#selfish

I am less selfish. But I am more insistent on being part of the creative experience. I find I am a better mother, lover and wife when I am writing. When my daughter was small I wasn't writing as much and I didn't miss it. ↗

— Helen Slater

#being #better #better mother #creative #daughter

Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak. ↗

— Madame de Stael

#err #men #selfishness #weak #women

I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#beautiful #became #before #complex #driven

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#forgive #himself #others #selfishness #vice

I was really conflicted. I had always planned to help the world. Instead, I was going to become an actress? That seemed like such a selfish thing to do. ↗

— Maria Bello

#always #become #going #had #help

I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy, and driven. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#beautiful #complex #driven #generous #i

It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#duty #easier #others #reliable #self

Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity. ↗

— William Howard Taft

#adequate #basis #effort #enlightened #enterprise

On a selfish basis, I really enjoy sports and activity. ↗

— Alan Thicke

#basis #enjoy #i #really #selfish

I think Bush has a very selfish, arrogant point of view. I think he is interested in power, I think he believes his truth is the only truth, and that he will do what he wants to do despite the people. ↗

— Harry Belafonte

#believes #bush #despite #his #i