#selfish

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

#born #great #great achievement #never #result

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

#astonished #back #good #good parent #how

I know that sounds selfish, but you have to look at what it's doing to you personally - are you frustrated because of the way people perceive you, or are you happy enough about the things you've realized about yourself that you can tolerate the way people perceive you? ↗

— Shannon Hoon

#because #doing #enough #frustrated #happy

Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it. ↗

— Douglas Horton

#after #being #highest #only #seeing

It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it. ↗

— E. W. Howe

#cold #friendship #get #may #most

Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears. ↗

— Leigh Hunt

#both #given #people #selfish #tears

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully. ↗

— Richard Bach

#conscience #honesty #listen #measure #selfishness

I like working with kids because I enjoy seeing the looks on their faces and, it's kind of selfish, I want a future audience. ↗

— Joshua Bell

#because #enjoy #faces #future #i

Men tend to be selfish. ↗

— Caprice Bourret

#selfish #tend

We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that he deserved to suffer what he did suffer is to do violence not merely to language but to any healthy moral sense. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#assert #deserved #did #folly #healthy