To be saved is only this-salvation from our own selfishness. — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude itself is, in one sense, overcome. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Why do so many ...settle for so little? I don't understand why they're not greedy for what's inside them” — Jack Gilbert Copy Share Image
Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth. — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
Of all influences that cause men to choose wrong, selfishness is undoubtedly the strongest. Where it is, the Spirit is not. — William R. Bradford Copy Share Image
All the good maxims which are in the world fail when applied to one's self. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
That man who lives for self alone, Lives for the meanest mortal known. — Joaquin Miller 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
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
“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
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
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
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
Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that to-day is at the basis of all human labor and… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
Christianity excludes malignity, subdues selfishness, regulates the passions, subordinates the appetites, quickens the intellect, exalts the affections. It promotes industry, honesty, truth,… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
From the apparent usefulness of the social virtues, it has readily been inferred by sceptics, both ancient and modern, that all moral… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Did some things that I know that Im going to regret, Caused you pain since the day we met, Now you barely… — Letoya Luckett Copy Share Image
“You are a monster of selfishness and greed, bearing no loyalty to anyone but yourself, and you prance across the stage and… — Lynn Messina Copy Share Image
“No, even I know better than that. I’m looking for selfishness. Perfect selfishness. Like, say I tell you I want to eat… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Knowledge of my atrocious selfishness, settled on me. All those bitter home truths she had flung at me, right from the beginning…and… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
All who strive to live for something beyond mere selfish aims find their capacities for doing good veryinadequate to their aspirations. They… — Lydia M Child Copy Share Image
“I hope that someday, somebody wants to hold you for twenty minutes straight, and that’s all they do. They don’t pull away.… — Adrienne Shelly Copy Share Image
