A lot of comedians are selfish.

Reason tends to check selfish impulses and to grant the satisfaction of legitimate impulses in others.

Human beings are endowed by nature with both selfish and unselfish impulses.

I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses – being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.

Humans. Violent but peace-loving. Passionate but cerebral. Humane but cruel. Impulsive but calculating. Generous but selfish. And yet, somehow I knew that they represented the best hope of the galaxy.

Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest.

Since all motives at bottom are selfish and ignoble, we may judge acts and qualities only be their effects.

We must be selfish in our practice. ‘Selfish’ here is not a negative concept. This kind of selfishness doesn’t hurt anyone else, and it doesn’t mean you neglect others in any way. But it requires you to put your joy first.

Yet one more item is needed to complete success, and that is the rendering of service to others in the community. Without this the mere satisfaction of selfish desire does not reach the top notch.

Education has now become the chief problem of the world, its one holy cause. The nations that see this will survive, and those that fail to do so will slowly perish. . . . There must be re-education of the will and of the heart as well as of the intellect; and the ideals of service must supplant those of selfishness and greed.

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, What’s in it for me?

My pride, my ego, my needs, and my selfish ways Caused a good strong woman like you to walk out my life

I have always found it quaint, and rather touching, that there is a movement [Freemasonry] in the U.S. that thinks Americans are not yet selfish enough

Addicts are selfish, the most selfish people you’ll ever meet. And self-pitying. And manipulative. Always making promises they’ll never keep. They disgust me.

Customs are generally unselfish. Habits are nearly always selfish.

I think it all comes back to being very selfish as an artist. I mean, I really do just write and record what interests me and I do approach the stage shows in much the same way.

I’d like to kill you, you selfish brute. Why didn’t you leave me where you picked me out of—in the gutter? You thank God it’s all over, and that now you can throw me back again there, do you?

Selfish — a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice.

To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don’t isolate.

The ends you serve that are selfish will take you no further than yourself but the ends you serve that are for all, in common, will take you into eternity.

If you have selfish ignorant citizens, you’re gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.