Every Man Is Selfish Quotes

#1. Now you see, Tom," said Mr. Harthouse ( ... ); "every man is selfish in everything he does, and I am exactly like the rest of my fellow-creatures.

Charles Dickens

#2. The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called yourself.

Robert M. Pirsig

#3. Let us live for passion,/ for the taking off of clothes,/tossing them over our shoulder.

Susan Browne

#4. The food is absolutely atrocious, and parents have no idea. Parents are giving their kids three dollars and saying, 'Okay, see you later. Go off to school and have a good lunch.'

Morgan Spurlock

#5. If I were you boys, I wouldn't talk or even think about women. It ain't good for your health.

Walter Huston

#6. Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam.

Khaled Hosseini

#7. To understand something properly, we need to know it a little more; but to know someone purely, we need to understand our inner feelings truly and for sure.

Anuj

#8. It is for us to do those things which the Lord requires at our hands, and leave the result with him.

Brigham Young

#9. To Sally, who showed me the benefits of the sport of golf.

Stieg Larsson

#10. I'm a selfish prick, and I want to be the greatest fuck of your life and ruin you for every man who comes after me. But I'm not a mind reader, so I need some help.

Cara McKenna

#11. Religion is about integration, about successfully bringing the selfish ego into line with the centre of the personality where God exists, as a divine spark, in every human being. Religion is about helping man to live in harmony with his true self and to become the person God's designed him to be.

Susan Howatch

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

David Gemmell

#13. Kindly politeness is the slow fruit of advanced reflection; it is a sort of humanity and kindliness applied to small acts and every day discourse: it bids man soften towards others, and forget himself for the sake of others: it constrains genuine nature, which is selfish and gross.

Hippolyte Taine

#14. 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

#15. My experience is the White House is not a very good place to coordinate intelligence, much less to integrate it.

Dennis C. Blair

#16. Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish man. The devoted fail ...

Thomas Hardy

#17. The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money.

Moliere

#18. My father is a man with a great capacity for love and a huge heart, which has led him to be somewhat of a lothario, but at the same time, he's genuine. He's far more loving and kind than I could ever be. As selfish as he is, he is an extremely giving person. He's just 100 percent in every direction.

Jake Busey

#19. The selfish man cuts away the sand from under his own feet, he digs his own grave; and every time, from the beginning of the world until now, God Almighty pushes him into the grave and covers him up.

Charles Henry Fowler

#20. Man is a rebel, and a rebel is naturally in confusion. He is in conflict with every other rebel. For a rebel by his very nature is selfish. He is seeking his own good and not the good of others.

Billy Graham

#21. No matter how far you are. No matter how long it takes him. Through Distance And Time I'll be waiting ..

Alicia Keys

#22. Every selfish man, strangely enough, becomes a self slayer

Sadhu Sundar Singh

#23. 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