germany’s chancellor, Angela Merkel.’ – Zanny Minton Beddoes

‘I pretty much started going more towards the singing route when I came out with the song ‘Selfish.” – PnB Rock

‘I can give you a ‘Selfish,’ and I can still come give you, like, a ‘Jealous.’ I’m coming from the streets, but I can still give you personal situations and relationships that I’ve been in with females. You just never know; I’m just coming different.’ – PnB Rock

‘Let’s be real: dads get a bad rap in the media. We’re talking Vanilla Ice’s ‘Ninja Rap’ bad. More often than not, they’re either pop lockin’ Soul Train-style after learning they aren’t the father, or they’re selfish man-children who have more toys than brain cells.’ – Phoebe Robinson

‘All saints are selfish.’ – Lorne Michaels

‘It’s true that being in an individual sport, you have to be a little bit selfish.’ – Victoria Azarenka

‘At first, learning to bake was purely selfish, but I quickly learned I can’t eat every batch of cookies myself, so I would bake and eat what I wanted and give the rest away. I fell in love with feeding others as much as I loved eating sweets myself.’ – Christina Tosi

‘If we are ever going to rescue our nation from selfish entitlement, political correctness, and collectivism, we must start sending citizen-statesman warriors to fight for us in Washington, and I believe Col. Maness will do just that.’ – Tim Kennedy

‘I was never selfish, and I see a lot of things. If I see a person in a better position than me, I will give him my assist. This is also my way of thinking, and I expect that from my team-mate for me.’ – Dusan Tadic

‘To call myself a fighter is to be selfish at times. It makes me resent my opponent. That’s motivation I can tap into.’ – Cat Zingano

‘It would be selfish to believe that we are the only intelligent life in the universe.’ – Kerli

‘Most female artists – to do what you have to do and to be as honest as you have to be, to be as selfish as you have to be, as tunnel-visioned as you have to be to make art, not entertainment – you can’t compromise, really.’ – Viv Albertine

‘I sometimes will be very shut off from everybody. I can be very pettish and sometimes not available when you need me. At those times, I’m very selfish and worrying about my own problems.’ – Burt Reynolds

‘Maybe I was blessed that my main drive was purely selfish. I needed to make something, make my life better, wider, have poetry in my life, have something that gives me hope on an everyday basis. That was my main drive all along, really.’ – Yasmine Hamdan

‘I’m not a selfish guy.’ – Romelu Lukaku

‘We’re contemptuous of ‘distracted’ working mothers. We’re contemptuous of ‘selfish’ rich mothers. We’re contemptuous of mothers who have no choice but to work, but also of mothers who don’t need to work and still fail to fulfill an impossible ideal of selfless motherhood. You don’t have to look very hard to see the common denominator.’ – Kim Brooks

‘I don’t want to believe it – that parenting itself makes art hard, that you must always sacrifice one for the other, that there is something inherently selfish and greedy and darkly obsessive in the desire to care as much about the thing you are writing or making as you do about the other humans in your life. What parent would want to believe this?’ – Kim Brooks

‘I am being selfish here by saying this, but I believe ‘Barfi!’ helped me the most. It got me recognition and respect.’ – Ileana D’Cruz

‘Even if Trump means well, his schemes tend to be blunt, selfish, and short-sighted rather than nuanced, empathetic, and thought through.’ – Amanda Knox

‘It sounds so incredibly selfish, but you just can’t earn the same money doing theater as you can doing television and film. I know that’s awful, but you get a mortgage and a family, and suddenly, paying that seems quite important.’ – Jonny Lee Miller

‘You can’t be selfish in this game. You’ve got to know, at the end of the day, that it’s all about winning. And when you win, everybody looks good.’ – Jimmy Butler

‘I’m so blessed, and Jessica just does such an incredible job of making everything work, because this is such a selfish profession with the time commitment.’ – Mike McCarthy

‘I initially decided to speak about my anorexia and bulimia, partly out of a selfish motivation. I felt I had been scrutinised for my weight and thought, ‘At least judge and criticise me on the facts.’ There was a freedom with that. Now it’s out there, and I just get on with life. I’m at peace with things.’ – Lucy Davis

‘Unless taught otherwise, children are the most selfish, oblivious little Philistines on the planet. They have no family, no job, no responsibilities, and nothing but time to think about their gluttonous, sticky selves. We should be teaching them to take some focus off of themselves and onto how they can best serve/treat others.’ – Steven Crowder

