Anthony Kiedis Quotes

I don't know if it's ever OK for someone to be selfish. Perhaps there's a time and place to be self-centered, but I think selfish never wins the race.

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.

Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.

There is a difference between being self-interested and being selfish. I will never be selfish.

Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to balance it against the altruism to which we should all aspire. It is a difficult balance to strike, but no definition of goodness can be complete without it.

He who doesn't consider himself is seldom considerate of others.

I've certainly had a lot of experiences in my life where I was much too self-centered.

I'm not very interested in myself. I do have a deep moral belief that you should always look out at other things and not be self-centred.

I made a promise to myself to be kinder to other people.

Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless.

In my mind, as long as I did what was right for me, I was cool. But that's not the way it works. You have to think about other people and take their feelings into account.

Where I once believed people were there to be used, I started thinking of other people first.

I'm not selfish at all.

When you go out there and do the things you're supposed to do, people view you as selfish.

The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.

I was brought up not to be selfish or self-centered. So if you play somebody who isn't so lovable, you can play that person and no one will turn on you. I don't want to play that person in real life. Because then people won't like me so much.

That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.

I'm not a selfish person, I don't think.

My personal philosophy is that people should be extremely selfish for the first half of their life and extremely unselfish for the second half because then they can do the most good.

I just try to do the best I can for myself and the people around me.

I will try and become a very empathetic person because I do think that's a nice trait.

Those who slog with the intent to bring happiness to others will always be liked.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

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

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.