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The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places.

Bryant H. McGill

I was given such a great gift. It's a miracle that never stops amazing me and reminding me to give thanks, every day. Having a wife and daughter gives me a lot more purpose. I was much more selfish before, but now I think about what kind of role model I'll be. I just want to be a better man. Jake Owen

Thankful, Gift, I Think

I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best. Marilyn Monroe

Best, Mistakes, Hell

The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places. - Bryant H. McGill

The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places. Bryant H. McGill

Hide, Not Fair, High Places

My son's the most precious thing to me; he's changed me from being selfish to selfless. - Ricardo Antonio Chavira

My son's the most precious thing to me; he's changed me from being selfish to selfless. Ricardo Antonio Chavira

Precious, Being Selfish

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

Work, Striving, Very

Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless. - Edward Albert

Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless. Edward Albert

Selfless, Sometimes, You

People are so selfish. Those you help are the ones who turn against you. Munshi Premchand

Help, Against, Turn

The only difference between a hero and the villain is that the villain chooses to use that power in a way that is selfish and hurts other people. Chadwick Boseman

Other, Use, Only Difference

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes. Andrew Jackson

Government, Powerful, Too

Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either. Erich Fromm

Loving, Either, Persons

All these walls that keep us from loving each other as one family or one race - racism, religion, where we grew up, whatever, class, socioeconomic - what makes us be so selfish and prideful, what keeps us from wanting to help the next man, what makes us be so focused on a personal legacy as opposed to the entire legacy of a race. Kanye West

Next, Wanting, Other

Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt. - William Cowper

Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt. William Cowper

Guilt, Shame, Built

It's good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people. Hugh Hefner

Never, Self-Centered, Other

Some people are selfish in all of their relationships. Those people are called sociopaths. Adam Grant

Relationships, Some

People are so docile right now. It is almost as if good government means when the politicians lie to us for our own good, for the public good, and bad government is when politicians lie for their own selfish interests. James Bovard

Bad, Almost, Docile

With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone. Buddha

Rather, Vain, Obstinate

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Richard Dawkins

Generosity, Altruism, Let Us

It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That's why we're here, after all, to help others. Carol Burnett

Feel, Here, Been

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

More, Unjust, Mischievous

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. Gustave Flaubert

Happiness, Stupid, Stupidity

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. Michael Jordan

Touch, Level, Highest Level

It's enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back. Adrian Grenier

Happiness, True Happiness

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

Flattery, Sometimes, Pursuit

A faithful woman can become a devoted daughter of God - more concerned with being righteous than with being selfish, more anxious to exercise compassion than to exercise dominion, more committed to integrity than to notoriety. And she knows of her own infinite worth. Russell M. Nelson

Woman, Concerned, Dominion

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

Always, Big, Very

I knew a homeless guy who'd give all the copper coins that people gave him to charity. So I think there's something that makes us want to give. For me, it's quite a selfish luxury: you feel enlivened, deepened and self-nurtured by generosity. Tamsin Greig

Feel, I Think, Guy

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