Different colors Quote by Eliezer Yudkowsky

“What we traditionally call ‘selfish tendencies’ is only a narrow interpretation of what self-serving behaviour entails, wherein human characteristics are perceived through the flawed…

— Athene's Theory of Everything

The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.

— B. C. Forbes

Whatever our background, culture or race, what rewards us most powerfully and consistently are the most deceptively simple abilities of all: the ability to…

— Stephanie Dowrick

“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting…

— Oscar Wilde

“Hard work can sometimes substitute for natural ability, but natural ability almost never makes up for not being willing to do the work.”

— Catherine Ryan Hyde

You simply cannot give to the world all that you have to give to the world if you do not remain true to your…

— Mike Dooley

“A core human trait is to cooperate, at the core of our economics is to compete in order to have: to have what we…

— Steve Carlsson

Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

Human beings are endowed by nature with both selfish and unselfish impulses.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

“When you give to grow others’ capabilities, you create abundance in their lives. No matter who you are, you can give power to people…

— Tim Sanders

“It is not by wearing down into uniformity all that is individual in themselves, but by cultivating it and calling it forth ... that…

— John Stuart Mill

“Selfishness is the absence of selflessness”

— Thabiso Monkoe