Selfishness Quotes

693 Selfishness quotes by 476 unique authors

It's a mistake to expect benefits from any pose. Expectations make you restless because if you fail to get what you expect, you feel miserable.… — Dharma Mittra
That man who lives for self alone, Lives for the meanest mortal known. — Joaquin Miller
What's the matter with the world? Why, there ain't nothing but one word wrong with everyone of us, and that's selfishness. — Will Rogers
...short-sighted men who in their greed and selfishness will, if permitted, rob our country of half its charm by their reckless extermination of all useful… — Theodore Roosevelt
One of the fundamental demonstrations of our natural instinct to Bond with each other is a will to give. Rather than domination, our most basic… — Lynne McTaggart
Let this be thy whole endeavor, this thy prayer, this thy desire,-that thou mayest be stripped of all selfishness, and with entire simplicity follow Jesus… — Thomas a Kempis
He who does most to cure woman of her weakness, her frivolity, and her servility will likewise at the same stroke do most to cure… — Frances Power Cobbe
I firmly believe that the moment our hearts are emptied of pride and selfishness and ambition and self-seeking and every thing that is contrary to… — Dwight L. Moody
Adultery is a meanness and a stealing, a taking away from someone what should be theirs, a great selfishness, and surrounded and guarded by lies… — Rose Macaulay
Atheism exists only in coldness, selfishness, and baseness. — Madame de Stael
Where all are selfish, the sage is no better than the fool, and only rather more dangerous. — James Anthony Froude
If we desire to do what will please God, and what will help men, we presently find ourselves taken out of our narrow habits of… — James Freeman Clarke
Thus suicidal selfishness, that blights The fairest feelings of the opening heart, Is destined to decay, whilst from the soil Shall spring all virtue, all… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of… — Pope Francis
Time is money. — Benjamin Franklin
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself. — Khalil Gibran
Childlessness doesn't make people selfish; selfishness makes people selfish. — Elizabeth Gilbert
Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race. — William E. Gladstone
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance. — Graham Greene
All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing. — Charles Caleb Colton
Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt. — William Cowper
As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed and selfishness prevent… — Rick Danko
Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to balance it against the altruism to which we should… — Alan Dershowitz

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