Selfish Quotes - Page 20

• I hate the standard of stupid and selfish driving we have in this country. We are the worst I've come across.

  Martin Shaw

  Country, Hate, Stupid

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• It's a very selfish time. When I'm here at home, my responsibilities are far greater. I'm forced to be way more selfless. My priorities are so far down the list that it's hard to see them. And yet, when I'm on tour, I basically have to get the show right, every night, but the days are really constructed around selfish activities for self-improvement, or not. That's where I feel guilty because I know that life is going on full-speed when I'm not around.

  Gavin Rossdale

  Home, Responsibility, Night

  Source: collider.com

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• Any practice of business which would dominate the country by its own selfish interest is a destruction of equality of opportunity. Government in business, except in emergency, is also a destruction of equal opportunity and the incarnation of tyranny through bureaucracy.

  Herbert Hoover

  Country, Opportunity, Practice

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• Advertising is the place where the selfish interests of the manufacturer coincide with the interests of society.

  David Ogilvy

  Advertising, Interest, Selfish Interest

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• You have endless energy only when you are working for the good of the whole - you have to stop working for your little selfish interests. That's the secret of it. In this world you are given as you give.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Giving, Secret, Energy

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.44, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Oh! If those selfish men, who are the cause of all one's misery, only knew what their poor slaves go through! What suffering, what humiliation to the delicate feelings of a poor woman, above all a young one, especially with those nasty doctors.

  Queen Victoria

  Men, Doctors, Feelings

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• I speak as briefly as possible because too much harm has already been done with irresponsible words of bitterness and selfish political opportunism. I speak as simply as possible because the issue is too great to be obscured by eloquence. I speak simply and briefly in the hope that my words will be taken to heart.

  Margaret Chase Smith

  Taken, Heart, Issues

  Declaration of Conscience, delivered 1 June 1950

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• Considering yourself selflessly selfish is a principle of all great thinkers

  Phil Collins

  Principles, Thinker, Considering

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• There's nothing about me that's selfish.

  Tracy McGrady

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• We all know what feminists are. They are shrill, overly aggressive, man-hating, ball-busting, selfish, hairy, extremist, deliberately unattractive women with absolutely no sense of humor who see sexism at every turn. They make men's testicles shrivel up to the size of peas, they detest the family and think all children should be deported or drowned.

  Susan J. Douglas

  Children, Hate, Men

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• I'm a selfish football player. Each time the ball is snapped, I tell myself that I want to make that tackle, make that big play.

  Jevon Kearse

  Football, Player, Balls

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• 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

  Children, Sibling, Independent

  "Carrie Underwood: Full Disclosure". Interview with Allison Glock, www.marieclaire.com. May 14, 2013.

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• To see lonely, selfish, empty individuals transformed slowly but surely into warm, loving, wholesome, and happy people is to become aware of why Paul describes Christ as 'unsearchable riches'.

  Ray Stedman

  Lonely, People, Riches

  Ray C. Stedman (2011). “Authentic Christianity: The Classic Bestseller on Living the Life of Faith with Integrity”, p.107, Discovery House

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• I'm used to living alone, and I like it that way. You become so selfish living alone...I'd make a terrible husband anyway.

  Paul Lynde

  Husband, Way, Used

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Casting a spell, in self-defense or in self-interest is not selfish, but positive, life-affirming. You have been given powers, the very same powers that society devalues... What if it comes back tenfold? Well, don't be a fool. Never use your magick to attack the innocent. Then you have nothing to fear... Don't be frivolous or cowardly. If your course is righteous, and your tools ready, go to it.

  Zsuzsanna Budapest

  Positive Life, What If, Casting

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• Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene is a classic example of science fiction.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Example, Fiction, Classic

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• Living a happy life is my main priority. You guys may think I am selfish for "wasting my talent" by staying away from events for a bit, but I am finally at a comfortable place where I can honestly say, if you guys see me out on tour again it's because I am there to win, and I'm going to go 100%.

  Andy Irons

  Happy Life, Winning, Thinking

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• There are good points about all... wars. People forget self. The virtues of magnanimity, courage, patriotism, etc., are called into life. People are more generous, more sympathetic, better, than when engaged in the more selfish pursuits of peace.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  War, People, Etc

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• I'm selfish when it comes to work. I'm like, "Oh, that will be fun! I wanna do that!" I never think beyond my participation in a project.

  Holliday Grainger

  Fun, Thinking, Projects

  Source: collider.com

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• Collectivism takes on many guises and seldom uses its own real name. Words like 'community' and 'social' soothe us into thinking that collectivist decision-making is somehow higher and nobler than individual or 'selfish' decision-making. But the cold fact is that communities do not make decisions. Individuals who claim to speak for the community impose their decisions on us all.

  Doug Bandow

  Real, Thinking, Names

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• Socialism is the ideal state, but it can never be achieved while man is so selfish.

  Annie Besant

  Men, Socialism, States

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• Prayer is not the cunning art of using God, subjecting Him to one's selfish ends in an effort to get out of Him what you want.

  F. Huegel

  Art, Prayer, Effort

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• Great leaders have to know when to divide that line from being selfless to being selfish, and he perfectly chose the time to be selfish and made plays.

  Michael Irvin

  Play, Leader, Lines

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• International war is the sum total of millions of individual wars, raging in the minds of the people, between what is selfish and what is selfless. To the extent that you and I develop selflessness in our own hearts, to that extent we contribute to peace in our family, community, country, and world.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Country, War, Heart

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• We are built as gene machines and cultured as meme machines, but we have the power to turn against our creators. We, alone on earth, can rebel against the tyranny of the selfish replicators.

  Richard Dawkins

  Rebel, Machines, Earth

  Richard Dawkins (2016). “The Selfish Gene: 40th Anniversary edition”, p.221, Oxford University Press

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