Selfishness Quotes · Page 28

“Being a 'good' parent is more about the parent, and, less about the 'supposedly-could-have-been-bad' child.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Sometimes becomes necessary to be selfish for your love if you do not have heart goes crazy

— Mak_786

Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness.

— Nicolas Chamfort

“A man is nothing more than the things he does to get what he wants.”

— Hal Ackerman

We can neither change nor overpower God's eternal suffrage against selfishness and meanness.

— James Martineau

I think marriage becomes a great mirror. My selfishness comes out in my marriage all the time.

— Mike Fisher

I'm not a selfish player - never been a selfish player in my life. Always been about the team.

— Julius Randle

“Those who make hostility a daily manner are often left in the lurch at difficult times.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“Loneliness had made the Queen bitter, bitterness had made her selfish, and selfishness had made her suspicious. --The Changeling”

— Kate Morton

The rights of the people to the exercise and fruits of their own industry can never be protected against the selfishness of…

— Thomas Jefferson

The meaning ascribed in popular usage to the word 'selfishness' is not merely wrong: it represents a devastating intellectual 'package-deal,' which is…

— Ayn Rand

I hate people who would break someone's heart, thinking of no one but themselves. Selfish people don't deserve to be treated fairly.

— Anonymous

Take care of those who take care of you. Be loyal to those that are loyal to you. Selfish people end up…

— Anonymous

As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed…

— Rick Danko

I have learned, by some experience, that virtue and patriotism, vice and selfishness, are found in all parties, and that they differ…

— William H. Seward

“The world has always been a selfish place where love is fleeting and people are fickle. Once upon a time, true love…

— Tara Brown

Selfishness is the most constant of human motives. Patriotism, humanity, or the love of God may lead to sporadic outbursts sweep away…

— Charles W. Chesnutt

There questions of wanting to be an artist, and what does that mean, what makes you an artist? Are you an artist…

— Claire Messud

I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction.…

— Anonymous

If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts…

— Sachin Tendulkar

Selfishness is when we pursue gain at the expense of others. But God doesn’t have a limited number of treasures to distribute.…

— Randy Alcorn

Sometimes, break ups and divorce is the best gift you can have in life. In the beginning it may seem like the…

— Merle Rutledge Jr

“Set your heart on doing good. Do it over and over again and you will be filled with joy. – Buddha A…

— Benjamin Todd

Here I am going to say something which may come as a bit of a shock. God doesn't necessarily want us to…

— William Nicholson

Like nature itself, modern economic life is driven by relentless competition and unbridled selfishness. Or is it?

— Paul J. Zak

“Emotion it self is blindfold. So one second of your life control by emotion it's the definition of selfishness.”

— Abraham Ruiz

Childlessness doesn't make people selfish; selfishness makes people selfish.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

We are not slow at discovering the selfishness of others; for this plain reason--because it clashes with our own.

— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

It is very natural for a young friend and a young lover to think the persons they love have nothing to do…

— Alexander Pope

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

— Richard Bach

In contrast to the path of selfishness, there is no room for road rage on the straight and narrow way.

— Neal A. Maxwell

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway.

— Anonymous

Selfishness and separatation have led me to believe that the world is not my problem. I am the world.

— Edward Kowalczyk

The real thing about this world is everyone is selfish, the difference is who is less

— Sushan

There is always enough for the needy, there is never enough for the greedy.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Selfishness comes from poverty in the heart, from the belief that love is not abundant.

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

I learned that no man in God's wide earth is either willing or able to help any other man.

— Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

Sometimes we do not value our belongings. Unless they stop belonging to us.

— Anonymous

Lust is raw selfishness. It's all about my wants, my needs, my pleasure. Most love songs are actually lust songs.

— Rick Warren

For Silicon Valley and its idols, innovation is the new selfishness.

— Evgeny Morozov