‘The reason I’m a writer is to understand other people and myself more. The reason I’m a writer is to dramatize stories about human beings so that it improves my life. So that’s a very selfish thing.’ – Mike O’Malley

‘Gu Jun Pyo and Kim Tan were both brought up in wealthy backgrounds, and Gu Jun Pyo is a selfish guy who only cares about himself. However, Kim Tan is a totally different person.’ – Lee Min-ho

‘I’m very selfish. I make music that I love because I only live once, and I’m an artist. I don’t try to revolt against anybody, and I don’t try to please anybody. I feel very strongly that I if love it, someone else will love it – not everybody, though.’ – Yngwie Malmsteen

‘Attackers have to be selfish on the pitch occasionally, but it’s important not to exaggerate.’ – Arjen Robben

‘I realized that you can achieve so much at the front of a stage, releasing the music yourself and being something more selfish than just the drummer.’ – Rex Orange County

‘Sometimes you look at footballers and think they’re selfish or they don’t bring a good image to society. But sometimes people underestimate footballers and their capacity to have a strong opinion and sympathy for others.’ – Juan Mata

‘The only thing I think about is helping the team, respecting all my team-mates, not being selfish.’ – Juan Mata

‘The definition of an artist, for me, is someone who is quite selfish about their creativity.’ – Steven Wilson

‘I’m trying to do music which inspires the desire to transcend politics, which has a limited and selfish and egoist and unknowledgable end about what anyone knows about existence.’ – Wayne Shorter

‘If you live the way others want you to, you are called a nice guy. If you live the way you want, you are called selfish.’ – Rana Daggubati

‘Maybe you’re a little selfish that day; maybe you want something, and it can’t happen, but you don’t want to take no for an answer. Everybody has those moments, and you just have to be okay with being open and showing it.’ – Kevin Jonas

‘I think every manager is the same. Three days before the Premier League starts, every manager is selfish that way. They want the players fit and ready.’ – Jack Wilshere

‘What makes me a selfish player? Because I shoot the ball? I’m supposed to shoot the ball. That’s how you score points. Those points go on the scoreboard for the whole team.’ – Reggie Miller

‘It occurred to me that actors are selfish, and they think that the world revolves around them. For one year, I quit, and I went to an ashram in Bihar and went to Himalayas backpacking.’ – Jim Sarbh

‘Bizarrely, I’ve been called selfish for not having children. Surely it’s more selfish to have a child when you don’t really want a child?’ – Jane Fallon

‘I have to switch my own mentality into a winning mode, not playing for myself or trying to be selfish.’ – Manny Machado

‘What does being an athlete mean? It means I have to be a little selfish again. I have to put my career sort of ahead of everything else – and I don’t like doing that.’ – Johny Hendricks

‘I’m not selfish before a fight or afterwards, but for the time of the fight itself, I have to think totally of myself.’ – Naseem Hamed

‘If my role requires a certain kind of dialect, which I think I am not confident enough to do, I’d prefer a dubbing artist then. There shouldn’t be a selfish motive, and it’s always better to have a certain understanding between the director/producer and the actress.’ – Radhika Pandit

‘If you’re competing right, if you’re doing it right, competition should be a very selfish pursuit.’ – Ben Askren

‘When you’re competing, you need to be selfish. You need to think of yourself first.’ – Ben Askren

‘Because I have been so pigheaded and so selfish about so many things for so many years, I’ve spent a lot of time being, like, ‘That person needs to change. This person needs to change.” – Devin Townsend

‘Humans are incredibly selfish. And in parents, flaws become hyper focused.’ – Catherine Reitman

‘People say I’m selfish. There might be some truth to that.’ – Christian Laettner

‘Being single isn’t all that bad, as you can be selfish and focus on yourself and your career.’ – Aditya Roy Kapur

‘Drugs are a very selfish thing.’ – Pete Doherty

‘I was very selfish when I was in the military – a very selfish man.’ – Ant Middleton

‘To think that the heritage of the West, including post-war liberalism, was a selfish, secular, practical arrangement of politics is a fiction.’ – Ben Domenech

‘I was selfish and immature. I never wanted the attention. There were helicopters flying over the hospital while I was giving birth.’ – Nadya Suleman

