“I suppose it is that sickness and weakness are selfish things and turn our inner eyes and sympathy on ourselves, whilst health… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
Bear in mind three essential qualities in all games of intellect:– Never to show selfishness or to wound the feelings of your… — W. Patterson Copy Share Image
PERSONAL IMPORTANCE or taking things personally, is an expression of SELFISHNESS because we make the assumption that everything is about ME!! NOTHING… — Miguel Copy Share Image
My best quality is that I'm a big hearted person. I'm resilient, too. My worst quality is selfishness, although everyone is guilty… — Matthew McConaughey Copy Share Image
Almost every sinful action ever committed can be traced back to a selfish motive. It is a trait we hate in other… — Stephen Kendrick Copy Share Image
Life and relationships are not a test drive…there should be trust, commitments, caring actions out of Love and understanding in love rather… — Santanu Mishra Copy Share Image
“I thought of the similarities of complaints--always selfishness, always blindness--and the old psychological truth that what we complain of in others, others… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
It's easy to be selfish and focus on what you have to do and what you need to do to accomplish your… — Jordan Burroughs Copy Share Image
That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it. Every one thinks chiefly of his own,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In a world where God does not exist, any reasonable person must see that the propensity toward selfishness should be the most… — Derek R. Audette Copy Share Image
But the conceit of one's self and the conceit of one's hobby are hardly more prolific of eccentricity than the conceit of… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
A married person does not live in isolation. He or she has made a promise, a pledge, a vow, to another person.… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
Ours has been called a culture of narcissism. The label is apt but can be misleading. It reads colloquially as selfishness and… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
The practice of that which is ethically best-what we call goodness or virtue-involves a course of conduct which, in all respects, is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We live in a world of transgressions and selfishness, and no pictures that represent us otherwise can be true; though happily for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“...alone in this city, alone on this sea. The days were strewn about him, he was a drunkard of days. He had… — James Salter Copy Share Image
“Stanbrook once told me," he said, "that suicide is the worst kind of selfishness, as it is often a plea to specific… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as a weed, that's a cruel term made up by people who label some plants as 'unwanted'… — Sarah Beth Durst Copy Share Image
Long before Einstein told us that matter is energy, Machiavelli and Hobbes and other modern political philosophers defined man as a lump… — George Will Copy Share Image
Any young guy who comes into the league and says they don't have a certain level of selfishness probably isn't playing many… — David Lee Copy Share Image
I'm really interested in the difference between selfishness and generosity. It confuses me to no end because sometimes it all just feels… — Nate Lowman Copy Share Image
“one fine day, a purely predatory world shall consume itself. Yes, the Devil shall take the hindmost until the foremost is the… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“When you don’t care, when you’re wrapped up in your own selfishness, man’s inhumanity to man becomes that much easier to ignore.” — Steve Dublanica Copy Share Image
“...I committed a sin the day I refused you - I discovered metal inside me where my heart should be - forgive… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“In my impatience I become convinced that this desire of mine should have been fulfilled yesterday, when it belongs to a tomorrow… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
The essence of true nobility is neglect of self. Let the thought of self pass in, and the beauty of a great… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
But the bottom line is that, as humans, we are by nature selfish creatures. The only way we care about anything, really,… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“If we were honest with ourselves we would know that what we fear is not to hurt others for fear of their… — Luigina Sgarro Copy Share Image
I think the greedy corporate owners have to be confronted with the fact that they are ignoring their most powerful resource -… — John Sweeney Copy Share Image
“Women who say that they have met the most amazing guy in the world are only saying that because they haven’t lived… — Heather Chapple Copy Share Image
“Giving out of your surplus does not make you generous, it makes your selfishness more tolerable! Giving while you are lacking is… — William Branks Copy Share Image
I can be selfish, you're so impatient. sometimes I feel like Marilyn Monroe. I'm insecure, yeah, I make mistakes. sometimes I feel… — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
“Confession is for the confessor. It makes you feel good; it ruins the lives of everyone else. It’s a selfish thing to… — Jake Adelstein Copy Share Image
“The best way to detect the destructive element in someone is to watch closely their behavioural pattern when given authority over poverty.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“It's way too easy to see the real face of a person. They're amiable and full of pretense when they want something… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
Following Jesus means taking up one's own cross to accompany him on his path, an uncomfortable path that is not one of… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one’s own personal, selfish… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Even with all its positive attributes, capitalism in its imperialistic form is the most treacherous system mankind ever devised. It is driven… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“Being self-sufficient is not selfish; it is a need. Harming others or yourself is not selfish because it will never benefit the… — Elizabeth Cartwright Copy Share Image
life lived only for oneself does not truly satisfy men or women. There is a hunger in Americans today for larger purposes… — Betty Friedan Copy Share Image
