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Quotes about Selfishness

"A MAN IS CALLED SELFISH NOT FOR PURSUING
HIS OWN GOOD, BUT FOR NEGLECTING HIS
NEIGHBOR'S."
RICHARD WHATELY
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The most
miserable people
are those who
care only about
themselves,
understand only
their own
troubles and see
only their own
perspective.
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Self-ish -n
NOUN
1.
2.
devoted to or caring only for oneself;
concerned primarily with one's own interests,
benefits, welfare, etc., regardless of others.
characterized by or manifesting concern or
care only for oneself: selfish motives.
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I believe all suffering is caused
by ignorance. People inflict pain
on others in the selfish pursuit
of their happiness or
satisfaction. Yet true happiness
comes from a sense of peace
and contentment, which in turn
must be achieved through the
cultiv.
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'CM SELFISH, IMPATIENT
AND A LITTLE INSECURE
1 MAKE MISTAKES,
1 AM OUT OF CONTROL
AND AT TIMES HARD
TO HANDLE. BUT IF
YOU CAN'T HANDLE
MYWORST,
THEN YOU AS
HELL DON'T DESERVE
MEAT MY BEST."
MARILYN MONROE
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an Way to selfishness
is the Of
which invariably
needs and Wishes Of Others
before our own.
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as We 90 Of OtaP selfishness,
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an Way to selfishness
is the Of
which invariably
needs and Wishes Of others
before our own.
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Stop bei1•1g
selfish!
Strong Stepmom Awareness Campaign
Children need all the positive
support they can get.
Stop ripping them from
loving homes just because you
hate the other parent
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I have many friends who are
selfish. So [rather prefer to
stay alone because loneliness
_os better than a loveless
friendship.
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I have many friends who are
selfish. So [rather prefer to
stay alone because loneliness
is better than a loveless
friendship.
-Annu
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æopfle cæ tot
they just care fior you(Y
when
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Relationships
aren't designed
for selfisn
individuals.
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The distinction between selfishness
and self fullness is that self fullness
i' being true to one's needs, opinions
and perception without worrying
what others think and
understanding an important difference
that when we disappoint some people
we are actually allowing them to find
their own strength.
Concept from Carol Giffigan on the centraf
devefopmentaftask of adolescence
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people need to learn that
their actions
do affect other people.
So be careful what you say
and do, its not
always just about you..!
Daily inspiration
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"I'M SELFISH, IMPATIENT AND A LITTLE
INSECURE. I MAKE MISTAKES, I OF
CONTROL AND AT TIMES HARD TO HANDLE. BUT
IF CAN'T HANDLE ME AT
YOU SURE AS HELL DON'T DESERV
MARILYN MONROE
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I Corinthians 13:7
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I believe all suffering is caused
by ignorance. People inflict pain
on others in the selfish pursuit
of their happiness or
satisfaction. Yet true happiness
comes from a sense of peace
and contentment, which in turn
must be achieved through the
cultiv.
Dalai Lama
The spiritual head of TibetanBuddhism
(1391-1474)
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People need to learn that
their actions
do affect other people.
So be careful what you say
and do, its not
always just about you..!
Beauty for Ashes
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KEEP
CALM
AND
AVOID
SELFISH PEOPLE
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Selfishness is
not living as
one wishes to
live, it is
asking others
to live as one
wishes to live.
Oscar Wilde
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Selfish people lose
so much in life,
because even
when they realize
they are wrong,
they don't know
how to ask for
forgiveness or
show regrets.
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"Generally speaking, the
most miserable people I
know are those who are
obsessed with themselves;
the happiest people I know
are those who lose
themselves in the service of
others...By and large, I have
come to see that if we
complain about life, it is
because we are thinking
only of ourselves." GBH
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Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure. Votes: 9

Jane Austen
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. Votes: 8

Oscar Wilde
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Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness. Votes: 6

Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race. Votes: 6

William E. Gladstone
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love. Votes: 6

Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Selfishness, not love, is the actuating motive of the gallant. Votes: 6

Madame Roland
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Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it. Votes: 6

Douglas Horton
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Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness. Votes: 6

Napoleon Hill
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Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself. Votes: 6

Henry Ward Beecher
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Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others. Votes: 6

B. C. Forbes
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The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Votes: 6

B. C. Forbes
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Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. Votes: 6

Martin Luther King, Jr.
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To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature. Votes: 6

Adam Smith
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Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires. Votes: 4

Laozi
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Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt. Votes: 4

William Cowper
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Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others. Votes: 4

Ambrose Bierce
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When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package. Votes: 4

John Ruskin
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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies. Votes: 4

Tertullian
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A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's. Votes: 4

Richard Whately
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As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision. Votes: 4

Helen Keller
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The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit. Votes: 4

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The man who lives by himself and for himself is likely to be corrupted by the company he keeps. Votes: 4

Charles Henry Parkhurst
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Selfishness is one of the more common faces of pride. 'How everything affects me' is the center of all that matters - self-conceit, self-pity, worldly self-fulfillment, self-gratification, and self-seeking. Votes: 4

Ezra Taft Benson
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Selfishness is never so exquisitely selfish as when it is on its knees. ... Self turns what would otherwise be a pure and powerful prayer into a weak and ineffective one. Votes: 4

Aiden Wilson Tozer
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I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction. Yet true happiness comes from a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved through the cultivation of altruism, of love and compassion and elimination of ignorance, selfishness and greed. Votes: 4

Dalai Lama
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Selfishness is blind. Votes: 3

Mahatma Gandhi
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Selfishness has never been admired. Votes: 3

C. S. Lewis
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Selfishness is unnecessary. War is obsolete. Votes: 3

R. Buckminster Fuller
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Selfishness and self-absorption are deadly charm-exterminators. Votes: 3

Loretta Young
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Selfishness is the only real atheism. Votes: 3

Israel Zangwill
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Selfishness keeps man blind through life. Votes: 3

Hazrat Inayat Khan
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Selfishness is the root of great evil. Votes: 3

Richard G. Scott
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Selfishness is a giant in destruction of relationships. Votes: 3