‘There should be an F.A.A. fine for those who bring hot food that emits odor onto the plane. You’re deemed selfish, and you have to take some sort of social awareness class.’ – Iliza Shlesinger

‘My best friends always say to me, ‘Think about yourself first,’ and tell me to be more selfish. But I’m not like that. I am a professional. I am of service to the club and to the manager.’ – Marouane Fellaini

‘People are selfish, man. They want what they want; they don’t care what you want.’ – Vinnie Paul

‘I have become the chief minister not with a selfish motive.’ – H. D. Kumaraswamy

‘It’s just really frustrating how people are just so selfish in this industry. It makes me very angry.’ – Indya Moore

‘It’s easy to be selfish and focus on what you have to do and what you need to do to accomplish your goals and be like, ‘I’ll give back later,’ but there’s no better time than now.’ – Jordan Burroughs

‘I think I just gotta get more selfish.’ – Willie Cauley-Stein

‘I’m an actor because I love acting, and my romance with this craft called acting is too intense. I’m in this business for a very selfish reason, and that is me, and nobody else. The audience loving it is by chance.’ – Manoj Bajpayee

‘You form pretty strong opinions about the guys you compete against. You’re all very competitive; you’re all very selfish. So it’s easy to drum up some strong opinions in a second’s notice, like, ‘Argh! This guy!” – Dale Earnhardt Jr.

‘I’ve been defending myself since I left Minnesota. Because I didn’t comply to what they wanted, then it was like, ‘Oh, I’m selfish. I’m this. I’m that.’ I’m like, ‘How can that be? You were just about to give me $71 million! Who gives someone $71 million, and they’re selfish, and they’re jealous of Kevin Garnett and all of this stupid stuff?” – Stephon Marbury

‘Parents don’t care about their children; they’re emotional, egotistical, selfish, and screw up their kids! Pastors knowingly mislead their flock by telling them that they can continue to sin and yet know God – because they themselves still sin. And we all know that the government does not care at all for the people.’ – Jesse Lee Peterson

‘I know myself that we goalscorers are selfish and always thinking about our goalscoring ratio.’ – Jupp Heynckes

‘Work, especially if you’re lucky in what you do, is one of the great pleasures of life, but – like all pleasures – it can become selfish.’ – Peter Hitchens

‘In this sport if you want to win you need to be selfish, it is that kind of sport, even though it is a team sport you need to think about yourself.’ – Valtteri Bottas

‘Going into a new environment with new coaches posed the question as to how well I actually know my own game. To have these big names asking what I want from them, and what makes me tick, showed me how selfish you have to be with your practice.’ – Jos Buttler

‘I have grown up on a staple diet of love stories. But, soon I realised it is not so rosy or divine. It is painful, selfish and ugly. Love is the biggest curse of this generation!’ – Kanika Dhillon

‘To be honest, I’m selfish as an artist. I’m doing what I want to do and what I want to hear.’ – Tierra Whack

‘From a purely selfish, batting point of view, I couldn’t bat any better than the 2010-11 Ashes and then in India in 2012. That was as good as I could play.’ – Alastair Cook

‘If I deserve a new contract, the contract will come. I’m not a selfish guy, I want the team to keep winning games, I don’t go crazy about my contract.’ – Ander Herrera

‘Normally the biggest stars, as Wayne Rooney is, are selfish but he is not.’ – Ander Herrera

‘I’m not selfish.’ – Frank Gore

‘I just make music that I love. I’m kind of selfish when I make music. I’m like, ‘Do I like this?” – Snoh Aalegra

‘Philanthropy can have a very strong selfish component.’ – Martha Nussbaum

‘A lot of folks would say that if I had been a little more selfish with my bat, I would have had a much bigger average. But that doesn’t worry me.’ – Viv Richards

‘When you’re a driver, you are very selfish and you only need to focus on your own performance because ultimately, it’s your name on the side of the car.’ – Susie Wolff

‘Like everybody else, I am naturally selfish, and so I’m going to think about myself.’ – Kirk Cousins

‘No one will ever say Dwight Clark was selfish.’ – Steve Young

‘What people say about millennials is the same thing they’ve said about every generation: Younger people are obsessed with technology, and selfish, and they’re lazy, and they live with their parents… Guess what? That’s ’cause they’re young people!’ – Adam Conover

