“Narcissists only play for their own business, whereas Distortionists play with other’s business only to gain personal advantage. If you are both,… — Ashish Patel 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
“As long as there is (worldly) selfish interest, there is no unity. Unity is attained with the ultimate intent of the Self… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
There are too many who reverse both the principles and the practice of the Apostles; they become all things to all men,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There are many selfish people who are extremely original, then they take those pure ideas and use them to raise themselves up,… — Daniel Smith Copy Share Image
There is a need for everyone's brain to be imprinted with more self-enhancing impulses: the impulse to peace over violence, love over… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“When I feed the poor, they call me a saint, but when I ask why the poor are hungry, they call me… — Dom Helder Camara Archbishop of Recife in Brazil Copy Share Image
“Why are...poor people more ready to share their goods than rich people? The answer is easy: The poor have little to lose;… — Piero Gheddo Copy Share Image
The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
“Obviously, the choice between human selfishness and divine Selfishness is not about leaving or not leaving a relationship. More important are the… — Joyce Vissell Copy Share Image
“He could not believe that any of them might actually hit somebody. If one did, what a nowhere way to go: killed… — James Jones 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
I will eliminate hatred, envy, jealousy, selfishness, and cynicism, by developing love for all humanity, because I know that a negative attitude… — Napoleon Hill 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
“The subsistence mentality of a person is a prison in which his personal joy is detained. If you want to live in… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you… — C S Lewis Copy Share Image
Selfishness is never so exquisitely selfish as when it is on its knees. ... Self turns what would otherwise be a pure… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
“My problem was not only drinking; it was selfishness. The booze was leading me to put myself ahead of others, especially my… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever equalled the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“We are raised from when we are little to be generous and helpful, but the interception of greed in a select few… — Anthony Karakai 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
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
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
“There is so much obligatory generosity to being a good mother, a good wife, a good friend. Solitude is an acceptable form… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Very few people chose war. They chose selfishness and the result was war. Each of us, individually and nationally, must choose: total… — David Dellinger Copy Share Image
“Laura felt we needed to redefine what it means to be selfish, and quoted Oscar Wilde: 'Selfishness is not living as one… — Laura S. Scott Copy Share Image
Money only appeals to selfishness and always tempts its owners irresistibly to abuse it. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus, or Gandhi armed… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
When leisure is a selfish luxury, its very activity, when it stirs, is apt to be only a kind of indolence taking… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I feel now, that Arabia could easily be evangelized within the next thirty years if it were not for the wicked selfishness… — Samuel Marinus Zwemer Copy Share Image
“I’m a selfish prick, and I want to be the greatest fuck of your life and ruin you for every man who… — Cara McKenna Copy Share Image
How often, in this cold and bitter world, is the warm heart thrown back upon itself! Cold, careless, are we of another's… — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
If your prayer is selfish, the answer will be something that will rebuke your selfishness. You may not recognize it as having… — William Temple Copy Share Image
“Self-reliance developed fully crowds out God. A godless society fosters selfishness and creates a loveless world. And without love the world is… — Mark Romang Copy Share Image
“They, the selfish ones, are like spiritual lame people who use other beings as crutches to walk on the path of life.… — Ivan Figueroa-Otero Copy Share Image
National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
To practice Zen Buddhism is to train oneself to eliminate hatred, anger and selfishness and to develop loving-kindness towards all. — Thich Thien-An Copy Share Image
Everything - our houses, our clothes, our hairstyles - is meant to help us forget ourselves and to protect us from vanity,… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“The despairing are always being urged to abstain from selfishness, to think of others first. This seems unfair. Why load them with… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image