Irina Sopas
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Selfishness creates greed and greed destroys the soul. Votes: 3

Zarina Bibi
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Selfishness at the expense of others happiness is demonism. Votes: 3

Henry Ward Beecher
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Selfishness Stops The Flow Of Blessings To You and Others Votes: 3

Brenda Johnson Padgitt
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Selfishness alone is sufficient to bring apocalypse upon a nation. Votes: 3

Khem Veasna
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Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles. Votes: 3

Harry S. Truman
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Selfishness is the grand moving principle of nine-tenths of our actions. Votes: 3

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion. Votes: 3

Israel Zangwill
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Selfishness in art, as in other things, is sensibility kept at home. Votes: 3

Washington Allston
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Selfishness is the root and source of all natural and moral evils. Votes: 3

Nathanael Emmons
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Selfishness, if but reasonably tempered with wisdom, is not such an evil trait. Votes: 3

Giovanni Ruffini
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Selfishness beats altruism within groups. Altruistic groups beat selfish groups. Everything else is commentary. Votes: 3

David Sloan Wilson
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Selfishness even binds many people, but blindly without having any liking for one another. Votes: 3

Anuj
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Selfishness comes from poverty in the heart, from the belief that love is not abundant. Votes: 3

Miguel Angel Ruiz
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Selfishness is the unwillingness to give up your soul for the rehabilitation of your future. Votes: 3

Michael Bassey Johnson
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Selfishness doesn't consist in a love to yourself, but in a big degree of such love. Votes: 3

Aristotle
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Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism. Votes: 3

Arthur Helps
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Selfishness draws men into a spiritual vacuum where, absorbed in self service, they shut out all others. Votes: 3

William R. Bradford
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Selfishness is one of the most destructive forces in man that is why life demands for its death. Votes: 3

Sunday Adelaja
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Selfishness is the making a man's self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doeth. Votes: 3

John Owen
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Love created this world, & the lack of it can kill it. Selfishness, self-absorption , arrogance & indifference never built anything. Votes: 3

John Hope Bryant
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Selfishness and separatation have led me to believe that the world is not my problem. I am the world. Votes: 3

Edward Kowalczyk
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The act of love . . . is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself. Votes: 3

Albert Camus
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Selfishness is weakness. But loving and caring for others is a position of power beyond anything we can possibly imagine. Votes: 3

Joel Osteen
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Selfishness is the greatest challenge for a coach. Most players are more concerned with making themselves better than the team. Votes: 3

John Wooden
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We must learn that to enjoy happiness we must conscientiously and continuously seek to spread happiness. Selfishness is suicidal to happiness. Votes: 3

B. C. Forbes
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Selfishness makes Christmas a burden; Love makes it a delight. The joy of brightening a child's heart creates the magic of Christmas. Votes: 3

William Carey Jones
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Selfishness, control, and fear will break almost any relationship. Generosity, freedom, and love will create the most beautiful relationship: an ongoing romance. Votes: 3

Don Miguel Ruiz
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Selfishness can be a virtue. Selfishness is essential to survival, and without survival we cannot protect those whom we love more than ourselves. Votes: 3

Duke Ellington
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Selfishness is the bedrock on which all moral behavior starts and it can be immoral only when it conflicts with a higher moral imperative. Votes: 3

Robert A. Heinlein
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Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to. Votes: 3

Oscar Wilde
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Selfishness is much more than an ordinary problem because it activates all the cardinal sins! It is the detonator in the breaking of the Ten Commandments. Votes: 3

Neal A. Maxwell
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Selfishness is the controlling force of sinful living. It is this motive which pulsates through the natural mind, emotions and will - self-pleasing, self-serving, living for self. Votes: 3

Walter J Chantry
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Selfishness and fear are at the root of (pro-abortion) legislation...We in the Church have a great struggle to defend life...life is a gift not a threat. Votes: 3

Pope Benedict XVI
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Without the protection of surliness and levity, all children would be crushed by the past"”the past of others, loaded onto their shoulders. Selfishness is their saving grace. Votes: 3

Margaret Atwood
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Selfishness is the biggest form of helplessness as it makes the person blind so much that he fails to search his true self for being always in the lurch. Votes: 3

Anuj
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Selfishness, eager for a heaven of enjoyment, is quite a different thing in the soul from love and purity and truth, yearning together for what is their natural element. Votes: 3

William Mountford
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Selfishness of the stable or rigid sort is as a rule more bitterly resented than the more fickle variety, chiefly, no doubt, because, having more continuity and purpose, it is more formidable. Votes: 3

Charles Horton Cooley
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Thread of Selfishness in Web of Life.—Deuteronomy contains much instruction regarding what the law is to us, and the relation we shall sustain to God as we reverence and obey Votes: 3

Ellen G. White
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Selflessness is like waiting in a hospital In a badly-fitting suit on a cold wet morning. Selfishness is like listening to good jazz With drinks for further orders and a huge fire. Votes: 3

Philip Larkin
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Selfishness does not mean only to do things for one's self. One may do things, affecting others, for his own pleasure and benefit. This is not immoral, but the highest of morality. Votes: 3

Ayn Rand
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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 qualities, and to overlook or extenuate our defects. Votes: 3

William Wilberforce
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Happiness must be shared. Selfishness it its enemy; to make another happy is to be happy one's self. It is quiet, most easily won in moments of solitude and reflection. It comes from within. Votes: 3

William B. Ogden
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Selfishness, narcissism, being uncomfortable in your own skin, not feeling connected to the world around you, feeling dislocated from family and youth, having a strange relationship with your childhood - all those things feel really true to me. Votes: 3

Jason Reitman
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Selfishness at the core is to think you have a special problem- a problem that God cannot deal with, that God didn't deal with at the cross. You do not have anything special that has been dealt out to you. Votes: 3

Eric Ludy
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This laudable quality is commonly known by the name of Manners and Good-breeding, and consists in a Fashionable Habit, acquir'd by Precept and Example, of flattering the Pride and Selfishness of others, and concealing our own with Judgment and Dexterity. Votes: 3

