What's the matter with the world? Why, there ain't nothing but one word wrong with everyone of us, and that's selfishness. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
The age of selfishness and greed is over. The age of kindness and generosity is underway. — Laurence Overmire Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have to be selfish to get what you want and move forward in life. — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
As an athlete you're taught to be selfish. When I'm training, it's usually all about me. — Ronda Rousey Copy Share Image
“Love wasn’t a selfish thing. It was the kindest, most generous impulse a man could have.” — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
Sometimes we think so much about what we want, and we forget to appreciate what we have. — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
“There's always a little decency in the worst places… and always little secret selfishness in the best.” — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
The human species is its own enemy. We're our own demise. Greed and self interest is our bondage. — Jeremy Limn 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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
Advertising is the place where the selfish interests of the manufacturer coincide with the interests of society. — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
“Two kinds of greedy people never get satisfied; the seeker of knowledge and the seeker of this world” — Imam Ali ibn Abu Talib Copy Share Image
“Some selfish people rise because some kind people haven't learned the art of saying no to them.” — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
“She couldn’t be greedy. But she’d sure give it her best when the time came.” — Emily Jane Trent Copy Share Image
“Our roads are most often a tawdry detour we have chosen because the press of pain or the push of greed drove… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Our selfishness will condemn us to the worst suffering that we ourselves have invented - loneliness. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“It was a kindness that was hard to understand... and the most selfishness she's ever shown.” — Bisco Hatori Copy Share Image
“Mankind, in all his lusts, punishes himself. The gods have to do very little.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Less the number of selfish wishes, more the mental strength he gains to work with. — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
It fills me with sorrow to see what the selfishness of one person can do... — Sarah Moores Copy Share Image
The greatest surprise of human evolution may be that the highest form of selfishness is selflessness. — Robert E. Ornstein Copy Share Image
We spend our whole lives searching for all the things we think we want never really knowing what we have. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
“To esteem what makes you holy over what makes you happy - that is the greatest dare.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
