Be careful of selfish motives. You can mistake them for principles and end up dying for them. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
“It's a horrible thing to try and understand how someone can kill and take things just because they want to.” — Kara Timmins Copy Share Image
“Selfish is when you have a gift and refuse to share it with the world.” — Danesha Little Copy Share Image
“We are good to others only because we think that that is, or will be, good for us.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. (to Horatio Gates, 1798)” — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Who was it who said that following your heart is a good thing? It is pure egotism, a selfishness to conquer all.” — Paula Hawkins Copy Share Image
Maybe coming clean is the ultimate selfish act. A way to absolve yourself by hurting someone who doesn't deserve to be hurt. — Cindy Chupack Copy Share Image
In order to swim one takes off all one's clothes--in order to aspire to the truth one must undress in a far… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
As we come to grips with our own selfishness and stupidity, we make friends with the impostor and accept that we are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are too many who reverse both the principles and the practice of the Apostles; they become all things to all men,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“As long as there is (worldly) selfish interest, there is no unity. Unity is attained with the ultimate intent of the Self… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
When marriage exposes a person's selfishness and sins it's doing what it is meant to do: bringing our sins and wounds to… — Christopher West Copy Share Image
Real leaders are people who “help us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and selfishness and weakness and fear and… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Government began in tyranny and force, began in the feudalism of the soldier and bigotry of the priest; and the ideas of… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Understand the suffering of worldly existence. Abandon its causes of ignorance and selfishness. Practice the path of meditation and compassion. Awaken from… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“Because of anger-pride-deceit-greed, selfishness [self-interest] remains and consequently one has no awareness of who dies or who takes birth. It is simply… — Dada Bhagwan 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
“He asked me not to kill myself - asked, not told. His wife had done that, he told me, and it was… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
There is no hell like that of a selfish heart, and there is no misfortune so great as that of not being… — Julia Ward Howe 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
“Selfishness Stops The Flow Of Blessings To You and Others” — Brenda Johnson Padgitt Copy Share Image