Bernard de Mandeville
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Selfishness and demagoguery take advantage of liberty. The selfish hand constantly seeks to control government, and every increase of governmental power, even to meet just needs, furnishes opportunity for abuse and stimulates the effort to bend it to improper uses. Votes: 3

Charles Evans Hughes
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Declare your jihad on thirteen enemies you cannot see - Egoism, Arrogance, Conceit, Selfishness, Greed, Lust, Intolerance, Anger, Lying, Cheating, Gossiping and Slandering. If you can master and destroy them, then will be ready to fight the enemy you can see. Votes: 3

Al-Ghazali
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Fear says that what God has called me to is blatantly impossible. Selfishness says that the cost is unacceptably prohibitive. My humanity harbors other lesser agendas that seduce me to my own death. And I would be wise to believe none of it. Votes: 3

Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak. Votes: 2

Madame de Stael
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Childlessness doesn't make people selfish; selfishness makes people selfish. Votes: 2

Elizabeth Gilbert
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I have freedom. But freedom means total selfishness. It means nobody cares much what you do. Votes: 2

Lynn Barber
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If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy! Votes: 2

Joyce Meyer
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I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness. Votes: 2

Gary Chapman
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If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears. Votes: 2

Cesare Pavese
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I like to think that my arrogance, impetuosity, impatience, selfishness and greed are the qualities that make me the lovable chap I am. Votes: 2

Richard Hammond
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The rising sun can dispel the darkness of night, but it cannot banish the blackness of malice, hatred, bigotry, and selfishness from the hearts of humanity. Votes: 2

David O. McKay
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The sin which is indulged to the greatest extent, which separates us from God and produces so many spiritual disorders, and which are contagious, is selfishness. Votes: 2

Ellen G. White
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Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity. Votes: 2

William Howard Taft
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We can pay the ecological debt by changing economic models, and by giving up luxury consumption, setting aside selfishness and individualism, and thinking about the people and the planet Earth. Votes: 2

Evo Morales
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The 20th century has been marked by cynicism, selfishness, greed, and the desire to please, all without changing the status quo. In the 21st century, we must resurrect solidarity and compassion. Votes: 2

Oscar Arias
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I am confident that nobody... will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself. Votes: 2

Nelson Mandela
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What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president. Votes: 2

Lyndon B. Johnson
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Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to balance it against the altruism to which we should all aspire. It is a difficult balance to strike, but no definition of goodness can be complete without it. Votes: 2

Alan Dershowitz
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We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself. Votes: 2

Pope Francis
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I write about the power of trying, because I want to be okay with failing. I write about generosity because I battle selfishness. I write about joy because I know sorrow. I write about faith because I almost lost mine, and I know what it is to be broken and in need of redemption. I write about gratitude because I am thankful - for all of it. Votes: 2

Kristin Armstrong
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The age of selfishness and greed is over. The age of kindness and generosity is underway. Votes: 1

Laurence Overmire
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Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature-oppositi on to it is in his love of justice. Votes: 1

Abraham Lincoln
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And because of our selfishness, we will be condemned to the worst torture humankind ever invented for itself: loneliness. Votes: 1

Paulo Coelho
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There is no such thing as low-cost Christianity. Following Jesus means swimming against the tide, renouncing evil and selfishness Votes: 1

Pope Francis
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Nothing is more condemnable than selfishness. A man who thinks of himself alone is the most unlucky person of all. Votes: 1

Anand Neelakantan
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What's the matter with the world? Why, there ain't nothing but one word wrong with everyone of us, and that's selfishness. Votes: 1

Will Rogers
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Of all influences that cause men to choose wrong, selfishness is undoubtedly the strongest. Where it is, the Spirit is not. Votes: 1

William R. Bradford
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Lessen selfishness and restrain desires. Votes: 0

Laozi
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Judeo-Christian conservatism overcomes natural selfishness. Votes: 0

Jim DeMint
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Happiness begins when selfishness ends. Votes: 0

John Wooden
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Happiness begins where selfishness ends. Votes: 0

John Wooden
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Generosity is the only legitimate selfishness. Votes: 0

Mario Benedetti
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Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect Votes: 0

George Sand
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Love . . . [is] a lack of personal selfishness. Votes: 0

Theodore M. Burton
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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness. Votes: 0

Woodrow Wilson
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Love is the selfishness of two persons. Votes: 0

Antoine de la Sale
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The greatest productive force is human selfishness. Votes: 0

Robert A. Heinlein
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Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self. Votes: 0

Anton Chekhov
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Service without humility is selfishness and egotism. Votes: 0

Mahatma Gandhi
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The basis of all sin is selfishness. Votes: 0

David O. McKay
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Satanism represents a form of controlled selfishness. Votes: 0

Anton Szandor LaVey
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Charity does not like arithmetic; selfishness worships it. Votes: 0

Mason Cooley
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Atheism exists only in coldness, selfishness, and baseness. Votes: 0

Madame de Stael
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Maybe selflessness was only selfishness on another level. Votes: 0

Margaret Landon
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Suicide is the selfishness at its maxima expression Votes: 0

Jaime Tenorio Valenzuela
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Never forget - happiness ends when selfishness begins. Votes: 0

Bill Walton
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In short, selfishness is the opposite of love. Votes: 0

Tim LaHaye
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In Scouting you are combating the brooding of selfishness. Votes: 0

Baden Powell de Aquino
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No universal selfishness can bring social good to all, Votes: 0

W. E. B. Du Bois
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The Lord supplies our needs, but not our selfishness Votes: 0

R.J. Rushdoony
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Cleanse your body and soul, removing malice, selfishness and desire. Votes: 0

Morihei Ueshiba
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Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness. Votes: 0

Honore de Balzac
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To be saved is only this-salvation from our own selfishness. Votes: 0

John Greenleaf Whittier
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Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame. Votes: 0

Jose Rizal
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Abortion and racism stem from the same poisonous root, selfishness. Votes: 0

Hillary Clinton
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Conceit is lovable and unconcealed ; vanity is supreme selfishness, usually hidden. Votes: 0

Myrtle Reed
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All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness. Votes: 0

