“Where an attitude of thankfulness is not, greed takes root. And that root will only fall to the axe of thankfulness. Therefore,… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
So long as selfishness makes government needful at all, it must make every government corrupt, save one in which all men are… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Selfishness is a disgusting trait...you will either pass people on the way up, or pass them on the way down...choose carefully or… — Sarah Moores Copy Share Image
“A greedy person has two gurus: one is a fraudster and the other is a loss. When a person incurs a loss,… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The only care That I shall share Shall be the care of others, And on the road I'll halve the load Of… — John Kendrick Bangs Copy Share Image
“But selfish isn't necessarily a bad thing. It only means you take care of yourself and you have to do that to… — Tera Lynn Childs Copy Share Image
O Lord, self-renunciation is not the work of one day, nor children's sport; yea, rather in this word is included all perfection. — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Very unfairly, there's a negative image of the kid, which really stems from the greed and selfishness of the NBA and NCAA.… — Sonny Vaccaro Copy Share Image
“She also keeps talking about the Billie Holiday record she bought for me. And she says she wants to expose me to… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
“[A] society that insists on stressing self-expression over self-control generally gets exactly what it deserves. The sulking teenager who insists, "It's not… — Charles J. Sykes Copy Share Image
“How much larger your life would be if your self could become smaller in it; if you could really look at other… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Throughout the 1980's, we did hear too much about individual gain and the ethos of selfishness and greed. We did not hear… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Comrades!' he cried. 'You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege?… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Recently, I found out things about my friends which threw my life off balance. Though a self-proclaimed cynic, there are still some… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect on me is to live on the doorstep… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“There are some upon this earth of yours who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“He did not smile. 'We are the keepers of the world's greatest treasures. Does that mean nothing to you?' "My children are… — Karen Essex Copy Share Image
The sin which is indulged to the greatest extent, which separates us from God and produces so many spiritual disorders, and which… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
“The selfish part of me, however, couldn't fathom not falling asleep in his arms or being with him every day. I needed… — Tracey Garvis-Graves Copy Share Image
Altruism is written in everlasting and resplendent character on the Cross of Christ, and it was at Calvary that the centre of… — Jon Weber Copy Share Image
“If you find that you are selfish, give something away. Determine to overcome that spirit of selfishness and to keep your body… — D.L. Moody Copy Share Image
Bitches be like help me with my problem and say ohhh shes soo selfish she lied blah blah blah get the hell… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
By obliging men to turn their attention to other affairs than their own, it rubs off that private selfishness which is the… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“Nothing, absolutely nothing, happens 'till parents stop clenching their fists around precious things and people, let go, & trust God!” — Gary F. Patton Copy Share Image
People's lives are filled with vice and the trappings of it. Ambition, greed and selfishness all have to do with vice. Sooner… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
It is to the credit of human nature that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“It all depends on what people you're talking about helping. That's the wonderful think about just about every religion on the planet… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
It is the ignorant person who seeks his or her own ends at the expense of the greater whole. It is the… — Ralph Waldo Trine Copy Share Image
I may be a bit selfish, I may also be a little jealous, but that's because I found something so precious and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
BEWARE: When your friends or family members tell you to 'put yourself first,' they are only setting you up to call you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This worldly life is truly selfish. Where there is no selfishness, there Parmatma (the Lord) is to be found without fail. God… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“If I have attached anything to sacrifice other than loss, I have at some level assumed a pay-off. And if I’ve assumed… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Even cynical, selfish people will realize, one way or the other, that it's not in their self-interest to act in self-destructive ways. — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
Through the higher love the whole life of man is to be elevated from temporal selfishness to the spring of all love,… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
“It's not my job to make you happy. It's your job to learn that only those who quit selfishly seeking their own… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
There are probably only a certain number of people who can understand or tolerate how long a job will take and what… — Dominic Cooper Copy Share Image
Selfishness at the core is to think you have a special problem- a problem that God cannot deal with, that God didn’t… — Eric Ludy Copy Share Image
“Waking up is not a selfish pursuit of happiness, it is a revolutionary stance, from the inside out, for the benefit of… — noah levine Copy Share Image
“I am selfish — you have already said so— and as a selfish man I think not of what others would do… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
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