Selfishness Quotes · Page 21

Decidedly it will never have been given to me to finish anything, except perhaps breathing. One must not be greedy.

— Samuel Beckett

Take the selfishness out of anger and you're left with determination.

— Bernie Glassman

People are selfish, man. They want what they want; they don't care what you want.

— Vinnie Paul

“The irony of collective ownership is that it spurs more selfishness than does private ownership.”

— Eric Robert Morse

One of the worst things in sports is when selfishness gets disguised as truth.

— Jemele Hill

The idea of strictly minding our own business is moldy rubbish. Who could be so selfish?

— Ritu

It is to be doubted whether he will ever find the way to heaven who desires to go thither alone.

— Owen Feltham

“Avoiding pain causes endless suffering for you and others. Avoiding pain is really selfishness.”

— Bryant McGill

There is little hope of the repentance and redemption of certain some until they have committed one or another of the many…

— George MacDonald

“In every instance I noted that a people’s prosperity or misery lay in direct proportion to its freedom or its inhibitions and,…

— José Rizal

“Most parents are not really ‘supportive’ because they want their kid(s) to succeed; they ‘support’ their kid(s) as an attempt to avoid…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

To feel much for others and little for ourselves, that to restrain our selfish, and to indulge our benevolent affections, constitutes the…

— Adam Smith

“You can be bit in the leg by a rattlesnake and seek help to heal your wound, or you can run after…

— Shannon L. Alder

Whether It's: Love, Hatred, Happiness, Sadness, Kindness, Evilness, Meanness, Selflessness, Selfishness, Laughing, Lies, Honesty…The More You Give The More You Receive.

— Honeybluntz

There are selves too big for one person to contain. You cannot call them selfish. There is nothing -ish about such selves.…

— P. J. O'Rourke

“I agree with Rand that human nature is selfish, that we should help ourselves first and foremost. . . . Where I…

— Robert Peate

“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness…

— Oscar Wilde

“In ethics [Aristotle] had two bright ideas. First, that extreme behavior of selfishness and self-sacrifice don't work for most people; look for…

— Norman F. Cantor

“What our generation is in danger of forgetting is not only that morals are of necessity a phenomenon of individual conduct but…

— F. A. Hayek

Its just nothing,say sorry… And keep on moving that's your life no matter what other think about you…… but that's isn't the…

— Nirnaya Basnet

“The most important form of selfishness involves spending time on your fitness, eating right, pursuing your career, and still spending quality time…

— Scott Adams

“She leaned back in her chair and raised her face to the sun, mildly intoxicated, not so much by the wine as…

— Anita Brookner

One of the most painful things in the Western States and Territories is the extinction of childhood. I have never seen any…

— Isabella Bird

We legislate against forestalling and monopoly; we would have a common granary for the poor; but the selfishness which hoards thecorn for…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is the door through which we pass from selfishness to service

— Mariane Corbito

Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.

— Anonymous

I don't think the revisionist historians are accurate. I think their agendas are clouded by selfishness and anger and rage.

— Sherman Alexie

& I was fooled by his deceitful eyes, They were as blue as the ocean, And just like the ocean, They were…

— Anonymous

“Sacrifice” and “self” both begin with the same letter, but the spelling is way different after that.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Time is a greedy player who wins without cheating, every round”

— Anonymous

I am a greedy actor in the sense that I like the big bites. Put a big fat steak in front of…

— Tyne Daly

If a genie offered you one wish, you'd probably waste it on yourself.

— Deri Isaac

And when you love somebody enough its okay to be a little selfish. -Shawn

— Boy Meets World

I'm not selfish before a fight or afterwards, but for the time of the fight itself, I have to think totally of…

— Naseem Hamed

My life is full of disrespectful selfish inconsiderate people. Gonna meet new people this year that actually have hearts.

— Anonymous

Selfishness draws men into a spiritual vacuum where, absorbed in self service, they shut out all others.

— William R. Bradford

So it is the fear, weakness, selfishness, and cowardice of onlookers that permit evil behavior to persist.

— Anonymous

Live your life as you see fit. That's not selfish. Selfish is to demand that others live their lives as you see…

— Anthony de Mello

Take the selfishness out of this world and there would be more happiness than we should know what to do with.

— Josh Billings

I have freedom. But freedom means total selfishness. It means nobody cares much what you do.

— Lynn Barber