Selfishness is the root and source of all natural and moral evils. — Nathanael Emmons Copy Share Image
“If it has anything to do with me, it has nothing to do with sacrifice.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness behind. — John H. Groberg Copy Share Image
Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it. — Douglas Horton Copy Share Image
If we do not cling to riches, selfishness or greed-then I believe we are getting closer to God. — Daniel Ortega Copy Share Image
Legal plunder has two roots: One, as we have just seen, is in human selfishness; the other is in false philanthropy. — Frederic Bastiat Copy Share Image
The man who lives by himself and for himself is likely to be corrupted by the company he keeps. — Charles Henry Parkhurst Copy Share Image
To be selfish is to sacrifice the nobler for the meaner ends, and to be sordidly content. — Hugh Reginald Haweis Copy Share Image
The endeavor to change universal power by selfish supplication I do not believe in. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
there were people who occupied telephone booths as though they had rented them for the day. — Ursula Curtiss Copy Share Image
It's something about the inevitability. How nothing can keep them apart--not her selfishness, or his evil, or even death, in the end...their… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
A true leader knows how to leads his people, knows their needs, wants, the one who humbles himself and the one who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Selfishness is one of the more common faces of pride. 'How everything affects me' is the center of all that matters-self-conceit, self-pity,… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Without the protection of surliness and levity, all children would be crushed by the past—the past of others, loaded onto their shoulders.… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
No universal selfishness can bring social good to all. Communism - the effort to give all men what they need and to… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
All disguised, In different shape and size. None want to realise, What is the real need of life. Darkness prevails in sunlight,… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
I think schools, as they are now regulated, the hot-beds of vice and folly, and the knowledge of human nature supposedly attained… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Let this be thy whole endeavor, this thy prayer, this thy desire,-that thou mayest be stripped of all selfishness, and with entire… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
There are some upon this earth of yours,' returned the Spirit, 'who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“People, in all sorts and kinds.. They always want something from you. Whether it's lust, money, love or even friendship. Whether they… — Nesh Copy Share Image
“It’s been said that love is all there is; that a lack of love causes people to do evil things. I can… — novelist J. Conrad Guest Copy Share Image
The hope for the twentieth century rests on recognition that war and depression are man-made, and needless. They can be avoided in… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
“In the end, even the “yes” to love is a source of suffering, because love always requires expropriations of my “I”, in… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“For when is the child the ideal child in our eyes and to our hearts? Is it not when with gentle hand… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
What you learn about yourself is that you continue to see that you're selfish. It's so easy, in our Laodicean culture with… — Aaron Kampman Copy Share Image
“Unlike the rest of you, I cheerfully admit to my own utter selfishness. I am self-made, self-absorbed, self-serving, self-referential, even self-deprecating, in… — William Lashner Copy Share Image
