Trying Not To Be Selfish Quotes

#1. Departures and arrivals tend to emphasize people's personalities. - Author: Lilli Palmer

#2. Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth. - Author: Ferdinand De Saussure

#3. Winning Forever is not about the final score; it's about competing and striving to be the best. If you are in this pursuit, then you're already winning. - Author: Pete Carroll

#4. Selfish men were ... trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights - Author: Maria Weston Chapman

#5. There seemed to be three choices: to give up trying to love anyone, to stop being selfish, or to learn to love a person while continuing to be selfish. - Author: Lydia Davis

#6. I live in my own little world. But its ok, they know me here. - Author: Lauren Myracle

#7. I have a red line against the Americans. - Author: Muqtada Al Sadr

#8. People look at me, and they have a certain perception, and they slap a label on me. The guy you saw in a wrestling ring is not who I am. - Author: Dave Bautista

#9. I tell them that there is nothing more selfish than trying to change someone's mind because they don't think like you. Just because something is different does not mean it should not be respected. I - Author: Jodi Picoult

#10. Do you know someone you would like to change and regulate and improve? Good! That is fine. I am all in favor of it, But why not begin on yourself? From a purely selfish standpoint, that is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others - yes, and a lot less dangerous. - Author: Dale Carnegie

#11. I didn't think I had anything particular to say, but I thought I might have something to say to children. - Author: Penelope Lively

#12. I had to give him props, but how annoying of him to be a hero when I was trying so hard to dislike him. It was downright selfish. - Author: James Patterson

#13. In poetry everything which must be said is almost impossible to say well. - Author: Paul Valery

#14. My hunch is that people often affiliate with causes online for selfish and narcissistic purposes. Sometimes, it may be as simple as trying to impress their online friends, and once you have fashioned that identity, there is very little reason to actually do anything else. - Author: Evgeny Morozov

#15. A free society that allows each individual to seek his or her own selfish ends (without deliberately trying to harm anyone else) will produce a state in which everyone's interest is optimized without any individual knowing in advance what that state might be. - Author: Stuart Kauffman

#16. When I had been a film critic for ten minutes, I treated Doris Day as a target for cheap shots. I have learned enough to say today that the woman was remarkably gifted. - Author: Roger Ebert

#17. When you talk of not wanting children, it is impossible to avoid sounding defensive, like you're trying to prove the questionable beauty of a selfish and too-tidy existence. - Author: Meghan Daum

#18. She refuses to support the slogan - Men are equal to women - if this translates to her femininity being faded out or confused by trying to please a selfish idea of anyone wanting a woman to be both herself and a man. - Author: Gloria D. Gonsalves

#19. Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life. - Author: Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

#20. Horseracing and ranch horses are two different animals. You're getting race horses out and running and running them. It can be really problematic. A thoroughbred's very delicate. - Author: Dennis Quaid

#21. It may be a brief interruption - just a few seconds - but what if someone sitting near you is trying to make a decent bootleg? Did you ever think of that? Now all those street-corner copies are permanently defiled by your so-called 'emergency.' Don't be so damn selfish. - Author: Brad Pitt

#22. Diesel had gotten his nickname because he was built like a Mack truck. .... He stood six feet, six inches tall and his muscles had muscles. - Author: Amanda Carlson

#23. I've learnt an enormous amount from my children. Mostly that my agenda isn't the most important thing in the world. For a while, I was trying to squeeze them into my life. And it was such torment! It makes you realise how selfish you are. - Author: Toby Stephens

#24. Feel pity for the person who judged you rudely. For they are selfish in their judgment, trying to make their life feel just a little bit better. It was never about you it was all about them. - Author: Ron Baratono

#25. Our little Spaceship Earth is only eight thousand miles in diameter, which is almost a negligible dimension in the great vastness of space. - Author: R. Buckminster Fuller

#26. We're all born with selfish desires, so we can all relate to those feelings in others. But kindness is something made individually by each person ... so it's easy to misunderstand when others are trying to be kind to you. - Author: Natsuki Takaya

#27. An imaginative mind is a place where you can find magic. - Author: Debasish Mridha

#28. I pace the room, trying to figure out a solution. She can't stay here. But I want her to stay. I can't share a bathroom with her, but I don't really want anyone else to share a bathroom with her, either. I'm a little bit selfish, apparently. - Author: Colleen Hoover

#29. I'm trying to teach people not to be selfish. That's the thing. If you have a good thing share it. Of course we're not in a sexual relationship. - Author: Jhene Aiko

#30. I'm so sorry," said Kevin. "So selfish. I'm actually totally selfish, but I've been trying to cut back. - Author: Z.A. Maxfield

#31. Don't be jealous of my genius. - Author: Derek Landy

#32. But have you never noticed that when one has been trying to do something really good one is much nearer committing some special sin than when one keeps on in the selfish, matter-of-fact prudence of minding one's own business, and that alone? - Author: Geraldine Jewsbury