Quotes by Selfish Being happy requires that you define your life in your own terms and then throw your whole heart into living your life to the fullest. In a way, happiness requires that you be perfectly selfish in order to develop yourself to a point where you can be unselfish for the rest of your life. Brian Tracy selfish heart life Love is a balance between independence and interdependence. In love, you want to be independent and interdependent. You want to be a little bit selfish and a little bit selfless. Love can be an antidote to loneliness, as long as there is some aloneness in it. Bruce Feiler selfish loneliness love-you Sociotropic voters with biased economic beliefs are more likely to produce severe political failures than are selfish voters with rational expectations. Bryan Caplan selfish political expectations 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 squash selfish nice The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places. Bryant H. McGill selfish liars lying It can be rebuilt if other countries with selfish interests will not meddle, as has been done in the past. Bulent Ecevit selfish country past We cannot free ourselves from pride and selfish ambition; a divine rescue is absolutely necessary. C. J. Mahaney selfish pride ambition It was humanly impossible for the disciples to free themselves from their selfish pursuit of self-exaltation, just as it's impossible for us to free ourselves from the very same sins. C. J. Mahaney exaltation selfish impossible Individuals motivated by self-interest, self-indulgence, and a false sense of self-sufficiency pursue selfish ambition for the purpose of self-glorification. C. J. Mahaney selfish purpose ambition "Don't bother too much about your feelings. When they are humble, loving, brave, give thanks for them; when they are conceited, selfish, cowardly, ask to have them altered. In neither case are they you, but only a thing that happens to you. What matters is your intentions and your behavior C. S. Lewis selfish conceited humble That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised; but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and cruel people to the top, and then it all slides back into misery and ruin. In fact, the machine conks. It seems to start up all right and runs a few yards, and then it breaks down. C. S. Lewis selfish keys running A woman means by Unselfishness chiefly taking trouble for others; a man means not giving trouble to others...thus, while the woman thinks of doing good offices and the man of respecting other people's rights, each sex, without any obvious unreason, can and does regard the other as radically selfish. C. S. Lewis selfish mean sex If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit. C. S. Lewis selfish feelings people I am suffering incessant temptations to uncharitable thoughts at present; one of those black moods in which nearly all one's friends seem to be selfish or even false. And how terrible that there should be even a kind of pleasure in thinking evil. C. S. Lewis selfish evil thinking A tyrannous and gluttonous demand for affection can be a horrible thing. But in ordinary life no one calls a child selfish because it turns for comfort to its mother; nor an adult who turns to his fellow "for company." Those, whether children or adults, who do so least are not usually the most selfless. C. S. Lewis selfish mother children Unless the people, through unified action, arise and take charge of their government, they will find that their government has taken charge of them. Independence and liberty will be gone, and the general public will find itself in a condition of servitude to an aggregation of organized and selfish interest. Calvin Coolidge selfish government taken 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 foundation selfish honest Men tend to be selfish. Caprice Bourret being-selfish selfish men I confidently trust that the American people will prove themselves ... too wise not to detect the false pride or the dangerous ambitions or the selfish schemes which so often hide themselves under that deceptive cry of mock patriotism: "Our country, right or wrong!" They will not fail to recognize that our dignity, our free institutions and the peace and welfare of this and coming generations of Americans will be secure only as we cling to the watchword of true patriotism: "Our country - when right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right." Carl Schurz selfish wise country 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 selfish player people «4567891011121314»