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Failing to hold someone accountable is ultimately an act of selfishness. Votes: 0

Patrick Lencioni
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Take the selfishness out of anger and you're left with determination. Votes: 0

Bernie Glassman
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For Silicon Valley and its idols, innovation is the new selfishness. Votes: 0

Evgeny Morozov
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Greed and selfishness do seem to be central motivators of mankind. Votes: 0

Raymond Khoury
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In a word, most bad attitudes are the result of selfishness. Votes: 0

John C. Maxwell
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Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness. Votes: 0

Agnes Repplier
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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness. Votes: 0

Booker T. Washington
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Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination. Votes: 0

Christina Stead
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There is only one force stronger than selfishness, and that is stupidity. Votes: 0

Ellen Glasgow
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When Christ's love fills our hearts, it puts selfishness on the run. Votes: 0

Billy Graham
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It is selfishness which is the cause of most of our misery. Votes: 0

Gordon B. Hinckley
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Let us reject violence and selfishness which could destroy our country's unity. Votes: 0

Mwai Kibaki
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We can neither change nor overpower God's eternal suffrage against selfishness and meanness. Votes: 0

James Martineau
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The nuclear family doesn't work. It's very destructive; it grew out of selfishness. Votes: 0

Greg Wise
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Possessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness. Votes: 0

Alan Garner
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You fueled my obession, even encouraged it and your selfishness ruined my life Votes: 0

Novala Takemoto
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There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through. Votes: 0

John Gunther
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Amor deliria nervosa isn't a disease of love. It's a disease of selfishness. Votes: 0

Lauren Oliver
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What's wrong with selfishness and egotism? We live to die smiling, don't we? Votes: 0

Kazuya Minekura
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Aggression is the first step on the slippery slope to selfishness and chaos. Votes: 0

Anne Campbell
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The Good Turn will educate the boy out of the groove of selfishness. Votes: 0

Baden Powell de Aquino
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Caring for our own hearts isn't selfishness; it's how we begin to love. Votes: 0

John Eldredge
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In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction. Votes: 0

David Mitchell
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The greatest comforts and lasting peace are obtained, when one eradicates selfishness from within. Votes: 0

Guru Gobind Singh
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We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed. Votes: 0

Madeleine M. Kunin
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A gamester, as such, is the cool, calculating, essential spirit of concentrated, avaricious selfishness. Votes: 0

Henry Ward Beecher
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Love is the doorway through which the human soul passes from selfishness to service. Votes: 0

Jack Hyles
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In this age of selfishness, selfless service is the only soap that truly purifies. Votes: 0

Mata Amritanandamayi
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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible. Votes: 0

Elizabeth Bowen
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Lust, anger, attachment, greed, over pride be,Jealousy, selfishness, injustice, cruelty, ego truly;- 153 - Votes: 0

Munindra Misra
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Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation. Votes: 0

John Stuart Mill
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Camera but no selfies, which represent selfishness and egotism. Social media? Again: not really me. Votes: 0

Maurice Levy
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If you could leave your selfishness, you would see how you've been torturing your soul. Votes: 0

Rumi
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Along with selfishness, anger is one of the most serious problems facing the world today Votes: 0

Dalai Lama
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The planet should not be used as a warehouse of resources to serve humanity's selfishness Votes: 0

Rowan Williams
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It's almost selfishness, taking care of your mental health. You can't just not do it. Votes: 0

Roz Chast
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Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.Listen to it carefully. Votes: 0

Richard Bach
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The force of selfishness is as inevitable and as calculable as the force of gravitation. Votes: 0

George Stillman Hillard
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Are you willing to nourish your heart with love; then your selfishness will starve to death. Votes: 0

Kristian Goldmund Aumann
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The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity. Votes: 0

Eric Hoffer
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It seems to me that there are two great enemies of peace - fear and selfishness. Votes: 0

Katherine Paterson
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There are points in your life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary. Votes: 0

Kris Kristofferson
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I'm just the mere shadow of my former selfishness. I crave the silhouette of your kiss. Votes: 0

Elvis Costello
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The greatest surprise of human evolution may be that the highest form of selfishness is selflessness. Votes: 0

Robert E. Ornstein
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While selfishness joins hands with no one of the virtues, benevolence is allied to them all. Votes: 0

Oliver Goldsmith
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The truth is that cupidity, selfishness, envy, malice, lust, vindictiveness, are constant vices of human nature. Votes: 0

William Graham Sumner
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Our selfishness will condemn us to the worst suffering that we ourselves have invented - loneliness. Votes: 0

Paulo Coelho
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Tenderness and respect-never selfishness-must be the guiding principles in the intimate relationship between husband and wife Votes: 0

Howard W. Hunter
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I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment. Votes: 0

John Fowles
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This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural. Votes: 0

Jessica Lange
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As you can see marriage is about putting away selfishness and taking on the concept of teamwork. Votes: 0

Jim George
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There can be no Good Will. Will is always Evil; it is persecution to others or selfishness. Votes: 0

William Blake
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Like nature itself, modern economic life is driven by relentless competition and unbridled selfishness. Or is it? Votes: 0

Paul J. Zak
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Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty. Votes: 0

Henry Ward Beecher
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It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise. Votes: 0

Richard Dawkins
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So it is the fear, weakness, selfishness, and cowardice of onlookers that permit evil behavior to persist. Votes: 0

Laura Schlessinger
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[The seers call him wise] whose every attempt is free, without any desire for gain, without any selfishness. Votes: 0

Swami Vivekananda
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Getting enough of what you want without depriving anyone else is the ultimate act of selfishness and sanity. Votes: 0

Joy Browne
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The attack on "selfishness" is an attack on man's self-esteem; to surrender one, is to surrender the other. Votes: 0

Ayn Rand
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If we do not cling to riches, selfishness or greed-then I believe we are getting closer to God. Votes: 0

Daniel Ortega
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Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life. Votes: 0

Stendhal
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We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness behind. Votes: 0

John H. Groberg
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The highest form of selfishness is that of the man who is content to go to heaven alone. Votes: 0

