Putting yourself first is not selfish. Quite the opposite. You must put your happiness and health first before you can be of help to anyone else.
I'm at the point of view that I have to look after myself in various levels.
You can't be faulted for being selfish if you're going to get better because of it.
I think my mother taught me what not to do. She put us first, always, sometimes to the detriment of herself. She encouraged me not to do that. She'd say being a good mother isn't all about sacrificing; it's really investing and putting yourself higher on your priority list.
One must learn to care for oneself first, so that one can then dare to care for someone else.
No boy is worth your teenage years!.
Make sure you have your own life before becoming someone's wife ~spoken to Oprah in an interview
If I should sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure, that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.
There comes a time when you roll up your sleeves and put yourself at the top of your commitment list.
How inexplicable it seems. Anything else will be accepted as a better excuse. If one sets aside time for a business appointment, a trip to the hairdresser, a social engagement or a shopping expedition, that time is accepted as inviolable. But if one says: I cannot come because that is my hour to be alone, one is considered rude, egotistical or strange.
I think I just gotta get more selfish.
Look out for number one and try not to step in number two.
When you're competing, you need to be selfish. You need to think of yourself first.
Their mother had always stressed the importance of taking care of yourself first, your family second and everyone else not at all.. darkest surrender
Don't you love nobody better'n you do yo'self. Do, you'll be dying befo' yo' time is out.
It's not healthy to ever put someone first before yourself.
I'm just selfish. I have to be for what I do.
I find that if I've taken care of myself first, I can then be there fully for everyone else.
I'm trying to keep my own house from burning down. I can't worry about someone else's house.
Vladimir did great things—so could she. Besides, they come first, right?" "Not always." I stared. I'd had they come first drilled into me since I was a child. It was what all guardians believed. Only the dhampirs who'd run away from their duty didn't subscribe to that. What he said was almost like treason. "Sometimes, Rose, you have to know when to put yourself first.
Each for himself is still the rule We learn it when we go to school The devil take the hindmost, O!
Make sure you have your own mask on, before helping others with theirs.
Women need to turn their attention from saving their spouse, their mothers, their this, their that, their kids, to putting that financial oxygen mask on their face first. When they're solid, they can pick up the whole world.