‘Banksy’s a very selfish, driven, paranoid artist. For good reasons.’ – Ben Eine

‘Corruption is when people in public office use that public office for private or selfish ends. This is one of the most central debates in the last 40 years in law, what is corruption.’ – Zephyr Teachout

‘I want to create a life that is just healthy and peaceful – an enclave, really, of retreat. It’s not helpful for the big picture. It’s totally selfish to run away like that.’ – Phil Elverum

‘The intent of Slayer’s musical and lyrical content has always been selfish. We feel very strongly about the importance of staying true to ourselves.’ – Jeff Hanneman

‘But I do think I’m quite a selfish performer in the sense that I’m not one of those that’s like ‘Hey, come on everybody lets sing along’ you know that kind of thing.’ – Katie Melua

‘Managing players is harder these days because of the arrival of new technology. They are all using it in their spare time so they become more isolated and selfish. They share less, they talk less. They have apps, their phones and the Internet but they are less used to talking to people.’ – Didier Deschamps

‘I’m not a selfish player; it’s about our team.’ – Jameis Winston

‘I used to think you had to be very selfish, but as I get older my views on life change.’ – John Barnes

‘When you first sit down to write songs, you have to be selfish.’ – Ben Howard

‘Of course, I could try IVF. But having watched my friend TV presenter Clare Nasir go through it, I know how tough the journey is. Emotional fool I may be, but even I can see that’s too selfish a course of action to impose on my family.’ – Kate Garraway

‘When you’re dealing with the age of Snapchat, Facebook, and Instagram, then everything becomes very selfish and cynical.’ – Derek Trucks

‘I’m not too selfish or unselfish.’ – Andrew Wiggins

‘As we grow up and we’re developing, our ego needs to be contained, otherwise we’d all be selfish two- and three-year-olds, screaming every time we didn’t get our way.’ – J. J. Redick

‘Fighting, you have to be selfish.’ – Dustin Poirier

‘I’m not a selfish guy, I’m not a stats guy.’ – Julio Jones

‘I’ve been very selfish and the women in my life have hated that because of my work ethic. I try not to bring my work home but the next day I want to go prepared. So okay let’s have a few moments of camaraderie whatever… okay great! I go work on the script.’ – Bill Duke

‘I mean, people aren’t continuing like this and not doing anything because they are evil, or because they don’t want to. We aren’t destroying the biosphere because we are selfish. We are doing it simply because we are unaware.’ – Greta Thunburg

‘As actors, we are selfish. When listening to a story, we think of the significance of our character in that story.’ – Neha Sharma

‘When Stuart passed away, I was so young and so selfish about living and having fun.’ – Astrid Kirchherr

‘I was always pretty selfish.’ – Spencer Matthews

‘I still dream of having a lifestyle brand but it’s not good enough to have that selfish dream when your kids are getting older and have their own interests.’ – Holly Willoughby

‘Have I ever hated anyone? Higuain – but he surprised me after getting to know him. No. 9s are selfish, they do a different job, but he has a generous, playful side. He’s a demanding guy because you have to be pamper him, motivate him. He needs affection to feed the incredible potential he has.’ – Giorgio Chiellini

‘Our better angels get clouded and we’re more selfish than we should be, more anxious or neurotic or desperate or self-sabotaging. Crueler, even. But I do think there’s hope for everyone… I think redemption is possible for anybody.’ – Raphael Bob-Waksberg

‘I’m pretty selfish, I think. I’m probably a terrible dad. I don’t do too much with my kids. Obviously I love them and everything, but I just stay here in the studio all day.’ – Allan Holdsworth

‘I just wanna keep making stuff that – in a very selfish way – I find interesting.’ – Misha Green

‘There’s always selfish behavior. There are lots of examples of people hoarding. But we’ve seen in this pandemic that the vast majority of behavior from normal citizens is actually pro-social in nature. People are willing to help their neighbors.’ – Rutger Bregman

‘Since the 70s and the 80s you see the rise of neoliberalism. The central dogma of neoliberalism was that most people are selfish. So, we started designing our institutions around that idea, our schools, our workplaces, our democracies. The government became less and less important.’ – Rutger Bregman

‘And maybe some people do it too much, are too selfish and concentrated on chess. But I think that in all professions you can find a lot of people like that.’ – Judit Polgar

‘My incentive in starting Vanguard, I’m very blunt about this, it was my means of preserving my career. That’s a very selfish thing.’ – John C. Bogle

