#selfish

I'm just selfish. I have to be for what I do. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#i do #just #selfish

But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of the American Negro, in classic musical form. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

#american #classic #desire #felt #form

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision. ↗

— Helen Keller

#complaint #joy #love #mind #pervert

I didn't do this for other people; I did this for me. I fought for this right for me - does that sound selfish? ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

#does #fought #i #me #other

In order to be able to give a girlfriend the amount of time she deserves, you would need time, and I just can't give her that. So, rather than being selfish or stupid enough to go into a relationship, it's just been easier to be single. ↗

— Ryan Kwanten

#amount #been #being #being selfish #deserves

Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome. ↗

— George Santayana

#infinitude #man #once #overcome #own

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#disturbs #find #me #men #mischievous

Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#selfishness

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

Our true passions are selfish. ↗

— Stendhal

#passions #selfish #true