J. C. Ryle
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Go to the cross of Christ, all you that want to be delivered from the power of selfishness. Votes: 0

J. C. Ryle
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Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness. Votes: 0

Nicolas Chamfort
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One of the worst things sin did for man was to make him selfish, for selfishness cannot love. Votes: 0

Andy Murray
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Love is the most ethically consistent experience, because selfishness and altruism no longer seem opposed or in conflict. Votes: 0

Peter Breggin
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It is folly to abstain all day long from food, but fail to abstain from sin and selfishness. Votes: 0

Saint John Chrysostom
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The hardest work you and I will ever do is to put off our selfishness. It is heavy lifting! Votes: 0

Neal A. Maxwell
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Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery. Votes: 0

Franz Kafka
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Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing. Votes: 0

Charles Caleb Colton
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Most human beings know only the language of exploitation. Due to their selfishness, they are unable to consider others. Votes: 0

Mata Amritanandamayi
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We are not slow at discovering the selfishness of others; for this plain reason--because it clashes with our own. Votes: 0

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
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Every divorce is the result of selfishness on the part of one or both parties to a marriage contract. Votes: 0

Spencer W. Kimball
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I don't think the revisionist historians are accurate. I think their agendas are clouded by selfishness and anger and rage. Votes: 0

Sherman Alexie
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When work is viewed only as a source of economic gain the centrality of work becomes self-indulgence, selfishness and egocentrism. Votes: 0

Sunday Adelaja
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One thing is clear to me, that no indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness. Votes: 0

George MacDonald
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To practice Zen Buddhism is to train oneself to eliminate hatred, anger and selfishness and to develop loving-kindness towards all. Votes: 0

Thich Thien-An
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There is a prodigious selfishness in dreams: they live perfectly deaf and invulnerable amid the cries of the real world. Votes: 0

George Santayana
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The vital Christian arouses opposition because he is a standing rebuke to the selfishness and sin of those around him. Votes: 0

John Hagee
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In contrast to the path of selfishness, there is no room for road rage on the straight and narrow way. Votes: 0

Neal A. Maxwell
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Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice. Votes: 0

Swami Vivekananda
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Lust is raw selfishness. It's all about my wants, my needs, my pleasure. Most love songs are actually lust songs. Votes: 0

Rick Warren
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For me, I wanted to create something that's much more driven by a type of selfishness, a type of decadence. Votes: 0

Kehinde Wiley
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As you help those in need, selfishness will fall away. And, without even noticing you will find your own fulfillment. Votes: 0

Mata Amritanandamayi
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Imagining that you are deep and complex, but others are simple, is one of the primary signs of malignant selfishness. Votes: 0

Stefan Molyneux
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Every time we give in to selfishness and say “No— to God, we spoil his loving plan for us. Votes: 0

Pope Francis
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National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice. Votes: 0

Samuel Smiles
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How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! Supreme selfishness is inculcated upon him as his only duty. Votes: 0

Charles Lamb
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Desire is the root of selfishness; clear your heart of desire and be selfless. Selflessness is the key to inner peace. Votes: 0

Christofer Drew
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Take the selfishness out of this world and there would be more happiness than we should know what to do with. Votes: 0

Josh Billings
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Wisdom means that it gives you detachment, detachment from all that is selfishness, self-centredness, self-obsession, ego - all connected with self. Votes: 0

Nirmala Srivastava
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Legal plunder has two roots: One, as we have just seen, is in human selfishness; the other is in false philanthropy. Votes: 0

Frederic Bastiat
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One of the unseen benefits of having children is that they deliver you from your own selfishness. There's no going back. Votes: 0

Martin Amis
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Gratitude free of compassion is selfishness. It is nothing more than being happy for what has been done to benefit you. Votes: 0

Derek R. Audette
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Our selfishness is so robust and many-clutching that, well encouraged, it easily devours all sustenance away from our poor little scruples. Votes: 0

George Eliot
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Any opposition not based on rationalism or science or experience will one day or other, reveal the fraud, selfishness, lies and conspiracies. Votes: 0

Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
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Courage, I realised, was not the absence of fear: it was the absence of selfishness; putting someone else's interest before one's own. Votes: 0

Michelle Cohen Corasanti
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The hatred and cruelty which have their source in selfishness are ineffectual things compared with the venom and ruthlessness born of selflessness. Votes: 0

Eric Hoffer
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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society. Votes: 0

E. O. Wilson
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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance. Votes: 0

Graham Greene
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Personal importance, or taking things personally, is the maximum expression of selfishness because we make the assumption that everything is about me. Votes: 0

Miguel Angel Ruiz
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Competition, which is the instinct of selfishness, is another word for dissipation of energy, while combination is the secret of efficient production. Votes: 0

Edward Bellamy
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Certain beliefs must accompany every action: One should act without selfishness, cultivate compassion for all living things, and develop respect for others. Votes: 0

Dalai Lama
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The common trait of all evil is nothing other than egoism... Basically all human evil comes from what we call the selfishness. Votes: 0

Rudolf Steiner
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Some critics accuse capitalism of being a selfish system, but the selfishness is not in capitalism - it is in human nature. Votes: 0

Dinesh D'Souza
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WHAT IF we all treat other people as we wish to be treated? MORE happiness. LESS selfishness, crime, fraud, hatred, terrorism, wars... Votes: 0

Phil Harding
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So long as selfishness makes government needful at all, it must make every government corrupt, save one in which all men are represented. Votes: 0

Herbert Spencer
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History of Ireland--lawlessness and turbulency, robbery and oppression, hatred and revenge, blind selfishness everywhere--no principle, no heroism. What can be done with it? Votes: 0

William Allingham
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Leadership means firmness, not harshness or bullying; understanding, not weakness; justice, not irresponsible freedom; humaneness, not intolerance; generosity, not selfishness; pride, not egotism. Votes: 0

Omar N. Bradley
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We need leadership that can elevate religion and morality to their position of paramount importance and thus eliminate growing selfishness, immorality and materialism. Votes: 0

George W. Romney
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It is an act of extreme selfishness for a married couple to refuse to have children when they are able to do so. Votes: 0

