Selfish Quotes

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Selfishâ€” a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice. — George Eliot
All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is… — Swami Vivekananda
Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the 'transcendent' and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and… — Christopher Hitchens
How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation! — John Muir
Customs are generally unselfish. Habits are nearly always selfish. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred--that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and… — Harriet Beecher Stowe
Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish… — Thomas Hardy
This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication. — Logan Pearsall Smith
When faith replaces doubt, when selfless service eliminates selfish striving, the power of God brings to pass His purposes. — Thomas S. Monson
The ends you serve that are selfish will take you no further than yourself but the ends you serve that are for all, in common,… — Marcus Garvey
the scientist's religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that,… — Albert Einstein
I have little left in myself -- I must have you. The world may laugh -- may call me absurd, selfish -- but it does… — Charlotte Bronte
Among the real heroines in the world who will come into the Church are women who are more concerned with being righteous than with being… — Spencer W. Kimball
Your father always suspected that being pretty-minded is simply the natural state for most people. They want to be vapid and lazy and vainâ€”Maddy glanced… — Scott Westerfeld
I was sorry for her; I was amazed, disgusted at her heartless vanity; I wondered why so much beauty should be given to those who… — Anne Bronte
He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed.... — Jane Austen
Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect — George Sand
All suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their own happiness or satisfaction — Dalai Lama
At Christmas A man is at his finest towards the finish of the year; He is almost what he should be when the Christmas season's… — Edgar Guest
Just as blueprints don't necessarily specify blue buildings, selfish genes don't necessarily specify selfish organisms. As we shall see, sometimes the most selfish thing a… — Steven Pinker

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