This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural. — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
“Take taking from those that give & nobody anywhere will need any more such gifts.” — Kenneth Patchen Copy Share Image
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“The successful are those who can be saved from their own selfishness.” — Fazlur Rahman Copy Share Image
The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Maskini mwenye pesa nyingi ni tajiri bahili. Tajiri mwenye mifuko iliyotoboka ni tajiri badhiri.” — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
“In any relationship, do what is right; not what you want to do. Eliminate selfishness. Eliminate neglect.” — Bridget Earl Pehrson Copy Share Image
“Very quickly I begin to understand the selfishness of my love, the inappropriateness of my relationships, when I realise that every time… — Luke Davies Copy Share Image
Only by realizing what selfishness and lack of generosity really are can the delicious fragrance of true love and effective generosity, which… — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
Just like self-interest is not selfishness, well, confidence is not a negative. Confidence is not an off-putting thing. It's, in fact, necessary… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Every selfish, sinful, or indulgent choice I make today is sowing a seed that will reap a multiplied harvest. And every act… — Nancy Leigh DeMoss Copy Share Image
Relationships are great when it is we instead of me being used.. but when you continually hear the word, I . I… — George Kincses Copy Share Image
I'm self-centered, inconsiderate, and what was the third adjective? Oh, yes, and I have this infantile fantasy that one day I'll amount… — Jay Presson Allen Copy Share Image
The selfishness of an age that has devoted itself to the mere cult of pleasure has tainted the whole human race with… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I''m Selfish..Impatience and a little Insecure...i make mistakes and I am out of control and in times hard to handle...but if u… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As early as 1776, [John Adams] expressed his doubts about America's capacity for virtue. "I have seen all along my Life, Such… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
“Man’s development requires his capacity to transcend the narrow prison of his ego, his greed, his selfishness, his separation from his fellow… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“It is possible that our present-day discussion about needs might be framed more by secular psychological theories than by Scripture. If this… — Edward T. Welch Copy Share Image
No man at bottom means injustice; it is always for some obscure distorted image of a right that he contends: an obscure… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
We're into an age of excessive individuals, all right. We're into the age were independence, autonomy, convenience, sometimes selfishness. The new trinity… — Timothy M. Dolan Copy Share Image
“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
INEITHER want those people in my life who cling to me in their bad days and forget me in times of their… — Aruna Rai Copy Share Image
“Selfish needs, wants, and desires needed to be obliterated. Greed, overindulgence, and gluttony had to be expunged from human behavior. The solution… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“To love can mean 'to love oneself,' and often love is no more than a juxtaposition of two solitudes.” — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
“How good is good enough,since you are only good for your selfishness.” — peter adejimi Copy Share Image
All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
While selfishness joins hands with no one of the virtues, benevolence is allied to them all. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
When you begin to act like you're the only one with problems, your selfishness begins to show your character. — Sarah Moores Copy Share Image
We are never satisfied with what we have. We want what we can't have and take the things we do have for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog. — George Graham Vest Copy Share Image
Not everyone is selfish in fashion. There are people who go to bed feeling good about themselves and then spread the love. — Alek Wek Copy Share Image
“A truly selfish man cannot be affected by the approval of others. He doesn't need it.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
You can't be faulted for being selfish if you're going to get better because of it. — Jerry Lewis Copy Share Image
My desire for the part of Mammy was not dominated by selfishness for Hollywood has been good to me and I am… — Hattie McDaniel Copy Share Image
“Selfishness may result in one's sense of superiority, but life as such will surely deny them.” — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image
Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude is, in one sense, overcome — George Santayana Copy Share Image
A lot of people were saying that I was a selfish person and a selfish player. You know, it got to me. — LeBron James Copy Share Image
I think music is a selfish masturbatory event - for the listener, the maker, the candlestick...maker. — Joshua Homme Copy Share Image
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