That man who lives for self alone, Lives for the meanest mortal known. — Joaquin Miller Copy Share Image
People think if you look after yourself you're being selfish, you know. — Gisele Bundchen 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
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
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
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
“that I don’t have what it takes to be one without Your help. Take my selfishness,” — Stormie Omartian Copy Share Image
Accept or change; bitter or better, love or selfishness. These are the options in life that will define our character. — Geraldine Vermaak 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
Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives. — Lawana Blackwell 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
We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions… — Anonymous 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
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
If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride because it shows you trust in your own power. Your self-sufficiency, your… — Mother Teresa 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
You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage.… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
For the academic the rhetorical sense of superiority through the possession of knowledge is essential for facing the daily grind, turning again… — Robin Winks Copy Share Image
I guess I've been waiting so long I'm looking for perfection. That makes it tough." "Waiting for perfect love?" "No, even I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
To one degree or another we all struggle with selfishness. Since it is so common, why worry about selfishness anyway? Because selfishness… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“I have nothing to do with others, I am only concerned with myself. I take advantage of the fact that the majority… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
We have the power to defy the selfish genes of our birth and, if necessary, the selfish memes of our indoctrination. We… — Richard Dawkins 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
The Civilized… murder their children by producing too many of them without being able to provide for their well-being. Morality or theories… — Charles Fourier Copy Share Image
There is the expression of selfishness and there is the expression of selflessness - but economists or theoreticians never touched that part.… — Muhammad Yunus Copy Share Image
