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Sometimes in life, you have to make a selfish decision and do what's best for you.
Saquon Barkley
Life
Best
You
Selfish
Sometimes
Decision
Make
You have this one life. If you keep being selfish and unkind, it's going to come back to you.
Clemantine Wamariya
Life
You
Selfish
Unkind
Back
Come
Going
Being
Being Selfish
Keep
All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it.
David Bowie
Work
Selfish
Try
Stronger
Mistakes
Big
Second-Guess
Please
About
Audience
Always
Very
Get
It's enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back.
Adrian Grenier
Happiness
You
Selfish
True Happiness
Giving
Enough
Back
Giving Back
True
Indulge
Really
Start
In socialism, private property is anathema, and equal distribution of income the first consideration. In capitalism, private property is cardinal, and distribution left to ensue from the play of free contract and selfish interest on that basis, no matter what anomalies it may present.
George Bernard Shaw
Capitalism
Property
Selfish
Socialism
Matter
Free
First
Consideration
Anathema
Distribution
Equal
Private
Contract
Private Property
Left
May
Interest
Income
Play
Cardinal
Present
Basis
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
Gustave Flaubert
Happiness
Health
Good
Good Health
Selfish
Stupidity
Three
Stupid
Lost
Though
Lacking
Requirements
The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.
Charles Trevelyan
Character
Selfish
People
Evil
Moral
Moral Evil
Physical
Contend
Real
Famine
Which
Turbulent
Perverse
A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.
Richard Whately
Good
Man
Selfish
Own
Neglecting
Neighbor
Pursuing
His
Love exercised while duty is neglected will make children headstrong, willful, perverse, selfish, and disobedient. If stern duty is left to stand alone without love to soften and win, it will have a similar result. Duty and love must be blended in order that children may be properly disciplined.
Ellen G. White
Love
Alone
Selfish
Win
Result
Will
Duty
Soften
Neglected
Willful
Must
Similar
Properly
Blended
Stern
Headstrong
Make
Disciplined
Without
Left
May
Children
Order
While
Stand
Perverse
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
Selfish
Reward
Will
Own
Virtue
Pleasure
Religious
Only
Never
Highest
Because
Cultivate
Sake
Truest
Gain
Brings
A selfish man is a thief.
Jose Marti
Man
Selfish
Thief
If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.
Sadhu Vaswani
Love
Selfish
Love Is
Sacrifice
Something
Exchange
Devotion
Return
Without
Conditional
Conditional Love
Barter
Sometimes, idealistic people are put off the whole business of networking as something tainted by flattery and the pursuit of selfish advantage. But virtue in obscurity is rewarded only in Heaven. To succeed in this world you have to be known to people.
Sonia Sotomayor
You
Business
Selfish
People
World
Sometimes
Virtue
Something
Only
Networking
Tainted
Pursuit
Obscurity
Put
Advantage
Idealistic
Known
Off
Heaven
Rewarded
Flattery
Succeed
Whole
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
Tennessee Williams
Alone
Selfish
Lonely
Would
Would-Be
Seem
Many
I am in love with girls that are bad and naughty and badass, and a little selfish, but I like to watch from a respectful distance!
Dreama Walker
Love
Selfish
Naughty
Girl
Distance
Respectful
Bad
Like
Am
Little
Watch
The sad thing is most people have to check with someone before they do the things that make them happy. We're all passing through; the least we can do is be happy, and the only way to do that is by being selfish.
Gene Simmons
Sad
Be Happy
Selfish
Happy
People
Before
Way
Someone
Only
Through
Sad Thing
Check
Most
Make
Least
Passing
Being
Them
Being Selfish
Thing
Things
What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
Herbert Spencer
Man
Selfish
Law
Beast
Wild
Wild Beast
Cage
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
Savage
Me
Selfish
Men
Unjust
Find
See
More
Mischievous
Vulture
Wolves
Than
Ape
Base
People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. It's very selfish, but it's understandable.
Mick Jagger
You
Selfish
Youth
People
Otherwise
Obsession
Like
Because
Understandable
Were
Very
Goes
Want
If you look at life with any honesty and intelligence, it's clear that human nature is dark, vile, selfish, and despondent. But I also see a force in human nature, namely grace, that sometimes works against our natural moral entropy.
Scott Derrickson
Life
Nature
You
Selfish
Natural
Honesty
Intelligence
Grace
Vile
Dark
Sometimes
Human Nature
Our
Moral
See
Entropy
Clear
Namely
Look
Also
Force
Any
Human
Against
Works
I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me.
Alfred North Whitehead
Me
Selfish
Looking
Would
Would-Be
Boss
Billionaire
Chaos does not unify. Chaos only serves the most extreme elements of society that seek to destabilize any semblance of order to fulfill their selfish lust for power.
Daniel Lubetzky
Selfish
Power
Society
Lust
Chaos
Extreme
Seek
Only
Most
Does
Semblance
Any
Order
Unify
Fulfill
Elements
Serve
People have evolved into something selfish, greedy and intolerant. People are unaccepting, because of religion, race, gender, sexual orientation... I've seen it in punk clubs, and I've seen it in the world.
Gerard Way
Religion
Selfish
People
World
Punk
Gender
Seen
Greedy
Intolerant
Evolved
Sexual
Something
Because
Clubs
Race
Orientation
I don't know if it's ever OK for someone to be selfish. Perhaps there's a time and place to be self-centered, but I think selfish never wins the race.
Jessica Capshaw
Time
Selfish
Think
OK
Someone
Wins
Never
Self-Centered
Perhaps
Know
Place
Race
Ever
The world is so competitive, aggressive, consumive, selfish and during the time we spend here we must be all but that.
Jose Mourinho
Time
Selfish
World
Aggressive
Spend
Must
Here
Competitive
I know that sounds selfish, but you have to look at what it's doing to you personally - are you frustrated because of the way people perceive you, or are you happy enough about the things you've realized about yourself that you can tolerate the way people perceive you?
Shannon Hoon
You
Selfish
Happy
Yourself
People
Enough
Way
Perceive
About
Know
Look
Because
Doing
Sounds
Frustrated
Personally
Realized
Tolerate
Things
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