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Be not selfish in your doings: pass it on. -- Bob Marley
Self-care is not selfish. You cannot serve from an empty vessel. -- Eleanor Brown
It's not selfish to give TO yourself as much as you give OF yourself -- Suze Orman
It is not selfish or narcissistic to love yourself. It is your first and foremost responsibility. -- Alan Cohen
True love is not selfish. In time it accustoms itself to anything which secures happiness for its object. -- Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
Live your life as you see fit. That's not selfish. Selfish is to demand that others live their lives as you see fit. -- Anthony de Mello
If you're not selfish enough to want to feel good, then you can't connect with the energy that is your Source which does always feel good. -- Esther Hicks
Love is not selfish or unkind. Nor is it boastful or disloyal. Love is simply a deep feeling found within the heart that money cannot buy. -- April Haney
Putting yourself first is not selfish. Quite the opposite. You must put your happiness and health first before you can be of help to anyone else. -- Simon Sinek
An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness. -- Clara Barton
Good travels at a snail's pace. Those who want to do good are not selfish, they are not in a hurry, they know that to impregnate people with good requires a long time. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses. -- Oscar Wilde
It is not selfish to be happy. It is your highest purpose. Your joy is the greatest contribution you can make to life on the planet. A heart at peace with its owner blesses everyone it touches. -- Alan Cohen
God is not harsh; He is holy. He is not selfish; He is sovereign. He is not unfeeling; He is all-knowing. Like David, we need to come to know Him, and respect Him; and, like David, we will love Him more. -- Beth Moore
In my final years in Green Bay, when I wasn't getting the ball, people would ask me why I never complained. 'Because these guys are my family,' I would say. 'I'm not selfish. It's not about me. It's about these guys, my family, and winning championships together. -- Donald Driver
Love is the key to the mystery. Love by its very nature is not selfish, but generous. It seeks not its own, but the good of others. The measure of love is not the pleasure it gives-that is the way the world judges it-but the joy and peace it can purchase for others. -- Fulton J. Sheen
Humility is the essence of repentance. Humility is selfless, not selfish. It doesn't demand its own way or speak with moral superiority. Instead, humility answers softly and listens kindly for understanding, not vindication. Humility recognizes that no one can change someone else, but with faith, effort, and the help of God, we can undergo our own mighty change of heart. -- L. Whitney Clayton
Since the real purpose of meditation is to increase our capacity to help others, taking time each day to meditate is not selfish. We have to manage our time and energy in such a way that we can be of maximum benefit to others, and to do this we need time alone to recover our strength, collect our thoughts, and see things in perspective -- Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Casting a spell, in self-defense or in self-interest is not selfish, but positive, life-affirming. You have been given powers, the very same powers that society devalues... What if it comes back tenfold? Well, don't be a fool. Never use your magick to attack the innocent. Then you have nothing to fear... Don't be frivolous or cowardly. If your course is righteous, and your tools ready, go to it. -- Zsuzsanna Budapest
Is not sorrow, all sorrow, selfish? -- Abby May Alcott
Being stubborn has helped, being selfish is not a bad thing. -- Herbie Mann
The happiest is the man who is not at all selfish. -- Swami Vivekananda
I want to live not for selfish gain, but for selfless devotion. -- Tanner Di Bella
When I was young, I was very selfish, now not any more. -- Indira Gandhi
If you are not selfish and greedy, you picked up riches along the street. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
The endeavor to change universal power by selfish supplication I do not believe in. -- Thomas A. Edison
It is the liberal philosophy, not the conservative one, that views humans as selfish automatons. -- Allen West
I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. -- Jane Austen
That's the point of music, to not be selfish and to help other people, I think. -- Zac Farro
Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either. -- Erich Fromm
Learning to not be selfish is what has changed in me the most since being married. -- Blake Shelton
It's good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people. -- Hugh Hefner
A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's. -- Richard Whately
Marriage is just an elaborate game that allows two selfish people to periodically feel that they're not. -- Paul Reiser
I think sometimes for me that sounds like almost being selfish. I am not about personal records. -- Pat Summitt
The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places. -- Bryant H. McGill
I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me. -- Alfred North Whitehead
I do not think it is selfish to want to donate a kidney "only" to family members. -- Mallory Ortberg
Marriage is a mystery and part of it is just being kind to each other, not being selfish. -- Aisha Tyler
You should sub a player out when you see a player not going full-speed or playing selfish basketball. -- Dean Smith
I'm not a selfish actor. I believe that it's a team effort. You're not in a scene by yourself. -- Taraji P. Henson
Everyone has to contribute to the common good. To not do so can be described in one word: selfish. -- Randy Pausch
The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we're so busy now. -- Phil McGraw
Not by mere eloquence, nor by handsome appearance, does a man become good-natured, should he be jealous, selfish and deceitful. -- Gautama Buddha
The greatest moments in life are not concerned with selfish achievements, but rather with the things we do for others -- Walt Disney
He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed.... -- Jane Austen
Courage... is not a selfish attribute: it is only possible if you are pursuing a wider and more worthy goal. -- Ted Malloch
