Peter Hitchens Quotes

I am probably the most selfish man you will ever meet in your life. No one gets the satisfaction or the joy that I get out of seeing kids realize there is hope.

My work life is intense. But I love what I do.

I don't want to spend my life doing jobs that I don't care about.

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.

Man is essentially a selfish creature. The differences in the degree with which this developed are infinite.

People think that at the end of the day a man is the only answer. Actually, a fulfilling job is better for me.

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

Every forward is selfish, and any forward who tells you he is not selfish is a liar.

Selfishness is one of the more common faces of pride. 'How everything affects me' is the center of all that matters - self-conceit, self-pity, worldly self-fulfillment, self-gratification, and self-seeking.

It's more interesting isn't it, if I've got a hedonistic dark side?

I only pray when it suits my own needs. I'm not proud about that.

This has resulted in more and more people becoming inner-directed and having as their only goal, getting as much as they can get out of the system and putting as little into it as possible.

I'm just selfish. I have to be for what I do.

Work is both my living and my pleasure.

Going to work is probably my favorite thing to do. I do that five days a week for probably ten hours a day, but it doesn't even feel like work and it shouldn't. When you enjoy a job so much like I do, it's not work, it's play.

The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.

I want to have a good time myself. I don't want to dread going to work no matter what the gig is. I think, selfishly, I will make sure that I have a good time; how about that?

Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.

I'm selfish.

Find your passion is in life, and do what you can to integrate that into your work life. That's not to say you won't have occasional frustrations in your job - that just goes with the territory - but at least you'll feel better inside, and that, over time, will mean more to you than you might think.

It's an ugly thing to see ambition and to see people satisfying themselves.

What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.