Silence...leads us to make a gift of self rather than a selfishness that has been gift-wrapped ...Silence does not mean running away… — Madeleine Delbrel Copy Share Image
“The relatives of a great man often fail to see his achievements as clearly as they see his everyday failures, flaws, hypocrisy,… — Willard Sterne Randall Copy Share Image
The most materialistic, capitalistic and selfish organizations on earth, are ironically and hypocritically those that preach greed is immoral. RELIGIONS! — Steve Fowler Copy Share Image
“While many might disagree with me, I do not believe that it’s a small step from independence to entitlement and then anarchy.… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Self-care is never a selfish act - it is only good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
“There is something inside me, some selfish beast of a subtle thing that doesn't like truth at all because it carries responsibility.” — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I made you cool, You wasnt that dude, Until I started fuckin with you, Gave you swagg and a duffle bag, You… — Letoya Luckett Copy Share Image
“Now you see, Tom," said Mr. Harthouse (...); "every man is selfish in everything he does, and I am exactly like the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Your life is going to be a gradual process of becoming kinder and more loving: Hurry up. Speed it along. Start right… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Not forgiving prolongs hurt and anger and leads to smoldering resentment, which will make us miserable until it kills us. Resentment destroys… — Richard Walters Copy Share Image
In the final analysis our greatest problem with holiness is not that our concepts of holiness are feeble, but that our hearts… — Floyd McClung Copy Share Image
“Their arrogance protected them against any liking for their fellow-man, against the slightest interest in the strangers sitting all about them, amidst… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“If Lee had an example of perfect leadership, it was in the man that he most wanted to follow himself, the God-Man… — H.W. Crocker III Copy Share Image
One of the fundamental demonstrations of our natural instinct to Bond with each other is a will to give. Rather than domination,… — Lynne McTaggart Copy Share Image
“The poor man retains the prejudices of his forefathers without their faith, and their ignorance without their virtues; he has adopted the… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
There are always going to be people in life that will lead you to the darkness if you let them, so keep… — JSV Copy Share Image
“The best I can do is to ‘pretend’ that I’m my own god. But in the pretending I have to pretend that… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And… — Anita Brookner Copy Share Image
No matter how well you treat someone and bend over backwards to help, when it comes to selfishness they will screw you… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
“For the case that one thinks he has plateaued in life, God has already set yet another peak for him to reach:… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
As a father now, I wouldn't do what my dad did, because it left me feeling emotionally unstable as a kid. But… — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
The gospel of licentiousness, of selfishness, of blaming all the difficulties of life on external factors - these are the things that… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
“It is an infirmity of our nature to mingle our interests and prejudices with the operation of our reasoning powers, and attribute… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
My personal philosophy is that people should be extremely selfish for the first half of their life and extremely unselfish for the… — Walter O'Brien Copy Share Image
The first thing any coaching staff must do is weed out selfishness. No program can be successful with players who put themselves… — Johnny Majors Copy Share Image
Selfishness makes Christmas a burden; Love makes it a delight. The joy of brightening a child's heart creates the magic of Christmas. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A greedy insistence that the whole of nature and life must present itself to our voracious demand for instantaneous intelligibility is a… — John F. Haught Copy Share Image
Before my accident I was a little too... selfish and self-absorbed and for me, to now be at the place where I… — Rick Allen Copy Share Image
Pulling weeds and planting seeds. That's the story of life. We are individual lots on which either weeds of selfishness or fruit… — Dennis Rainey Copy Share Image
Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others. — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
Oh, I think I've been entirely selfish with my career. I've done what I wanted to do, and not put myself out… — Jim Broadbent Copy Share Image
Even the most disinterested love is, after all, but a kind of bargain, in which self-love always proposes to be the gainer… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Maybe you receive pain selfishly — thinking only of yourself. The cycle of pain wounds every participant; both victim and aggressor.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“We had not written or phoned or called or even sent a lousy card. We were young: we had our troubles. If… — Brian Moore Copy Share Image
The men who made the Industrial Revolution are usually pictured as hardfaced businessmen with no other motive than self-interest. That is certainly… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
You are chosen to be faithful women of God in our day, to stand above pettiness, gossip, selfishness, lewdness, and all other… — Howard W. Hunter Copy Share Image
“I now know that deep within the human concept is something dark, selfish, and completely willing to do whatever is necessary to… — Melissa West Copy Share Image
Children, they're the same everywhere. Greedy little creatures but the best listeners in the world - any world. The very best of… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
“Selfishness is uncomfortable even for the selfish. Hence the rise of gated communities: the privileged don't like to be reminded of their… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
I'm trying to teach people not to be selfish. That's the thing. If you have a good thing share it. Of course… — Jhene Aiko Copy Share Image
