If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed. — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature-oppositi on to it is in his love of justice. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Stop being self-absorbed, get out of your cocoon, and search for a purpose that will add meaning and excitement in your life. — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
Those who joined us for selfish personal reasons, for a career or other motives will be the ones to leave. — Janos Kadar Copy Share Image
Imagine what we could accomplish if we weren't jealous, selfish, and trying to compete with one another. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Those who have much are often greedy. Those who have little always share. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The day you finally decide to LOVE me will be after the day I have given up on chasing you. — Wandini Copy Share Image
Oh please forgive me, I was in the hospital still recovering from my car accident when you stumped your toe… — Patrina Copy Share Image
Actors - we're selfish, but we can't think about the work in that kind of selfish manner. I think that you have… — Charlize Theron Copy Share Image
I'm not a greedy man; there really is nothing I couldn't live without. But if there was a fire, and I saved… — Kid Rock Copy Share Image
“Setting boundaries is a way of caring for myself. It doesn't make me mean, selfish, or uncaring because I don't do things… — Christine Morgan Copy Share Image
“We have listened to the voices of hate, the voices of selfish unreason for far too long. Only the voices of peace… — Laurence Overmire Copy Share Image
It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a 'higher standard of living than any have ever… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
“The moral test of government is how it treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
About when to let others sacrifice themselves for you, even if its selfish. They say that if the sacrifice is the ultimate… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“The most important form of selfishness involves spending time on your fitness, eating right, pursuing your career, and still spending quality time… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
The selfish and usually pointless approach is to try to get both done simultaneously - accomplish your work at hand while begging… — Bob Saget Copy Share Image
“Whenever we take the focus off ourselves and move it outward, we benefit. Life's most fortunate ironies are that what's best for… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
“For me the real evil of masturbation would be that it takes an appetite which, in lawful use, leads the individual out… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Neither the great political and financial power structures of the world, nor the specialization-blinded professionals, nor the population in general realize that...it… — Tzm Team Copy Share Image
I don't know how you make decisions in your life, but I weigh lots of things, and it's not always the purest… — J. C. Chandor Copy Share Image
If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts… — Sachin Tendulkar Copy Share Image
Sometimes, break ups and divorce is the best gift you can have in life. In the beginning it may seem like the… — Merle Rutledge Jr Copy Share Image
Selfishness is when we pursue gain at the expense of others. But God doesn’t have a limited number of treasures to distribute.… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
Selfishness is a bad habit. Thats why I always rationally think through my decisions to act without regard for others. — Benson Bruno Copy Share Image
It's almost selfishness, taking care of your mental health. You can't just not do it. — Roz Chast Copy Share Image
We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness behind. — John H. Groberg Copy Share Image
An artist has to be selfish; otherwise, he's not true to his own art. — Peter Frampton Copy Share Image
Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it. — Douglas Horton Copy Share Image
Along with selfishness, anger is one of the most serious problems facing the world today — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The craziest, most selfish act is to commit suicide. When you kill yourself, you kill others. — Jenny Joseph Copy Share Image
To be selfish is to sacrifice the nobler for the meaner ends, and to be sordidly content. — Hugh Reginald Haweis Copy Share Image
The endeavor to change universal power by selfish supplication I do not believe in. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
there were people who occupied telephone booths as though they had rented them for the day. — Ursula Curtiss Copy Share Image
One of the unseen benefits of having children is that they deliver you from your own selfishness. There's no going back. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Please tell the greedy people who wants to be buried with money. Life is love, self centered people are not worth it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we do not cling to riches, selfishness or greed-then I believe we are getting closer to God. — Daniel Ortega Copy Share Image
Legal plunder has two roots: One, as we have just seen, is in human selfishness; the other is in false philanthropy. — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
The man who lives by himself and for himself is likely to be corrupted by the company he keeps. — Charles Henry Parkhurst Copy Share Image
