#selfish

We make music for a living. Like I've always said, if you like what you're doing, you're halfway there; if someone else likes it, that's even better. If they don't like it, at least you like it. Not to be selfish, but you kind of have to be. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#better #doing #else #even #halfway

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

Racing is a very selfish, self-centred, self-glorifying thing. My wife's life for 14 years was centered around me. It was all about me. It was all for my ego. ↗

— Greg LeMond

#around #centered #ego #life #me

I am probably the most selfish man you will ever meet in your life. No one gets the satisfaction or the joy that I get out of seeing kids realize there is hope. ↗

— Jerry Lewis

#ever #fish man #get #gets #hope

You may call me selfish if you will, conservative or reactionary, or use any other harsh adjective you see fit to apply, but an American I was born, an American I have remained all my life. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#american #any #apply #born #call

I believe in aliens. I think it would be way too selfish of us as mankind to believe we are the only lifeforms in the universe. ↗

— Demi Lovato

#i #i believe #i believe in #i think #mankind

Most of the time, the things that really change the world exist for something fundamentally selfish and then the world-changing ends up being a side-effect of that. ↗

— Andrew Mason

#change #change the world #ends #exist #fundamentally

Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by. ↗

— Andre Maurois

#modesty #pass #praise #these #unselfishness

I considered becoming a priest very seriously. I wanted to travel the world. By the time I turned 16, I realized I was only in it for selfish reasons. And, more importantly, I didn't want to sacrifice the ladies! ↗

— James McAvoy

#by the time #considered #i #importantly #ladies