Selfishness Quotes

693 Selfishness quotes by 476 unique authors

My hair would continue to gray, and then one day, it would fall out entirely, and then, on a day meaninglessly close to the present… — Gary Shteyngart
Everything - our houses, our clothes, our hairstyles - is meant to help us forget ourselves and to protect us from vanity, greed and envy,… — Veronica Roth
The Resurrection was the greatest ‘eucatastrophe’ possible in the greatest Fairy Story — and produces that essential emotion: Christian joy which produces tears because it… — J.R.R. Tolkien
We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness. — Booker T. Washington
What i’m saying is, my friends, one ought to be able to let go. If a path does not please us, instead of insisting on… — Elif Safak
Love is not selective, desire is selective. In love there are no strangers. When the centre of selfishness is no longer, all desires for pleasure… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Real leaders are people who “help us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and selfishness and weakness and fear and get us to… — David Foster Wallace
There is little hope of the repentance and redemption of certain some until they have committed one or another of the many wrong things of… — George MacDonald
Not selfishness, but precisely the absence of a self. Look at them. The man who cheats and lies, but preserves a respectable front. He knows… — Ayn Rand
Suicide to them is an act of selfishness. Someone who is truly selfless does not think of himself often enough to desire death. — Veronica Roth
No man is more cheated than the selfish man. — Henry Ward Beecher
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
Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles. — Harry S. Truman
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
Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you. — Dejan Stojanovic
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
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
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
And because of our selfishness, we will be condemned to the worst torture humankind ever invented for itself: loneliness. — Paulo Coelho
In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction. — David Mitchell
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
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
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
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
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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