Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure. Votes: 9
Jane AustenSelfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. Votes: 8
Oscar WildeBeing sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it. Votes: 6
Douglas HortonGreat achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness. Votes: 6
Napoleon HillHe who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies. Votes: 4
TertullianA man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's. Votes: 4
Richard WhatelyAs selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision. Votes: 4
Helen KellerThe man who lives by himself and for himself is likely to be corrupted by the company he keeps. Votes: 4
Charles Henry ParkhurstSelfishness is the grand moving principle of nine-tenths of our actions. Votes: 3
Francois de La RochefoucauldSelfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion. Votes: 3
Israel ZangwillSelfishness, if but reasonably tempered with wisdom, is not such an evil trait. Votes: 3
Giovanni RuffiniSelfishness even binds many people, but blindly without having any liking for one another. Votes: 3
AnujSelfishness comes from poverty in the heart, from the belief that love is not abundant. Votes: 3
Miguel Angel RuizSelfishness is the unwillingness to give up your soul for the rehabilitation of your future. Votes: 3
Michael Bassey JohnsonSelfishness doesn't consist in a love to yourself, but in a big degree of such love. Votes: 3
AristotleSelfishness is one of the most destructive forces in man that is why life demands for its death. Votes: 3
Sunday AdelajaSelfishness is the making a man's self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doeth. Votes: 3
John OwenChildlessness doesn't make people selfish; selfishness makes people selfish. Votes: 2
Elizabeth GilbertI have freedom. But freedom means total selfishness. It means nobody cares much what you do. Votes: 2
Lynn BarberIf selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy! Votes: 2
Joyce MeyerThe age of selfishness and greed is over. The age of kindness and generosity is underway. Votes: 1
Laurence OvermireSlavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature-oppositi on to it is in his love of justice. Votes: 1
Abraham LincolnConceit is lovable and unconcealed ; vanity is supreme selfishness, usually hidden. Votes: 0
Myrtle ReedAll sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness. Votes: 0
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeWe all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness. Votes: 0
Booker T. WashingtonLet us reject violence and selfishness which could destroy our country's unity. Votes: 0
Mwai KibakiWe can neither change nor overpower God's eternal suffrage against selfishness and meanness. Votes: 0
James MartineauThe nuclear family doesn't work. It's very destructive; it grew out of selfishness. Votes: 0
Greg WisePossessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness. Votes: 0
Alan GarnerYou fueled my obession, even encouraged it and your selfishness ruined my life Votes: 0
Novala TakemotoThere are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through. Votes: 0
John GuntherWhat's wrong with selfishness and egotism? We live to die smiling, don't we? Votes: 0
Kazuya MinekuraThe Good Turn will educate the boy out of the groove of selfishness. Votes: 0
Baden Powell de AquinoIn an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction. Votes: 0
David MitchellThe greatest comforts and lasting peace are obtained, when one eradicates selfishness from within. Votes: 0
Guru Gobind SinghWe're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed. Votes: 0
Madeleine M. KuninLove is the doorway through which the human soul passes from selfishness to service. Votes: 0
Jack HylesIn this age of selfishness, selfless service is the only soap that truly purifies. Votes: 0
Mata AmritanandamayiPity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible. Votes: 0
Elizabeth BowenCamera but no selfies, which represent selfishness and egotism. Social media? Again: not really me. Votes: 0
Maurice LevyIf you could leave your selfishness, you would see how you've been torturing your soul. Votes: 0
RumiAlong with selfishness, anger is one of the most serious problems facing the world today Votes: 0
Dalai LamaThe planet should not be used as a warehouse of resources to serve humanity's selfishness Votes: 0
Rowan WilliamsIt's almost selfishness, taking care of your mental health. You can't just not do it. Votes: 0
Roz ChastYour conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.Listen to it carefully. Votes: 0
Richard BachThe force of selfishness is as inevitable and as calculable as the force of gravitation. Votes: 0
George Stillman HillardAre you willing to nourish your heart with love; then your selfishness will starve to death. Votes: 0
Kristian Goldmund AumannThe hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity. Votes: 0
Eric HofferIt seems to me that there are two great enemies of peace - fear and selfishness. Votes: 0
Katherine PatersonI'm just the mere shadow of my former selfishness. I crave the silhouette of your kiss. Votes: 0
Elvis CostelloWhile selfishness joins hands with no one of the virtues, benevolence is allied to them all. Votes: 0
Oliver GoldsmithOur selfishness will condemn us to the worst suffering that we ourselves have invented - loneliness. Votes: 0
Paulo CoelhoI must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment. Votes: 0
John FowlesThis idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural. Votes: 0
Jessica LangeAs you can see marriage is about putting away selfishness and taking on the concept of teamwork. Votes: 0
Jim GeorgeThere can be no Good Will. Will is always Evil; it is persecution to others or selfishness. Votes: 0
William BlakeIf we do not cling to riches, selfishness or greed-then I believe we are getting closer to God. Votes: 0
Daniel OrtegaFaith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life. Votes: 0
StendhalWe can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness behind. Votes: 0
John H. GrobergThe highest form of selfishness is that of the man who is content to go to heaven alone. Votes: 0
J. C. RyleGo to the cross of Christ, all you that want to be delivered from the power of selfishness. Votes: 0
J. C. RyleOne of the worst things sin did for man was to make him selfish, for selfishness cannot love. Votes: 0
Andy MurrayIt is folly to abstain all day long from food, but fail to abstain from sin and selfishness. Votes: 0
Saint John ChrysostomThe hardest work you and I will ever do is to put off our selfishness. It is heavy lifting! Votes: 0
Neal A. MaxwellEvery time we give in to selfishness and say âNo to God, we spoil his loving plan for us. Votes: 0
Pope FrancisIf you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears. Votes: 3 Cesare Pavese