Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever equalled the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“We are raised from when we are little to be generous and helpful, but the interception of greed in a select few… — Anthony Karakai Copy Share Image
When you center life around yourself, not only do you miss out on God's best, but you rob other people of the… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
Humans are selfish, and because of our innate selfishness, I'm very confident that we can overcome any amount of environmental destruction. — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
You hate selfish people. Killing yourself = Selfish. You wanted to take away my pain. Killing yourself = pain for me. Causing… — Azgraybebly Joslan Copy Share Image
Wisdom means that it gives you detachment, detachment from all that is selfishness, self-centredness, self-obsession, ego - all connected with self. — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
“Phir laa jawab kargayi mujhe teri khudgarz fitrat, Har taa'luk mita diya meine jab, Toh in khwaabon ke zariye raabta dhoond liya… — Henna Sohail Copy Share Image
The State must act as the guardian of a millennial future in the face of which the wishes and the selfishness of… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Unless we realize our sins enough to call them by name, it is hardly worth while to say anything about them at… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
It is almost impossible to overestimate the value of true humility and its power in the spiritual life. For the beginning of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
And sometimes it's the very otherness of a stranger, someone who doesn't belong to our ethnic or ideological or religious group, an… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Compassion has been advocated by all the great faiths because it has been found to be the safest and surest means of… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
There will be selfishness and greed and corruption and narrowness and intolerance in the world tomorrow and tomorrow's tomorrow. But pray God… — Harold Stassen Copy Share Image
In recent years, many seem to have spent their lives protesting. Perhaps they have felt to do this because they have felt… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
“Some take pains to be biblical, but many [Christian financial teachers, writers, investment counselors, and seminar leaders] simply parrot their secular colleagues.… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
“theory of natural selection itself seems calculated to foster selfishness at the expense of public good, violence, callous indifference to suffering, short… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Any opposition not based on rationalism or science or experience will one day or other, reveal the fraud, selfishness, lies and conspiracies. — Periyar E. V. Ramasamy Copy Share Image
You can't build marriage on a foundation of selfish hedonism, because that would be to promise people only roses, and marriage is… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
It's usually the stupid people that develop long illnesses. You need more than indolence and selfishness, you need endurance to make a… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I'm very selfish! I'm only thinking about how I would look in clothes, and not how we as a society might appear… — Alexa Chung Copy Share Image
“Let sincere men and women the world over unite in earnest effort to supplant feelings of selfishness, hatred, animosity, greed, by the… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
But the reality is we often become our kindest, most ethical selves only by seeing what it feels like to be a… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by acts of kindness from strangers.… — Carol Burnett Copy Share Image
“grew increasingly impatient and angry as I compared their selflessness and sacrifice with the self-promotion and selfishness of power-hungry politicians and others—in… — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
Its' the simple things in life, we men forget. We hear when she talks, but we don't hear what she said. We… — London Mond Copy Share Image
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places. If you cannot do great things, do small things… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
'Wild Hope' just felt like such a selfish venture to me. It was a way for me to get out of my… — Mandy Moore Copy Share Image
I've never been a selfish player. I've never been able to just say I am going as well. I've always thought about… — Jermaine Jenas Copy Share Image
“Wars come from egotism and selfishness. Every macrocosmic or world war has its origin in microcosmic wars going on inside millions and… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“When she was a child her mother had once told her shyness was almost a form of selfishness. “You see, when you… — Liane Moriarty Copy Share Image
An inextricable relationship between the foolishness and the selfishness is like that of an egg and a chicken. No one knows which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why fight the 'natural' (oh, weaselly word!) order of things? Why? Because of this--one fine day, a purely predatory world shall consume… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Thorough selfishness destroys or paralyzes enjoyment. A heart made selfish by the contest for wealth is like a citadel stormed in war,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
People who criticize The Selfish Gene like that often haven't read it. The selfish gene accounts for altruism toward kin and individuals… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Being in love , it's good to be selfish at times for your own happiness but one have to be careful that… — Ayaan Basu Copy Share Image
“At the root of every form of ungodliness, injustice, nepotism, selfishness, every rivalry and competitive jealousy, is the monster called greed.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“Love of self without love of God is selfishness; love of neighbor without love of God embraces only those who are pleasing… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“I always knew he was selfish and self-indulgent and kind of lazy; those are practically prerequisites for playing lead guitar.” — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
Everything that I do, and everything that everyone does - you're just gobbling up everything around you. Everyone's selfish - whatever you… — Alex G Copy Share Image
In a relationship, you can't just focus on yourself. You need to understand each other and PROVE that you're meant to be… — Achmad Tim Bukhari Copy Share Image
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