Inflammatory passion and selfish interest characterizes most men, whereas ambition characterizes men who pursue and hold national office. Such men rise from… — Tom Cotton Copy Share Image
When greedy people are given gold, they are bitter that they haven't gotten jewels; when they are made barons they are resentful… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
Long Distance training can be a positive & constructive form of selfishness. After all, once you're at the starting line, you're there… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What is 'grace'? It is God's own life, shared by us. God's life is love. Deus caritas est. By grace we are… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
It's a mistake to expect benefits from any pose. Expectations make you restless because if you fail to get what you expect,… — Dharma Mittra Copy Share Image
Its sad when u see people pretending to be your friend and say thank u or hi , just to appear friendly/polite… — JSV Copy Share Image
Love has no meaning if it isn't shared. We have been created for greater things - to love and to be loved...… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Here is, in truth, the whole secret of Yoga, the science of the soul. The active turnings, the strident vibrations, of selfishness,… — Patanjali Copy Share Image
The selfishness must be discovered and understood before it can be removed. It is powerless to remove itself, neither will it pass… — James Allen Copy Share Image
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
“I do not think men are good at all. I have seen enough to know that humans are a wicked race from… — Brondt Kamffer Copy Share Image
“What we traditionally call ‘selfish tendencies’ is only a narrow interpretation of what self-serving behaviour entails, wherein human characteristics are perceived through… — Athene's Theory of Everything Copy Share Image
Dear Baby, I hope someday somebody wants to hold you for 20 minutes straight and that's all they do. They don't pull… — Keri Russell Copy Share Image
It often occurs that pride and selfishness are muddled with strength and independence. They are neither equal nor similar; in fact, they… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
We hear in these days a great deal respecting rights--the rights of private judgment, the rights of labor, the rights of property,… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
Sometimes a fog will settle over a vessel's deck and yet leave the topmast clear. Then a sailor goes up aloft and… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“I believe that we're much healthier if we think of our selfishness as sin. Which is what it is: a sin. Even… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
“Nature is infinitely rich and diverse in her ways. She can be seen to break her most unchanging laws. She has made… — Jan Potocki Copy Share Image
The message of this season that is applicable throughout the year lies not in the receiving of earthly presents and treasures but… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
“Realize this, though. Half my genes run through your body, and my selfish genome is heavily evolutionarily pre-programmed to look out for… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
Even after the age of 50 it was impossible for me to see my mother as a human being. I felt she… — David Small Copy Share Image
Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Politics is not an end, but a means. It is not a product, but a process. It is the art of government.… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Today, the sun is everywhere, and everything solid is nothing but its own shadow, I know that the real things in life,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Once you are thought selfish, not only are you forgiven a life designed mainly to suit yourself, which in anyone else would… — Carolyn Heilbrun Copy Share Image
If ever there was a cause, if ever there can be a cause, worthy to be upheld by all of toil or… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
“and there is dishonest men plenty to guide them to the devil, scoundrels that reckons to be the ‘people’s friends,’ and that… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Being selfish means taking into account yourself first, or asking others to live the way you think it's better? An interesting topic… — Nassrine Reza Copy Share Image
At the time of his death, Biko had a wife and three children for which he left a letter that stated in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Self-interest is not myopic selfishness. It is whatever it is that interests the participants, whatever they value, whatever goals they pursue. The… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“I used to send my characters into a fire that necessarily consumed them, but I have learned, a little, how to send… — Kathe Koja Copy Share Image
Not selfishness, but precisely the absence of a self. Look at them. The man who cheats and lies, but preserves a respectable… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Now this spirit is admirably mortified by the exercise of patience. It involves also a continual practice of the presence of God;… — Frederick William Faber Copy Share Image
Mundus vult decipi'—the world wants to be deceived. To live without deception presupposes standards beyond the reach of most people whose existence… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
Tessa was convinced that it was a lie, and also that everything she had done in her life, telling herself that it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When Buda mentioned that everything is an illusion, he was not being metaphysical but truly practical. When you think you are more… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
“The faculty to think objectively is reason ; the emotional attitude behind reason is that of humility . To be objective, to… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“So true it is, and so terrible too, that up to a certain point the thought or sight of misery enlists our… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“My first emotions had been those of pure melancholy and sincerest pity; but just in proportion as the forlornness of Bartleby grew… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
