Being Selfish Quotes

• 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

  Motivational, Success, Basketball

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• 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

  Selfish, People, Care

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• Men tend to be selfish.

  Caprice Bourret

  Selfish, Men

  "Caprice Bourret...the sexiest fish in the pond". www.askmen.com.

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• Being selfish to me means that you have to look out for yourself and you don't have to sacrifice.

  Herbie Mann

  Selfish, Mean, Sacrifice

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• You have to be selfish to be an actor.

  Charles Dance

  Selfish, Selfishness, Actors

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• Being stubborn has helped, being selfish is not a bad thing.

  Herbie Mann

  Selfish, Stubborn, Bad Things

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• Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless.

  Edward Albert

  Selfish, Selfless, Sometimes

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• 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

  Selfish, Mistake, Emotion

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• Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Sad, Beautiful

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.64, Oscar Wilde

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• Unless you love yourself, you can't love anybody. Be selfish.

  Rajneesh

  Selfish, Love You, Miscellaneous

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• People think if you look after yourself you're being selfish, you know.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Selfish, Thinking, People

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• That's okay. You an be selfish with me all you want. I'm yours.

  Abbi Glines

  Selfish, Want, Okay

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• I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me, if I do that well enough, then I'll be able to look after someone else -- the children or the husband or the elderly. But I have to look after myself first. I know that some people think that's being selfish, I think that's being self-full.

  Maya Angelou

  Children, Husband, Selfish

  "Maya Angelou Opens Women’s Health And Wellness Center, Calls Disparities ‘Embarrassing’" by Jessica Cumberbatch Anderson, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 15, 2012.

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• Loving yourself has nothing to do with being selfish, self-centered or self-engrossed. It means that you accept yourself for what you are. Loving yourself means that you accept responsibility for your own development, growth and happiness.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Selfish, Mean, Responsibility

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• The difficult part of love
  Is being selfish enough.

  Philip Larkin

  Love, Selfish, Enough

  Philip Larkin (2012). “Required Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces 1955-1982”, p.48, Faber & Faber

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• The most DIFFICULT thing for individuals to do when they become part of a team is to sacrifice, it is much EASIER to be selfish.

  Pat Riley

  Selfish, Team, Sacrifice

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• Shouldn't you have a license for being that ugly?

  Russell Lynes

  Wise, Ugly, Insult

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• Know that truth, forgiveness, and love can heal the world. Imagine if all of us could be truthful with ourselves, start forgiving everyone, and start loving everyone. We would no longer be selfish, gossiping would be over, and we would no longer judge one another. The world would become a place where all of us live in love.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Selfish, Judging, Forgiving

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• I have learned to go fully in the face of my dreams. I would recommend you do the same. Now is the time in your life to be selfish. To explore. To take chances. Remember being selfish is not the same as being self-indulgent. You have the gift of time. Use it to do what you love. Believe anything is possible and then work like hell to make it happen.

  Julianna Margulies

  Dream, Selfish, Believe

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• Just don't let anything get in the way of what you want to achieve. A lot of people get knocked back by friends, or family, or peer pressure. If you have a talent and want to do something with it, it's down to you. If it's what you really want then go after it and be very selfish... You have to remain committed, you have to stay focused and you have to be selfish.

  George Sampson

  Selfish, People, Peer Pressure

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• That's the point of music, to not be selfish and to help other people, I think.

  Zac Farro

  Selfish, Helping Others, Thinking

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• You are still young, so you think only of your own self. You do not notice the tribulations that occur all around you, to other people. Do not protest; it is true. I am not condemning you. I was as selfish as you, when I was your age. It is the custom of the young to be selfish... But someday you will understand that nobody passes through this world without suffering-no matter what you think of them and their supposed good fortune.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Selfish, Thinking, People

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• The number one thing on any team that will keep your players from being selfish is respect for the other players.

  Nick Saban

  Team, Selfish, Player

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• I don't think there's a specific route to take to make a relationship last a long time. And who knows what the future will bring. Please God we are happy forever, but you just don't know what's round the corner. For me the key issue is not to be selfish, on both sides. I think the moment someone becomes selfish they let the other person down.

  Louise Redknapp

  Selfish, Thinking, Keys

  "Why Louise Redknapp is taking her time losing baby bulge". www.mirror.co.uk. August 10, 2005.

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• Everybody makes such a big deal today about team play because there's such a scarcity of it. Greed is a reason. You have to understand the influence of greed. A player has to be selfish in the pursuit of the development of his skills, but he cannot be selfish when it comes time to blend them in with what's good for his team.

  Pete Carril

  Selfish, Team, Player

  Pete Carril, Dan White (2004). “The Smart Take from the Strong: The Basketball Philosophy of Pete Carril”, p.80, U of Nebraska Press

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