‘The youth of today has no qualms accepting and talking about their love affairs on national television. They don’t bother much about their parents and talk about love openly. I feel they are selfish.’ – Kashmira Shah

‘Half of the basketball world thinks I’m this hothead, dirty player who can’t get anything under control and probably thinks I’m arrogant and a selfish guy.’ – Grayson Allen

‘Yes, there will be situations when you may need to be a little selfish, but it is better to find the right balance.’ – Charles Leclerc

‘When you’re the younger guy, you’re kind of only looking after yourself. Obviously you have to be a bit selfish in terms of what you’re doing. But when you’re the older guy you have to look out for the younger guys as well. If they’re making mistakes, they need help, then you help them.’ – DeAndre Yedlin

‘In a way, I’m overly ambitious, selfish in a way. I think because I am so active, I think that’s what keeps my brain going and I can bounce things off of each other.’ – Eric Nam

‘When women say no, they are immediately seen as selfish and not team players.’ – Sarah Cooper

‘There’s no way you can go out there and have a killer instinct on court, be selfish on the court, when there are more important things going on in your life, or in your heart.’ – Mats Wilander

‘You know, I’m not a selfish guy.’ – Paul Millsap

‘I’d rather be remembered as a player who came on and impacted a lot of games for England. If I ever take a selfish thought-process of, ‘I’m doing this for myself,’ then things will be seriously wrong.’ – Ben Stokes

‘I am not selfish.’ – David Trezeguet

‘You can be selfish by being too unselfish at times.’ – Marc Gasol

‘This is a selfish sport. I’m going out there and winning for myself.’ – T.J. Dillashaw

‘Americans, apparently, either do nothing about the world’s problems, in which case they are ignorant and isolationist, selfish and gutless, or they try to do something about the world’s problems, in which case they are arrogant and naive, greedy and bullying.’ – Gavin Esler

‘I’m not a selfish person, I don’t think.’ – Joe Flacco

‘There are times where you have to be selfish.’ – Joe Flacco

‘Maybe I’m too selfish to just be a producer. Also, I feel like I have something to say that’s interesting or unique.’ – Mura Masa

‘I realise that I need to be selfish at times as well as smart in decision-making and just not throw away my wicket.’ – Shreyas Iyer

‘Before I got big, I was playing point guard, so I’m kinda like a pass-first person. Some people tell me I should be more selfish, but that’s not me.’ – Zion Williamson

‘I’ll do whatever I need to. I’m not selfish.’ – Tavon Austin

‘I hate the narrative that people have to be tortured in order to be good artists. I think it’s a solipsistic view that people use in order to be selfish.’ – Marielle Heller

‘I’m not a selfish person.’ – Julio Cesar Chavez Sr.

‘I’ve grown into that more aggressive, more selfish basketball at times.’ – Bradley Beal

‘To be an Olympian is not flattering for any partner that’s with you. It’s a really selfish part of your life.’ – Scott Moir

‘I didn’t breast-feed. I’m selfish.’ – Shanna Moakler

‘I’ve never been a selfish player. I’ve never been able to just say I am going as well. I’ve always thought about the team first.’ – Jermaine Jenas

‘Let’s be honest, you’re very selfish in your twenties, and in your thirties you are just trying to get a down payment for your flat or enough money to pay your bills.’ – Alan Carr

‘I think the biggest thing I’ve learned from my international experience is that it’s our systems that are different. People are the same everywhere. The system puts restraints on people. But they’re good and bad, generous and selfish everywhere.’ – Dave Schultz

‘Obviously there are certain times when you need to be selfish in the game, but to be selfless and do what’s best for your teammates, I think that that’s winning basketball.’ – Jrue Holiday

‘The better I am, the better the team is, so you should want me to be selfish about how good I am.’ – Trevor Bauer

‘The one thing I’ve learned about this sport is that it’s OK to be selfish at times.’ – Travis Browne

‘I’m not a selfish player – never been a selfish player in my life. Always been about the team.’ – Julius Randle

‘I know you only get one chance to make a first impression in a city – and I was so disappointed in myself for how that first season in New York had gone. It felt like a blown opportunity. It felt like I’d cemented my reputation in the opposite way that I’d wanted to. Selfish. Not a leader. Not a winning player.’ – Julius Randle