Spencer W. Kimball
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When I was an animal I evolved through selfishness. Now that I am a man my evolution can be achieved only through self-sacrifice. Votes: 0

Sri Chinmoy
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My desire for the part of Mammy was not dominated by selfishness for Hollywood has been good to me and I am grateful Votes: 0

Hattie McDaniel
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Fatherhood: How God blesses you out of your selfishness and floods your soul with love, all while reminding you how little you know... Votes: 0

Mark Hart
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Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either extreme egotism, selfishness, evil -- or else an absolute ignorance. Votes: 0

Graham Greene
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Maybe a new religion will rise now. Maybe without it, man will crumble in cynicism and selfishness because he really needs his gods. Votes: 0

Anne Rice
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Suicide to them is an act of selfishness. Someone who is truly selfless does not think of himself often enough to desire death. Votes: 0

Veronica Roth
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If there were more temple work done in the Church, there would be less of selfishness, less of contention, less of demeaning others. Votes: 0

Gordon B. Hinckley
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Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism. Votes: 0

Sri Aurobindo
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I feel now, that Arabia could easily be evangelized within the next thirty years if it were not for the wicked selfishness of Christians. Votes: 0

Samuel Marinus Zwemer
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As long as greed is the root of all evil, there will not be peace.Get rid of selfishness and greed too will disappear. Votes: 0

Zarina Bibi
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Thorough selfishness destroys or paralyzes enjoyment. A heart made selfish by the contest for wealth is like a citadel stormed in war, utterly shattered. Votes: 0

Henry Ward Beecher
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It is to the credit of human nature that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Votes: 0

Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Turkey, Japan do great work because they can keep under control their little personal selfishness, egoism, jealousy, etc. when they get down to work. Votes: 0

Sri Aurobindo
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It's usually the stupid people that develop long illnesses. You need more than indolence and selfishness, you need endurance to make a good patient. Votes: 0

W. H. Auden
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Gratitude: An imaginary emotion that rewards an imaginary behavior, altruism. Both imaginaries are false faces for selfishness, which is a real and honest emotion. Votes: 0

Robert A. Heinlein
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Democracy is threatened by the inertia of good people, by the selfishness of most people, and by the evil designs of a few people. Votes: 0

Stanley King
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The squirrel hoards nuts and the bee gathers honey, without knowing what they do, and they are thus provided for without selfishness or disgrace. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven. Votes: 0

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Our enemies believed America was weak and materialistic, that we would splinter in fear and selfishness. They were as wrong as they are evil. Votes: 0

George W. Bush
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Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age; but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to join selfishness. Votes: 0

Franz Grillparzer
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Wars come from egotism and selfishness. Every macrocosmic or world war has its origin in microcosmic wars going on inside millions and millions of individuals. Votes: 0

Fulton J. Sheen
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The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. Votes: 0

John Kenneth Galbraith
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By obliging men to turn their attention to other affairs than their own, it rubs off that private selfishness which is the rust of society. Votes: 0

Alexis de Tocqueville
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Every moral act of love, of mercy, and of sacrifice brings to pass the end of the world where hatred, cruelty, and selfishness reign supreme. Votes: 0

Nikolai Berdyaev
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The organization and constant onward sweep of this movement exemplifies the resentment of the many toward the selfishness, greed and the neglect of the few. Votes: 0

John L. Lewis
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There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of, before I became President of the U.S. Votes: 0

James K. Polk
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Thus worshiping, serving, studying, praying, each in its own way squeezes selfishness out of us; pushes aside our preoccupations with the things of the world. Votes: 0

Neal A. Maxwell
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The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness or sinister interest. Votes: 0

Emile Souvestre
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There is a need for everyone's brain to be imprinted with more self-enhancing impulses: the impulse to peace over violence, love over fear, compassion over selfishness. Votes: 0

Deepak Chopra
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Very few people chose war. They chose selfishness and the result was war. Each of us, individually and nationally, must choose: total love or total war. Votes: 0

David Dellinger
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I think schools, as they are now regulated, the hot-beds of vice and folly, and the knowledge of human nature supposedly attained there, merely cunning selfishness. Votes: 0

Mary Wollstonecraft
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If you must hate, if hatred is the leaven of your life, which alone can give flavor, then hate what should be hated: falsehood, violence, selfishness. Votes: 0

Ludwig Borne
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Understand the suffering of worldly existence. Abandon its causes of ignorance and selfishness. Practice the path of meditation and compassion. Awaken from suffering within Great Peace. Votes: 0

Gautama Buddha
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Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion. Votes: 0

John Amos Comenius
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The first thing any coaching staff must do is weed out selfishness. No program can be successful with players who put themselves ahead of the team. Votes: 0

Johnny Majors
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It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures. Votes: 0

Robert Greene
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Giving out of your surplus does not make you generous, it makes your selfishness more tolerable! Giving while you are lacking is what pleases the Lord." Votes: 0

William Branks
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Money only appeals to selfishness and always tempts its owners irresistibly to abuse it. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus, or Gandhi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie? Votes: 0

Albert Einstein
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Let this be thy whole endeavor, this thy prayer, this thy desire,-that thou mayest be stripped of all selfishness, and with entire simplicity follow Jesus only. Votes: 0

Thomas a Kempis
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A liking for truth at any cost is a passion that spares nothing and that nothing resists. It's a vice, at times a comfort, or a selfishness. Votes: 0

Albert Camus
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There is no place for selfishness-and no place for fear! Do not be afraid, then, when love makes demands. Do not be afraid when love requires sacrifice Votes: 0

Pope John Paul II
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As frost to the bud, and blight to the blossom, even such is self-interest to friendship; for confidence cannot dwell where selfishness is porter at the gate. Votes: 0

Martin Farquhar Tupper
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How sick one gets of being "good," how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness. Votes: 0

Alice James
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How sick one gets of being 'good', how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness. Votes: 0

Alice James
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Economics is sometimes associated with the study and defense of selfishness and material inequality, but it has an egalitarian and civil libertarian core that should be celebrated. Votes: 0

