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Selfishness Quotes by Veronica Roth
- Everything - our houses, our clothes, our hairstyles - is meant to help us forget ourselves and to protect us from vanity, greed and envy,…
- Suicide to them is an act of selfishness. Someone who is truly selfless does not think of himself often enough to desire death.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.’……
- I catch myself thinking 'Thank God For This' out of habit, and then I understand what he's so concerned about. What if my parents' God,…
- Take away someone’s fear, or low intelligence, or dishonesty . . . and you take away their compassion. Take away someone’s aggression and you take…
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