One player's selfish attitude can poison a locker room and make it hard, if not impossible, to establish team work -- Dean Smith
A selfish basis would not serve the purpose of taking a man higher and higher along the paths of evolution. -- Mahatma Gandhi
It can be rebuilt if other countries with selfish interests will not meddle, as has been done in the past. -- Bulent Ecevit
Grief is selfish. It is indulged in for self-gratification, not for love. Cosmic man knows the beauty and unreality of death. -- Walter Russell
Good mothers make all kinds of choices. Making a decision that might sound selfish does not make a woman a bad mother. -- Jada Pinkett Smith
Not everyone is selfish in fashion. There are people who go to bed feeling good about themselves and then spread the love. -- Alek Wek
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Selfish hedonism is not a pejorative. It is a description - an exactly accurate description of what is involved in homosexual relations. -- Alan Keyes
We express true love in obedience to God and service to others- not reckless or selfish behavior- and we choose these behaviors. -- Joshua Harris
This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself. -- Tanith Lee
Love isn't one-sided and selfish.It is full and generous and life-altering in the best of ways.Love does not destroy, Gabriel.It creates." -- Sarah MacLean
I feel it's selfish when you don't use your voice, because then you're just relishing the attention - you're not using it for good. -- Demi Lovato
Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others. -- Ouida
Today, our air, food, water-all are polluted. If we do not stop exploiting nature for our temporary selfish gains, we will destroy the world. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
Love isn't one-sided and selfish.It is full and generous and life-altering in the best of ways.Love does not destroy, Gabriel.It creates. -- Sarah MacLean
The marketplace obliges men, whether they will or not, in pursuing their own selfish interests, to connect the general good with their own individual success. -- Edmund Burke
I have another question: Hillary Clinton, lying to the American people about her selfish, awful judgment in making our secrets vulnerable.Guilty or not guilty? -- Chris Christie
Now is the one time in my life I can be 100% selfish. I'm not married; I don't have kids; I can focus on my career. -- Kim Kardashian
My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better. -- Anna Deavere Smith
I'm very selfish! I'm only thinking about how I would look in clothes, and not how we as a society might appear in those clothes. -- Alexa Chung
The more good I do, the more money has come in. You have to learn to give. You're not born to give. You're born selfish. -- Ted Turner
Try not to be four years into a relationship when it suddenly dawns on you that the guy you're with is a big, selfish jerk. -- Greg Behrendt
Be not unwilling in what thou doest, neither selfish nor unadvised nor obstinate; let not over-refinement deck out thy thought; be not wordy nor a busybody. -- Marcus Aurelius
To write an album takes so much focus and selfish time, to just write and think about your life. For me. Maybe not for other people. -- Gwen Stefani
Oh, I think I've been entirely selfish with my career. I've done what I wanted to do, and not put myself out for anyone else particularly. -- Jim Broadbent
Prayer is not the cunning art of using God, subjecting Him to one's selfish ends in an effort to get out of Him what you want. -- F. Huegel
Waking up is not a selfish pursuit of happiness, it is a revolutionary stance, from the inside out, for the benefit of all beings in existence. -- Noah Levine
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
I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US that thinks Americans are not yet selfish enough. -- Christopher Hitchens
I would have been a terrible mother because I'm basically a very selfish human being. Not that that has stopped most people going off and having children. -- Katharine Hepburn
When I do things with people it's not with the hopes of them coming back because that would be a selfish reason for me to do anything. -- Mic Geronimo
How soon the labor of men would make a paradise of the earth were it not for misgovernment and a diversion of his energies to selfish interests. -- Thomas Jefferson
I am the sort of player that likes to create goals. I think a lot of my team-mates know me as a player who is not selfish. -- Mesut Ozil
...in consequence of the film of familiarity and selfish solicitude, we have eyes yet see not, ears that hear not, and hearts that neither feel nor understand. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
All sin is selfish, whether it be lying, cheating, stealing, immorality, covetousness, or idleness. Sin is for one's own ends, not for another's-certainly not for the Lord's ends. -- Derek A. Cuthbert
The communists may not have done very well in the end, but I can't help thinking of capitalism as merely the go-to religion of the greedy and selfish. -- Pansy Schneider-Horst
I'm trying to teach people not to be selfish. That's the thing. If you have a good thing share it. Of course we're not in a sexual relationship. -- Jhene Aiko
Love is patient and kind.It's never jealous.Love is never boastful or conceited.It is never rude or selfish.It does not take offence and is not resentful -- Nicholas Sparks
A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. -- Edmund Burke
Your unhappiness doesn't help anyone else - and in fact, as I mentioned in another answer, happy people are more altruistically inclined. So happiness is not a selfish goal. -- Gretchen Rubin
There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiless, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself. -- William Hazlitt
You're terribly selfish, you know. I've loved you so long, and it was never dear or precious to you. I might as well have not loved you at all." -- Brenna Yovanoff
A system must be managed. It will not manage itself. Left to themselves in the Western world, components become selfish, competitive. We cannot afford the destructive effect of competition. -- W. Edwards Deming

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