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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

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

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

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, Turn, Against

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, Other, Wanting

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

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

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

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

Relationships, Some

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

Loving, Either, Persons

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

Never, Self-Centered, Other

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

I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy, and driven. Barbra Streisand

Beautiful, I Am, Lazy

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

Vain, Rather, Obstinate

I recognize that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognize that you can't be happy if you only care about yourself at the expense of other people. Russell Brand

Happy, Other, About

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, Distance, Bad

A selfish man is a thief. Jose Marti

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

Big, Always, Very

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

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself. Khalil Gibran

Wisdom, Proud, Other

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, Sacrifice, Conditional

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

Family, Fact, Pleasure

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