‘I’m trying so hard to win or make the right play or whatever, that you know, it kind of comes off as being selfish, but I’m not, I’m just used to being the guy.’ – Julius Randle

‘He was my hero, though it was probably for the wrong reasons. Because he could hit people harder than anyone else, and things like that. It’s only recently I’ve come to understand how selfish he could be, how hard on his children.’ – Jack Hemingway

‘It can be seen as being quite selfish, but I’m very happy to be selfish.’ – Kathy Burke

‘I’m happy to be selfish now. That’s the beauty of getting older.’ – Kathy Burke

‘Celebrations have now become too selfish and I don’t like it. When I used to score I was happy to celebrate with my team-mates. Now when players score it is all about them.’ – Gianluca Vialli

‘I love players but I’m afraid it has become a selfish culture.’ – Gianluca Vialli

‘I’ve been a club manager myself and know the demands and, from a selfish point of view, you want your players to be fit every week.’ – Rob Page

‘Guys that are playing in the last year of their contracts are playing for their livelihood and that tends to come off as selfish.’ – Lorenzen Wright

‘You can be pretty selfish as tennis players, being an individual sport.’ – Mardy Fish

‘Kobe’s been criticized unfairly. He’s in a ‘damned if you do, damned if you don’t’ situation. If he passes too much, they say he’s not shooting. If he shoots, he’s called selfish.’ – Jermaine O’Neal

‘I couldn’t carry on straight after doing ‘Mother,’ it was really hard. Getting my anger out was a catharsis but it was also selfish and indulgent.’ – Goldie

‘Some say I’m selfish. My approach is the complete opposite of selfishness.’ – Joey Votto

‘I wanted to experience college and to travel for my selfish reasons.’ – Keeley Hazell

‘No, I’m far too selfish to have a child. Also, I couldn’t bear to have an ugly child. I’d have to be 100 per cent sure that the girl I had a child with was good-looking. You can never tell because you don’t know what’s going on while it’s being fermented. You’d have to do a lot of research to check that they didn’t have ugly genes.’ – Mathew Horne

‘Coming from a great college program like F.S.U., everybody had one common goal, and that was to win. You get into the minor leagues, and whether it’s right or wrong, it’s a selfish game.’ – Buster Posey

‘People misjudge it sometimes and think I’m selfish or I’m quiet or I’m rude because I don’t talk.’ – DeSean Jackson

‘At a certain time in your career you can’t share your time with anyone else. You have to be completely selfish – so that you can write your music.’ – Eddie Rabbitt

‘Parenthood helps you be less selfish, because you don’t care about anything as much as you do them.’ – Tom Fletcher

‘Rocknroll is a selfish business because youre always thinking about the tour, the show, promotion and writing new albums. Your head is somewhere else, but Ive learnt to not let it be all-consuming. You want time with your family.’ – Tony Hadley

‘When old people in power scold children and young people for ‘selfishness’ if they don’t get triple-vaxxed, or if they let their mask slip below their nose occasionally, or try to have some fun in the sun, it’s obvious who actually is being selfish.’ – Miranda Devine

‘I enjoyed being single and selfish and only having myself to worry about.’ – Montel Vontavious Porter

‘I need to step up to the plate, and I can’t be selfish, and I need to stop getting in my own way.’ – Dwayne Haskins

‘I was very selfish and if I didn’t score, I still remained on the pitch to celebrate anyway. I endured the disappointment.’ – Luca Toni

‘I’m a bit selfish and everyone needs to be selfish. Else they will not become anything in their life.’ – Regina Cassandra

‘I’ve got to be a little more selfish in the sense that I believe in myself that I can score goals.’ – T. J. Oshie

‘Balotelli is just selfish. He deserves a lot of slaps.’ – Paolo di Canio

‘To be D-POY is a goal. I don’t think it’s selfish and I’d love to be D-POY.’ – Aaron Gordon

‘You don’t want to make it a selfish thing, like ‘I need to score!” – Domantas Sabonis

‘I have to be a little bit selfish and give credit to myself. The actual amount, the work I put in – it’s like, I can’t even tell you how many hours I put in on a daily basis to work on my shot.’ – Lauri Markkanen

‘Maybe I’m not selfish enough for a striker but I enjoy football too much.’ – Eidur Gudjohnsen

‘People are selfish. What’s more, they aren’t, for the most part, very interested in ideals. They’re interested in themselves, not the truth or the good.’ – Norah Vincent