Selfishness Quotes

693 Selfishness quotes by 476 unique authors

God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness and wake us up to the presence… — William Nicholson
Generosity is the only legitimate selfishness. — Mario Benedetti
I have observed that the prosperity or misery of each people is in direct proportion to its liberties or its prejudices and, accordingly, to the… — Jose Rizal
Love is the most selfish of all the passions. — Alexandre Dumas
Love...no such thing. Whatever it is that binds families and married couples together, that's not love. That's stupidity or selfishness or fear. Love doesn't exist.… — Arthur Rimbaud
People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon. — Vanna Bonta
Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness… — Corrie Ten Boom
Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame. — Jose Rizal
Comrades!' he cried. 'You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us… — George Orwell
Maybe a new religion will rise now. Maybe without it, man will crumble in cynicism and selfishness because he really needs his gods. — Anne Rice
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 â€˜eucatastropheâ€™ possible in the greatest Fairy Story â€” 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 iâ€™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 â€œhelp 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

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