Selfishness Quotes

693 Selfishness quotes by 476 unique authors

Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome. — George Santayana
To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature. — Adam Smith
Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us… — George A. Smith
It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man. — Herbert Spencer
Men's moral principles are weak enough without their being made subordinate to selfishness; and their selfishness is quite active enough, without any such effort as… — Lysander Spooner
In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being. — Robert Louis Stevenson
Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and… — William Howard Taft
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody. — Mother Teresa
He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies. — Tertullian
Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish. — William Makepeace Thackeray
A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's. — Richard Whately
The sin which is indulged to the greatest extent, which separates us from God and produces so many spiritual disorders, and which are contagious, is… — Ellen G. White
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. — Oscar Wilde
There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up. — Oscar Wilde
Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society. — E. O. Wilson
Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness. — Woodrow Wilson
There is the expression of selfishness and there is the expression of selflessness - but economists or theoreticians never touched that part. They said: 'Go… — Muhammad Yunus
Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion. — Israel Zangwill
I write about the power of trying, because I want to be okay with failing. I write about generosity because I battle selfishness. I write… — Kristin Armstrong
It is by loving, and not by being loved, that one can come nearest the soul of another; yea, that, where two love, it is… — George MacDonald
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure… — C.S. Lewis
It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Hatred,… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
He said that man’s heart was the only bad heart in the animal kingdom; that man was the only animal capable of feeling malice, envy,… — Mark Twain
I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate… — Marilyn Monroe

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