Selfishness Quotes · Page 37

Love for the beauty of simply giving your all and getting someone's all in return. You all are too selfish.

— Anonymous

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“The best weapon for selfishness is selfishness for the cause of others.”

— Enock Maregesi

“Selfishness leads to nothingness. Generosity and benevolence leads to great reward,” he explained.”

— J. W. Lord

If you're helping someone and expecting something in return, you're doing business not kindness.

— Anonymous

Selfishness in art, as in other things, is sensibility kept at home.

— Washington Allston

“that I don’t have what it takes to be one without Your help. Take my selfishness,”

— Stormie Omartian

Accept or change; bitter or better, love or selfishness. These are the options in life that will define our character.

— Geraldine Vermaak

“Who was it said that following your heart is a good thing? It is pure egotism, a selfishness to conquer all. Hatred…

— Paula Hawkins

Everything you love will be swallowed by insecurity or selfishness. Your loneliness is consuming you. It hurts less than being left behind.

— Anonymous

Actors - we're selfish, but we can't think about the work in that kind of selfish manner. I think that you have…

— Charlize Theron

I'm not a greedy man; there really is nothing I couldn't live without. But if there was a fire, and I saved…

— Kid Rock

It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a 'higher standard of living than any have ever…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

“Setting boundaries is a way of caring for myself. It doesn't make me mean, selfish, or uncaring because I don't do things…

— Christine Morgan

“We have listened to the voices of hate, the voices of selfish unreason for far too long. Only the voices of peace…

— Laurence Overmire

The heart of our problem is the selfishness in our heart. The human spirit soars with hope when lifted by an encouraging…

— Pierre de Coubertin

“Neither the great political and financial power structures of the world, nor the specialization-blinded professionals, nor the population in general realize that...it…

— Tzm Team

For what will it profit men that a more prudent distribution and use of riches make it possible for them to gain…

— Pope Pius XI

This state of mind, which subordinates the interests of the ego to the conservation of the community, is really the first premise…

— Adolf Hitler

I heard of somebody once who said he was interested in doing the greatest amount of good for the greatest number, and…

— Sterling W Sill

The selfish and usually pointless approach is to try to get both done simultaneously - accomplish your work at hand while begging…

— Bob Saget

“When the Right proclaims that socialism has failed, and that capitalism is the only alternative, the cultural Left has little to say…

— Richard M. Rorty

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

Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.

— Lawana Blackwell

“In selfish men caution is as secure an armour for their foes as for themselves.”

— Bram Stoker

The selfish spirit of commerce knows no country, and feels no passion of principle but that of gain

— Thomas Jefferson

I was asked to Love. Unconditionally with a condition of not asking the same¦¦..

— Santanu Mishra

“The unkindest thing you can do to a human is to tarnish their reputation in front of others just to make yourself…

— Sijdah Hussain

I am guilty of a dreadful selfish crime. I have robbed myself of all my precious time

— Robert Earl Keen

I'm happy to be selfish now. That's the beauty of getting older.

— Kathy Burke

Every child is a greedy child, I think. I mean, it's healthy to be a greedy child.

— Michael Leunig

All the good maxims which are in the world fail when applied to one's self.

— Blaise Pascal

It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

That man who lives for self alone, Lives for the meanest mortal known.

— Joaquin Miller

Wow this y it's not good to be greedy:( poor boy this made me sad

— Any

People think if you look after yourself you're being selfish, you know.

— Gisele Bundchen

Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude itself is, in one sense, overcome.

— George Santayana

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

— Richard Dawkins

“Why do so many ...settle for so little? I don't understand why they're not greedy for what's inside them”

— Jack Gilbert