“Selfishness leads to nothingness. Generosity and benevolence leads to great reward,” he explained.” — J. W. Lord Copy Share Image
Selfishness in art, as in other things, is sensibility kept at home. — Washington Allston Copy Share Image
“Children of the new morning, criminal minds. Selfish and greedy and loveless and blind.” — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
There is only one person in this everchanging and selfish world who will never let you down. ' Yourself' — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
“The successful are those who can be saved from their own selfishness.” — Fazlur Rahman Copy Share Image
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“...only in relatively recent times have people decided that "because I want to" is sufficient reason for annoying others.” — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Thus suicidal selfishness, that blights The fairest feelings of the opening heart, Is destined to decay, whilst from the soil Shall spring… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Surrounded as we are by the wants and woes of our fellow-men, and yet given to follow our own pleasures, regardless of… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Loving a person is not being selfish, but leashing that person is; If that person does not love you, set them free;… — JZ Copy Share Image
We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that… — Andrew Coyle Bradley Copy Share Image
“All the happiness and virtue in this world come from selflessness and generosity, all the sorrow from egotism, selfishness, and greed.” — Lama Surya Das Copy Share Image
We have to put an end to the culture of selfishness and corruption that allows greedy Wall Street banks and executives to… — Tulsi Gabbard Copy Share Image
Did the mass of men know the actual selfishness and injustice of their rulers, not a government would stand a year. -… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
What the writers do, and we hopefully can bring to life, is that they present characters who, on the surface, aren't always… — Charlie Cox 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
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
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
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
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
Individualism has come in for an enormous amount of criticism over the years. It still does. It is widely assumed to be… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural. — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
The better I am, the better the team is, so you should want me to be selfish about how good I am. — Trevor Bauer Copy Share Image
“Take taking from those that give & nobody anywhere will need any more such gifts.” — Kenneth Patchen Copy Share Image
If your actions are motivated by selfish interests rather than God, you are mortgaging tomorrow's joy. — T. B. Joshua Copy Share Image
The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“There's no room for selfishness when you have a defenseless human being depending on you.” — Mia Asher Copy Share Image
Yes I'm selfish and care about myself,that's only because I've cared to much about others who never cared about me. — Selena Moreno Copy Share Image
There is a prodigious selfishness in dreams: they live perfectly deaf and invulnerable amid the cries of the real world. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“...perhaps great sins start as simple weakness, and the consistent placing of self before others.” — Anne Perry Copy Share Image
“The spirit will unfold itself in true perfection and splendor, when your heart has banished your selfishness.” — sir kristian goldmund aumann Copy Share Image
Camera but no selfies, which represent selfishness and egotism. Social media? Again: not really me. — Maurice Levy Copy Share Image
If a person is being selfish, let them be because all their life they must've always been selfless! — Habeebah(Kanoorbee Copy Share Image
“Survival is a passive way of saying “my needs are greater than yours.” — Caroline George Copy Share Image
“Do all you can to defeat selfish shepherding in your own heart. We” — James MacDonald Copy Share Image
Nothing is more condemnable than selfishness. A man who thinks of himself alone is the most unlucky person of all. — Anand Neelakantan Copy Share Image
I was a greedy, ravenous individual, determined to rise from the bottom to the top . . . It wasn't me! — Jack Unterweger Copy Share Image