Tyler Cowen
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If people are innately saddled with certain sins and flaws, like selfishness, prejudice, sort-sightedness, and self-deception, then political reform would seem to be a waste of time. Votes: 0

Steven Pinker
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Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind because the truth lies elsewhere Votes: 0

Blaise Pascal
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I believe we are most likely to succeed when ambition is focused on noble and worthy purposes and outcomes rather than on goals set out of selfishness. Votes: 0

John Wooden
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Why do I write? From selfishness. Because this state of liquefied, complex concentration, however faintly and dimly I'm able to perceive it, is the greatest pleasure I know. Votes: 0

Francis Spufford
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Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever equalled the carnage perpetrated by disciples of altruism. Votes: 0

Ayn Rand
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These small things - nutrition, place, climate, recreation, the whole casuistry of selfishness - are inconceivably more important than everything one has taken to be important so far. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche
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I'm really interested in the difference between selfishness and generosity. It confuses me to no end because sometimes it all just feels like pure indulgence on my part. Votes: 0

Nate Lowman
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In one degree or another we all struggle with selfishness. Since it is so common, why worry about selfishness anyway? Because selfishness is really self-destruction in slow motion. Votes: 0

Neal A. Maxwell
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it. Votes: 0

E. W. Howe
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The fact is that sin is the most unmanly thing in God's world. You never were made for sin and selfishness. You were made for love and obedience. Votes: 0

J. G. Holland
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How much that the world calls selfishness is only generosity with narrow walls,--a too exclusive solicitude to maintain a wife in luxury, or make one's children rich. Votes: 0

Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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Did the mass of men know the actual selfishness and injustice of their rulers, not a government would stand a year. - The world would foment with revolution. Votes: 0

Theodore Parker
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If we read the Western Canon in order to form our social, political, or personal moral values, I firmly believe we will become monsters of selfishness and exploitation. Votes: 0

Harold Bloom
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How often, in this cold and bitter world, is the warm heart thrown back upon itself! Cold, careless, are we of another's grief; we wrap ourselves in sullen selfishness. Votes: 0

Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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Love. Help with no expectations. Destroy selfishness, self... At the end of our lives, I believe the soul will be asked, "What did you do for your fellow man?" Votes: 0

Misty Upham
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Scientists have discovered that the small brave act of cooperating with another person, of choosing trust over cynicism, generosity over selfishness, makes the brain light up with quiet joy. Votes: 0

Natalie Angier
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Sordid selfishness doth contract and narrow our benevolence, and cause us, like serpents, to infold ourselves within ourselves, and to turn out our stings to the entire world besides. Votes: 0

Walter Scott
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I can only say that I have acted upon my best convictions, without selfishness or malice, and that by the help of God I shall continue to do so. Votes: 0

Abraham Lincoln
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I don't think there's any need to have essays advocating selfishness among human beings; I don't know what your impression has been, but some things require no further reinforcement. Votes: 0

Christopher Hitchens
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We are vulnerable if we can be taken by a wave of emotion, invaded by an invidious impulse, roughed up by resentment, or engulfed by a surge of selfishness. Votes: 0

Neal A. Maxwell
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It's something about the inevitability. How nothing can keep them apart--not her selfishness, or his evil, or even death, in the end...their love is their only redeeming quality. Votes: 0

Stephenie Meyer
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Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice. Votes: 0

Elihu Root
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...short-sighted men who in their greed and selfishness will, if permitted, rob our country of half its charm by their reckless extermination of all useful and beautiful wild things... Votes: 0

Theodore Roosevelt
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Altruism is written in everlasting and resplendent character on the Cross of Christ, and it was at Calvary that the centre of life was shifted from selfishness to sacrifice. Votes: 0

Jon Weber
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Pulling weeds and planting seeds. That's the story of life. We are individual lots on which either weeds of selfishness or fruit of the Holy Spirit grows and flourishes. Votes: 0

Dennis Rainey
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The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The State must act as the guardian of a millennial future in the face of which the wishes and the selfishness of the individual must appear as nothing and submit. Votes: 0

Adolf Hitler
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Without the help of selfishness, the human animal would never have developed. Egoism is the vine by which man hoisted himself out of the swamp and escaped from the jungle. Votes: 0

Blaise Cendrars
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Very unfairly, there's a negative image of the kid, which really stems from the greed and selfishness of the NBA and NCAA. They're forcing these kids to go to school. Votes: 0

Sonny Vaccaro
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I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness. Votes: 0

Albert Camus
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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 and the shackles of selfishness. Votes: 0

Corrie Ten Boom
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True patriots believe that freedom from responsibility is selfishness, freedom from sacrifice is cowardice, freedom from tolerance is prejudice, freedom from stewardship is exploitation, and freedom from compassion is cruelty. Votes: 0

Eric Liu
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Undoubtedly there are, in connection with each of these things, cases of fraud, swindling, and other financial crimes; that is to say, the greed and selfishness of men are perpetual. Votes: 0

William Graham Sumner
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Often, vegan advocates assume that a person's defensiveness is the result of selfishness or apathy, when in fact it is much more likely the result of systematic and intensive social conditioning. Votes: 0

Melanie Joy
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When leisure is a selfish luxury, its very activity, when it stirs, is apt to be only a kind of indolence taking exercise, that it may the better digest its selfishness. Votes: 0

Henry Ward Beecher
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It is also important to guard against mistaking for good-nature what is properly good-humor,--a cheerful flow of spirits and easy temper not readily annoyed, which is compatible with great selfishness. Votes: 0

Richard Whately
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The myth of hell represents all the meanness, all the revenge, all the selfishness, all the cruelty, all the hatred, all the infamy of which the heart of man is capable. Votes: 0

Robert Green Ingersoll
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I was surprised by how much I like being a father; surprised at what a decent father I am, because I was afraid I wouldn't be able to dump my selfishness. Votes: 0

Michael Zaslow
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Our world is drowning in a sea of self-centeredness. You can make yourself quite unique right away by leaving this ocean of selfishness and choosing to be curious about other people. Votes: 0

