#selfish

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

The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we're so busy now. ↗

— Phil McGraw

#busy #i #i think #now #selfish

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 think I was a pretty selfish athlete. ↗

— Melanie Roach

#i #i think #pretty #selfish #think

I've been a pretty selfish mom and a very unselfish athlete for about three years now and it's time to put my family first. It's probably time to move on. ↗

— Melanie Roach

#athlete #been #family #first #i

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

#beliefs #come #desire #doing #ego

I think I could go away tomorrow. I've already accomplished something. It's such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself. ↗

— Jim Carrey

#already #away #business #could #get