Selfishness Quotes · Page 25

A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life.

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

People of delicate health, selfish dispositions, and coarse minds, can always bear the sufferings of others placidly.

— Isabel Burton

“...and as a result yet today we are unable to distinguish between sympathy and selfishness.”

— M.H. Rakib

Selfishness is better than selflessness. It's like being happy without giving a DAMN

— Sherlie May Revillosa

Liars; those people who hide behind the truth for no real reason but for their own selfish gain.

— Tai Nicole

You can't be 100 percent selfish when you're working with somebody else.

— St. Lucia

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

— Jack Gilbert

“The mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering.”

— Emily Brontë

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

Don't we forgive everything of a lover? We forgive selfishness, desire, guile. As long as we are the motive for it...There are…

— Michael Ondaatje

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

“Phir laa jawab kargayi mujhe teri khudgarz fitrat, Har taa'luk mita diya meine jab, Toh in khwaabon ke zariye raabta dhoond liya…

— Henna Sohail

Any opposition not based on rationalism or science or experience will one day or other, reveal the fraud, selfishness, lies and conspiracies.

— Periyar E. V. Ramasamy

The State must act as the guardian of a millennial future in the face of which the wishes and the selfishness of…

— Adolf Hitler

You can't build marriage on a foundation of selfish hedonism, because that would be to promise people only roses, and marriage is…

— Alan Keyes

Humans are selfish, and because of our innate selfishness, I'm very confident that we can overcome any amount of environmental destruction.

— Liu Cixin

“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The Reagan-Bush years have exalted private gain over public obligation, special interests over the common good, wealth and fame over work and…

— William J. Clinton

“Every new encounter provides a new mirror for me to view my own experiences through, and there is a level of selfishness…

— Rachel Lloyd

Next to the ministry I know of no more noble profession than the law. The object aimed at is justice, equal and…

— William Jennings Bryan

The Civilized… murder their children by producing too many of them without being able to provide for their well-being. Morality or theories…

— Charles Fourier

There is the expression of selfishness and there is the expression of selflessness - but economists or theoreticians never touched that part.…

— Muhammad Yunus

He said that man’s heart was the only bad heart in the animal kingdom; that man was the only animal capable of…

— Mark Twain

“Because of anger-pride-deceit-greed, selfishness [self-interest] remains and consequently one has no awareness of who dies or who takes birth. It is simply…

— Dada Bhagwan

I hate when people act a different way when they get around certain people.

— Santanu Mishra

He's no hero, he's a self-centered lout, who puts his own ego ahead of those that depend on him.

— Shifu

Greed and selfishness do seem to be central motivators of mankind.

— Raymond Khoury

Some people dont know the difference between thinking for yourself and thinking of yourself.

— Vikrant Parsai

“Some of us -" She paused as she sought the words. " - don't die unless we want to. The selfish ones…

— Alex Bledsoe

“Forgiving someone who has wronged you is actually a selfish act rather than a selfless one.”

— Robin S. Sharma

Selfish prudence is too often allowed to come between duty and human life.

— Rebecca Lee Crumpler

Gratitude free of compassion is selfishness. It is nothing more than being happy for what has been done to benefit you.

— Derek R. Audette

Getting enough of what you want without depriving anyone else is the ultimate act of selfishness and sanity.

— Joy Browne

“Be fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful.” This was the time to be greedy.33”

— Alice Schroeder

It can be seen as being quite selfish, but I'm very happy to be selfish.

— Kathy Burke

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.

— Richard Whately

“We must eliminate the individual tendency to selfishness that snares the soul, shrinks the heart, and darkens the mind.”

— Spencer W. Kimball

The act of love . . . is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself.

— Albert Camus

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

A selfish basis would not serve the purpose of taking a man higher and higher along the paths of evolution.

— Mahatma Gandhi