Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles. — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
“even with selfish genes at the helm, nice guys can finish first.” — Richard Dawkins 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
Oh please forgive me, I was in the hospital still recovering from my car accident when you stumped your toe… — Patrina 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
Selfish genes actually explain altruistic individuals, and to me that's crystal-clear. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Wisdom is a distinct ability to distinguish and define effortlessly the hairline difference between Love Yourself and Your Selfishness. - — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
Personal importance, or taking things personally, is the maximum expression of selfishness because we make the assumption that everything is about me. — Miguel Angel Ruiz 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
He who does most to cure woman of her weakness, her frivolity, and her servility will likewise at the same stroke do… — Frances Power Cobbe Copy Share Image
This laudable quality is commonly known by the name of Manners and Good-breeding, and consists in a Fashionable Habit, acquir'd by Precept… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
There are many selfish people who are extremely original, then they take those pure ideas and use them to raise themselves up,… — Daniel Smith Copy Share Image
There is a need for everyone's brain to be imprinted with more self-enhancing impulses: the impulse to peace over violence, love over… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“When I feed the poor, they call me a saint, but when I ask why the poor are hungry, they call me… — Dom Helder Camara Archbishop of Recife in Brazil Copy Share Image
“If we are so contemptibly selfish that we can’t radiate a little happiness and pass on a bit of honest appreciation without… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
Inflammatory passion and selfish interest characterizes most men, whereas ambition characterizes men who pursue and hold national office. Such men rise from… — Tom Cotton Copy Share Image
Even through you and I are in different boats, you in your boat and we our canoe, we share the same river… — Oren Lyons Copy Share Image
He said that man’s heart was the only bad heart in the animal kingdom; that man was the only animal capable of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“And it is then, when The Cause, with its greedy mouth, tries to take more from you, tries to take that part… — D.J. Molles Copy Share Image
The Resurrection was the greatest ‘eucatastrophe’ possible in the greatest Fairy Story — and produces that essential emotion: Christian joy which produces… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When Buda mentioned that everything is an illusion, he was not being metaphysical but truly practical. When you thin you are more… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from… — Alexander Fraser Tytler Copy Share Image
“We are not only contingent beings, dependent on the love and will of a Creator whom we cannot know experientially except in… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Am I the only one who is tired of people complaining about their love lives, friends, or just their lives over facebook… — Nastiya Copy Share Image
Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Very few people choose war. They choose selfishness and the result was war. — David Dellinger Copy Share Image
