Selfish Quotes - Page 15

• All our acts, reasoned and unreasoned, are selfish

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration

  Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, Albert Bigelow Paine (2014). “The Mark Twain Autobiography + 3 Biographies: 4 Mark Twain Biographies In 1 Book: Chapters From My Autobiography By Mark Twain + My Mark Twain By William Dean Howells’ + Mark Twain A Biography By Albert Bigelow Paine + The Boys’ Life Of Mark Twain By Albert Bigelow Paine”, p.846, e-artnow

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• I know it sounds selfish, wanting to do something no one else has done. But that's what you're out here for - to separate yourself from everyone else.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Sports, Sound, Done

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• I've had only one idea in my life - a true idee fixe. To put it as bluntly as possible - the idea of having my own way. 'Control!' expresses it. The control of human behavior. In my early experimental days it was a frenzied, selfish desire to dominate. I remember the rage I used to feel when a prediction went awry. I could have shouted at the subjects of my experiments, 'Behave, damn you! Behave as you ought!

  B. F. Skinner

  Damn You, Ideas, Desire

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• I change my mind so much, I'm better going on my own. Shopping is a selfish activity anyway.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Shopping, Mind, My Own

  "My life in shopping". Interview with Sophie Kinsella, www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2007.

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• I became a lawyer for selfish reasons. I thought I could do a lawyer’s job better than any other.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Jobs, Lawyer, Reason

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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

  Team, Sacrifice, Individual

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• Marriage provides an ideal setting for overcoming any tendency to be selfish or self-centered. I think one of the reasons that we are counseled to get married early in life is to avoid developing inappropriate character traits that are hard to change.

  Richard G. Scott

  Character, Thinking, Overcoming

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• The charlatan takes very different shapes according to circumstances; but at bottom he is a man who cares nothing about knowledge for its own sake, and only strives to gain the semblance of
  it that he may use it for his own personal ends, which are always selfish and material.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Who Cares, Different

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Studies in Pessimism (illustrated)”, p.81, Full Moon Publications

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• Love is a virtue; it grows stronger and purer and less selfish by applying it to what it loathes; but theft is a vice involving the slave-idea that one's neighbor is superior to oneself.

  Aleister Crowley

  Love Is, Ideas, Stronger

  Aleister Crowley (1991). “Magick: In Theory and Practice”, Book Sales

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• Every selfish motive therefore, every family attachment, ought to recommend such a system of policy as would provide no less carefully for the rights and happiness of the lowest than of the highest orders of Citizens.

  George Mason

  Attachment, Order, Rights

  "The Journal of the Debates in the Convention which Framed the Constitution of the United States, May-September, 1787", Volume 2, as recorded by James Madison, 1908.

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• It is best to marry for purely selfish reasons.

  Anita Brookner

  Reason, Selfish Reasons

  1981 A Start in Life.

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

  Anthony de Mello

  Book, Writing, Butterfly

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.206, Image

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• True love is not the helpless desire to possess the cherished object of one's fervent affection; true love is the disciplined generosity we require of ourselves for the sake of another when we would rather be selfish; that, at least, is how I have taught myself to love my wife.

  Stephen L. Carter

  Love Is, Generosity, Wife

  Stephen L. Carter (2002). “The Emperor of Ocean Park”, Knopf

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• God would be a very selfish god if he gave all the soul to one race. ... When one sings from the heart and it reaches another heart, that's soul.

  Little Richard

  Heart, Race, Soul

  FaceBook post by Little Richard from Jan 15, 2016

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• Every man has his own reason for every deed. Usually it is selfish.

  David Gemmell

  Men, Deeds, Reason

  "Quest for Lost Heroes". Book by David Gemmell, ch. 10, April 12, 1990.

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• When your kid is being selfish or greedy and you want to help them not be that way, you have to find a way to articulate it and inspire them.

  Louis C. K.

  Kids, Inspire, Want

  "Louis C.K.: The ESQ+A". Interview With Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. May 23, 2011.

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• There is in even the most selfish passion a large element of self-abnegation. It is startling to realize that what we call extreme self-seeking is actually self-renunciation. The miser, health addict, glory chaser and their like are not far behind the selfless in the exercise of self-sacrifice.

  Eric Hoffer

  Passion, Exercise, Sacrifice

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• You can't build marriage on a foundation of selfish hedonism, because that would be to promise people only roses, and marriage is also thorns.

  Alan Keyes

  People, Rose, Promise

  Alan Keyes' Speech at the DuPage County Republican Central Committee's Party for the President, www.keyesarchives.com. September 2, 2004.

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• Selfish hedonism is not a pejorative. It is a description - an exactly accurate description of what is involved in homosexual relations.

  Alan Keyes

  Description, Relation, Homosexual

  Alan Keyes' Speech at the DuPage County Republican Central Committee's Party for the President, www.keyesarchives.com. September 2, 2004.

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• My big problem with corporate structure is this bizarre sense of loyalty you're supposed to feel -- towards what is basically a virus. It grows or dies, like any virus. And you use it for your own selfish ends." - source

  Thom Yorke

  Loyalty, Viruses, Problem

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• A love to Christ which is so cowardly and selfish that it is unwilling to proclaim by a public confession its faith in Him who hung before all the world crucified for sinners, is a love which is hardly worth the name.

  Abbott Eliot Kittredge

  Names, World, Christ

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• There is no such thing as a secret among our leaders; communication is very open and honest, and if it's not, then it can become seemingly brutal. You've heard my arguments for love, friends, and authenticity, but there are the deceivers, the manipulators, the control freaks, and the self-appointed teachers in the Body who would love to use our system for their own selfish purposes. We all know the realities of the old sin nature.

  Ted Haggard

  Teacher, Communication, Reality

  "Dog Training, Fly Fishing, and Sharing Christ in the 21st Century". Book by Ted Haggard, 2002.

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• Having been created in the image and likeness of God, unlike trees or flowers or fire or the moon, we are most fully human when we love, forgive and work toward peace. To be violent, vengeful or selfish is to be un-human!

  Daniel Horan

  Flower, Moon, Fire

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• We can't play stupid hockey, dumb hockey, greedy hockey, selfish hockey. We have to put the team ahead of our personal feelings.

  Terry Crisp

  Funny, Team, Stupid

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• Truthiness is "What I say is right, and [nothing] anyone else says could possibly be true." It's not only that I feel it to be true, but that I feel it to be true. There's not only an emotional quality, but there's a selfish quality.

  Stephen Colbert

  Emotional, Quality, Being True

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. January 25, 2006.

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