#selfish

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #selfish




Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ball a lot, Stanley Matthews. Our family thought if you could be unselfish your teammates would always like you.


Adam Oates


#ball #british #could #family #father

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.


Pope John Paul II


#become #close #comfort #danger #fact

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.


Pope Paul VI


#become #block #building #building block #constantly

Of course, the idea of a six months' holiday is enough to make anyone laugh at anything, but I find that besides that I was a good deal harassed and run down, and I am glad to cut off from everything and start fresh. I feel miserably selfish about it all the time.


Richard H. Davis


#am #anyone #anything #besides #course

Strikers are egotists, selfish. We have to be.


Romario


I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.


Jane Austen


#being #i #life #my life #practice

I think we are living in selfish times. I'm the first one to say that I'm the most selfish. We live in the so-called 'first world,' and we may be first in a lot of things like technology, but we are behind in empathy.


Javier Bardem


#empathy #first #first world #i #i think

Nobody knows you as well as our spouse. And that means no one will be quicker to recognize a change when you deliberately start sacrificing your wants and wishes to make sure his or her needs are met.


Stephen Kendrick


#sacrifice #selfishness #selflessness #change

Our marriage is grounded in the word of God. That's really it. God is the core of our marriage, and the foundation and the blueprint for it is how we live, and being open and honest and communicating, but ultimately doing what pleases God, and not in a selfish manner.


Candace Cameron Bure


#blueprint #communicating #core #doing #foundation

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.


Franz Kafka


#educational #gradations #methods #parents #selfishness