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Selfishness Quotes by Dalai Lama
- Certain beliefs must accompany every action: One should act without selfishness, cultivate compassion for all living things, and develop respect for others.
- Along with selfishness, anger is one of the most serious problems facing the world today
- True happiness comes from having a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved by cultivating altruism, love and compassion, and…
- The simple recognition that everyone else wants to be happy and not to suffer, just as I do, serves as a constant reminder against selfishness…
- I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction. Yet true happiness…
- I myself feel, and also tell other Buddhists that the question of Nirvana will come later. There is not much hurry. If in day to…
More Selfishness Quotes
- 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… — 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.… — 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… — Barbara Cartland
- I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness. — Gary Chapman