#selfish

I am confident that nobody... will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#also #am #ask #confident #family

Being selfish to me means that you have to look out for yourself and you don't have to sacrifice. ↗

— Herbie Mann

#being selfish #look #me #means #out

Being stubborn has helped, being selfish is not a bad thing. ↗

— Herbie Mann

#bad thing #being #being selfish #helped #selfish

A selfish man is a thief. ↗

— Jose Marti

#man #selfish #selfish man #thief

Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue. ↗

— John Henry Newman

#brings #cultivate #gain #highest #never

The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower. ↗

— Florence Nightingale

#lazy #make #martyr #more #narrow

Romance is alive and well in America, but the 50 percent who can't make it work fail because of selfishness. It gets down to that. You can't oversimplify it because every situation is so complex. ↗

— Donny Osmond

#america #because #complex #down #every

Yet, while producing increasingly selfish people, the mantra of the Left, and therefore of the universities and the media, has been for generations that capitalism and the free market, not the welfare state, produces selfish people. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#capitalism #free #free market #generations #increasingly

Sure, I have friends, plenty of friends, and they all come around wantin' to borrow money. I've always been generous with my friends and family, with money, but selfish with the important stuff like love. ↗

— Richard Pryor

#around #been #borrow #come #family

I am the most unselfish chef in Britain today. ↗

— Gordon Ramsay

#britain #chef #i #i am #most