Selfishness Quotes
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Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. (Quote by - Martin Luther King, Jr.)
All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness (Quote by - Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Next to the very young, the very old are the most selfish. (Quote by - William Makepeace Thackeray)
Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak. (Quote by - Madame de Stael)
Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves. (Quote by - Gene Fowler)
The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others. (Quote by - B. C. Forbes)
Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness. (Quote by - Percy Bysshe Shelley)
Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind because the truth lies elsewhere (Quote by - Blaise Pascal)
Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism. (Quote by - Sir Arthur Helps)
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness. (Quote by - Napoleon Hill)
Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion. (Quote by - Franklin D. Roosevelt)
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears. (Quote by - Cesare Pavese)
A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Sordid selfishness doth contract and narrow our benevolence, and cause us, like serpents, to infold ourselves within ourselves, and to turn out our stings to the entire world besides. (Quote by - Sir Walter Scott)
Selfishness, not love, is the actuating motive of the gallant. (Quote by - Mme. Roland)
Offended self-love never forgives. (Quote by - Giovanni Ruffini)
My desire for the part of Mammy was not dominated by selfishness for Hollywood has been good to me and I am grateful. (Quote by - Hattie McDaniel)
If all the people in this world, in which we live, were as selfish as a few of the people in this world, in which we live, there would be no world in which to live. (Quote by - W. L. Orme)
Take the selfishness out of this world and there would be more happiness than we should know what to do with. (Quote by - Henry Wheeler Shaw)
The man who lives by himself and for himself is likely to be corrupted by the company he keeps. (Quote by - Charles H. Parkhurst)
Selfishness is the making a man's self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doeth. (Quote by - John Owen)
Next to the very young, the very old are the most selfish. (Quote by - William Makepeace Thackeray)
The force of selfishness is as inevitable and as calculable as the force of gravitation. (Quote by - Hailliard)
Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express. (Quote by - George A. Smith)
Glory built on selfish principles is shame and guilt. (Quote by - William Cowper)
You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish. (Quote by - Anita Brookner)
That man who lives for self alone, Lives for the meanest mortal known. (Quote by - Joaquin Miller)
Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself. (Quote by - Julio Cortazar)
Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness. (Quote by - Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it. (Quote by - Edgar Watson Howe)
He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies. (Quote by - Tertullian)
Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it. (Quote by - Douglas Horton)
Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives. (Quote by - Lawana Blackwell)
The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others. (Quote by - B. C. Forbes)
We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice. (Quote by - Elihu Root)
Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves. (Quote by - Gene Fowler)
The selfishness must be discovered and understood before it can be removed. It is powerless to remove itself, neither will it pass away of itself. Darkness ceases only when light is introduced; so ignorance can only be dispersed by Knowledge; selfishness by Love. (Quote by - James Allen)
Modesty and unselfishness: These are the virtues which men praise, and pass by. (Quote by - Andre Maurois)
As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed and selfishness prevent that and there is always one bad apple in every barrel. (Quote by - Rick Danko)
We are too much haunted by ourselves; we project the central shadow of ourselves on everything around us. And then comes in the gospel to rescue us from this selfishness. Redemption is this--to forget self in God. (Quote by - Frederick William Robertson)
Glory built on selfish principles is shame and guilt. (Quote by - William Cowper)
Selfishness, if but reasonably tempered with wisdom, is not such an evil trait. (Quote by - Giovanni Ruffini)
To be saved is only this,--salvation from our own selfishness. (Quote by - John Greenleaf Whittier)
Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion. (Quote by - John Comenius)
Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness. (Quote by - Honore De Balzac)
The man who lives by himself and for himself is likely to be corrupted by the company he keeps. (Quote by - Charles H. Parkhurst)
Let us reject violence and selfishness which could destroy our country's unity. (Quote by - Mwai Kibaki)
Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness. (Quote by - Woodrow Wilson)
Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires. (Quote by - Lao Tzu)
SELFISH, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
How sick one gets of being "good," how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness. (Quote by - Alice James)
knowledge is hidden by selfish desire - hidden by this unquenchable fire for self-satisfaction. (Quote by - Bhagavad-Gita)
The greatest productive force is human selfishness. (Quote by - Robert A. Heinlein)
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. (Quote by - Gustave Flaubert)
Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race. (Quote by - William E. Gladstone)
Self is ingenious, crooked, and, governed by subtle and snaky desire, admits of endless turnings and qualifications, and the deluded worshippers of self vainly imagine that they can gratify every worldly desire, and at the same time possess the Truth (Quote by - James Allen)
Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without in himself. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
Selfishness at the expense of others' happiness is demonism. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
I was surprised by how much I like being a father; surprised at what a decent father I am, because I was afraid I wouldn't be able to dump my selfishness. (Quote by - Michael Zaslow)
You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish. (Quote by - Anita Brookner)
The fondness we have for self furnishes another long rank of prejudices. (Quote by - Isaac Watts)
The selfish man cuts away the sand from under his own feet, he digs his own grave; and every time, from the beginning of the world until now, God Almighty pushes him into the grave and covers him up. (Quote by - Charles Henry Fowler)
