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Be Selfish Quotes

Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless.
- Edward Albert

I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish... You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.
- Simone De Beauvoir

Men tend to be selfish.
- Caprice Bourret

I recognize that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognize that you can't be happy if you only care about yourself at the expense of other people.
- Russell Brand

Gods tend to be selfish. Even when they're helpful, they always have their own motives. That's why you have to be careful about trusting them.
- Rick Riordan

Be selfish, be unreasonable, and don't worry about it. We're girls, so we are allowed. Being a girl is a privilege, and we should take full advantage of that fact. We have the right and the duty to act as we please. But a boy who makes a girl cry is worthless and he brings shame into the romance and makes it untrue.
- Clamp

To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate.
- Michael Jordan

You have to be selfish to be an actor.
- Charles Dance

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.
- Lydia Davis

Too unconcerned to love and too passionless to hate, too detached to be selfish and too lifeless to be unselfish, too indifferent to experience joy and too cold to express sorrow, they are neither dead nor alive; they merely exist.
- Martin Luther King Jr

You'll be a good parent when you're ready to no longer be selfish. Until I was about 35, it was all about me. I look back and I'm astonished at how I lived my life - it was totally self-involved.
- Lauren Holly

That's okay. You an be selfish with me all you want. I'm yours.
- Abbi Glines

It's enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back.
- Adrian Grenier

Don't be selfish and keep your thoughts locked in the cage called your skull. Free your mind, release your thoughts into the world, and free yourself in the process.
- Jarod Kintz

Now is the one time in my life I can be 100% selfish. I'm not married; I don't have kids; I can focus on my career.
- Kim Kardashian

You can't be selfish. But we men-it's a wonder we forget ourselves long enough to buy a birthday card. As for love... we can love, but we're always forgetting.
- Tobias Wolff

A selfless act out of even the purest desire to do for others, will be selfish in the satisfaction and happiness it brings to one doing it.
- Ashly Lorenzana

I remember Robyn saying once 'Talking about yourself can be selfish or generous'. When I asked what she meant, she said: 'If you never talk about yourself, about your problems and stuff, that's selfish, because you're not giving your friends a chance to help you. And if you talk about yourself all the time, you're selfish and boring.
- John Marsden

God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness and wake us up to the presence of others in this world, and that mechanism is called suffering.
- William Nicholson

I know that some of the spiritual beliefs that I have are that if I come from a place of love, and I try to get out of my ego and my desire to want more and be selfish in any shape or form, then whatever I'm doing is not good.
- Amber Valletta

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