Selfishness Quotes
693 Selfishness quotes by 476 unique authors
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No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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I've learned that the universe doesn't care what our motives are, only our actions. So we should do things that will bring about good, even…
— Wendy Mass
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Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.
— Harry S. Truman
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I knew by the way he looked at her that he held her in a higher regard than he held even himself. No selfishness or…
— Veronica Roth
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Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you.
— Dejan Stojanovic
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Deeds that seemed unimportant at the time would prove to have been momentous; a tiny act of selfishness and unkindness or, conversely, an unconsidered act…
— Karen Armstrong
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No selfishness or insecurity kept him from seeing the full extent of her goodness, as it so often does with the rest of us. That…
— Veronica Roth
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Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our good…
— William Wilberforce
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And because of our selfishness, we will be condemned to the worst torture humankind ever invented for itself: loneliness.
— Paulo Coelho
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In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.
— David Mitchell
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Tessa was convinced that it was a lie, and also that everything she had done in her life, telling herself that it was for the…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Those who blamed aggression formed Amity.’… ‘Those who blamed ignorance became the Erudite.’… ‘Those who blamed duplicity created Candor.’… ‘Those who blamed selfishness made Abnegation.’……
— Veronica Roth
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Is it possible really to love other people? If I’m lonely and in pain, everyone outside me is potential relief—I need them. But can you…
— David Foster Wallace
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Today, the sun is everywhere, and everything solid is nothing but its own shadow, I know that the real things in life, the things I…
— Jeanette Winterson
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Mr Thornton would rather have heard that she was suffering the natural sorrow. In the first place, there was selfishness enough in him to have…
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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It is difficult to feel sympathy for these people. It is difficult to regard some bawdy drunk and see them as sick and powerless. It…
— Russell Brand
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Only God can give us a selfless love for others, as the Holy Spirit changes us from within. This is one reason we must receive…
— Billy Graham
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Amor deliria nervosa isn't a disease of love. It's a disease of selfishness.
— Lauren Oliver
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Come back to me, Tessa. Henry said that perhaps, since you had touched the soul of an angel, that you dream of Heaven now, of…
— Cassandra Clare
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Mundus vult decipi'—the world wants to be deceived. To live without deception presupposes standards beyond the reach of most people whose existence is largely shaped…
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
Who Wrote These Selfishness Quotes
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