Selfishness Quotes

693 quotes by 505 authors

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure. — Jane Austen
I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. — Jane Austen
Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully. — Richard Bach
Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness. — Honore de Balzac
People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself. — Henry Ward Beecher
Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty. — Henry Ward Beecher
The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had… — Cyrano de Bergerac
It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That's why we're… — Carol Burnett
To be happy we must not be too concerned with others. — Albert Camus
A woman asking 'Am I good? Am I satisfied?' is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women,… — Barbara Cartland
I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness. — Gary Chapman
Before my accident I was a little too... selfish and self-absorbed and for me, to now be at the place where I can kinda give… — Rick Allen
Selfishness is never so exquisitely selfish as when it is on its knees. ... Self turns what would otherwise be a pure and powerful prayer… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself. — Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and… — Abraham Lincoln
All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. — B. C. Forbes
Love is the most ethically consistent experience, because selfishness and altruism no longer seem opposed or in conflict. — Peter Breggin
It is to the credit of human nature that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

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