John Bytheway
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The effect of capitalism is to steer human selfishness so that, through the invisible hand of competition, the energies of the capitalist produce the abundance from which the whole society benefits. Votes: 0

Dinesh D'Souza
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What the writers do, and we hopefully can bring to life, is that they present characters who, on the surface, aren't always heroic and their acts aren't always devoid of selfishness. Votes: 0

Charlie Cox
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Yes, forget your weakness, whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism, it is selfishness after. all, for it is a dwelling on self. Forget your weakness; and remember your strength. Votes: 0

Joseph Barber Lightfoot
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True happiness comes from having a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved by cultivating altruism, love and compassion, and by eliminating anger, selfishness and greed. Votes: 0

Dalai Lama
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The more our hearts and minds are turned to assisting others less fortunate than we, the more we will avoid the spiritually cankering effects that result from greed, selfishness and overindulgence. Votes: 0

Joe J. Christensen
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The rights of the people to the exercise and fruits of their own industry can never be protected against the selfishness of rulers not subject to their control at short periods. Votes: 0

Thomas Jefferson
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I have learned, by some experience, that virtue and patriotism, vice and selfishness, are found in all parties, and that they differ less in their motives than in the policies they pursue. Votes: 0

William H. Seward
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... we performers are monsters. We are a totally different, far-out race of people. I totally and completely admit, with no qualmsat all, my egomania, my selfishness, coupled with a really magnificent voice. Votes: 0

Leontyne Price
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Only by realizing what selfishness and lack of generosity really are can the delicious fragrance of true love and effective generosity, which is not of the mind, burst forth in our hearts.. Votes: 0

Samael Aun Weor
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PERSONAL IMPORTANCE or taking things personally, is an expression of SELFISHNESS because we make the assumption that everything is about ME!! NOTHING PEOPLE DO IS BECAUSE OF YOU!! IT'S BECAUSE OF THEMSELVES!! Votes: 0

Miguel
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The sun of truth rises in the human being and illuminates his world when he lifts his mind from the darkness of ignorance and selfishness into the light of wisdom and altruism Votes: 0

Samael Aun Weor
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The greatest slave is not he who is ruled by a despot, great though that evil be, but he who is in the thrall of his own moral ignorance, selfishness, and vice. Votes: 0

Samuel Smiles
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The reason why wicked men and devils hate God is, because they see Him in relation to themselves. Their hearts rise up in rebellion, because they see Him opposed to their selfishness. Votes: 0

Charles Grandison Finney
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If your prayer is selfish, the answer will be something that will rebuke your selfishness. You may not recognize it as having come at all, but it is sure to be there. Votes: 0

William Temple
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Blessed loves! how happy they have made us on the earth; what will they be when they have deepened through ages, with no alloy of envy or suspicion or selfishness or sorrow? Votes: 0

Randolph Sinks Foster
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If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn anyone for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper roots for its causes than we have knowledge of. Votes: 0

Bram Stoker
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The inescapable fact is that when we build a society based on greed, selfishness, and ruthless competition, the fruits we can expect to reap are economic insecurity at home and international discord abroad. Votes: 0

Tommy Douglas
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I think for anyone who follows the 'artistic life,' a certain amount of selfishness and self-involvement is part of the package. You're probably already disregarding a certain material life you could have. Votes: 0

David Chase
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Leave the quarters of the close-fisted selfishness and live in the edifice of an open-handed generosity. God gives to you, so you can share when it's required of you! Give out; conquer greed! Votes: 0

Israelmore Ayivor
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Silence...leads us to make a gift of self rather than a selfishness that has been gift-wrapped ...Silence does not mean running away but rather recollecting ourselves in the open space of God. Votes: 0

Madeleine Delbrel
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A gene might be able to assist replicas of itself that are sitting in other bodies. If so, this would appear as individual altruism but it would be brought about by gene selfishness. Votes: 0

Richard Dawkins
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We found evolution will punish you if you're selfish and mean. For a short time and against a specific set of opponents, some selfish organisms may come out ahead. But selfishness isn't evolutionarily sustainable. Votes: 0

Chris Adami
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Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness "“ all of them due to the offenders' ignorance of what is good or evil. Votes: 0

Marcus Aurelius
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Don't we forgive everything of a lover? We forgive selfishness, desire, guile. As long as we are the motive for it...There are some European words you can never translate properly into another language. Votes: 0

Michael Ondaatje
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He who does most to cure woman of her weakness, her frivolity, and her servility will likewise at the same stroke do most to cure man of his brutality, his selfishness and his sensuality. Votes: 0

Frances Power Cobbe
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People's lives are filled with vice and the trappings of it. Ambition, greed and selfishness all have to do with vice. Sooner or later, you have to see through it or you don't survive. Votes: 0

Bob Dylan
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Romance is alive and well in America, but the 50 percent who can't make it work fail because of selfishness. It gets down to that. You can't oversimplify it because every situation is so complex. Votes: 0

Donny Osmond
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This selfishness is not only part of me. It is the most living part.It is somehow transcending rather than by avoiding that selfishness that I can bring poise and balance into my life. Votes: 0

F. Scott Fitzgerald
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There was no such thing as luck. Luck was a word idiots used to explain the consequences of their own rashness, and selfishness, and stupidity. More often than not bad luck meant bad plans. Votes: 0

Joe Abercrombie
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As a father now, I wouldn't do what my dad did, because it left me feeling emotionally unstable as a kid. But he didn't do the things he did out of selfishness or malice. Votes: 0

Anthony Kiedis
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The despairing are always being urged to abstain from selfishness, to think of others first. This seems unfair. Why load them with responsibility for the welfare of others, when their own already weighs them down?" Votes: 0

Julian Barnes
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You are chosen to be faithful women of God in our day, to stand above pettiness, gossip, selfishness, lewdness, and all other forms of ungodliness. Recognize your divine birthright as daughters of our Heavenly Father. Votes: 0

Howard W. Hunter
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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 of generosity would become the measure of a human life Votes: 0

Karen Armstrong
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A trustworthy marriage has weathered temptation and anger and jealousy, resentment, self-righteousness and a little bit of selfishness. When you get over and get through that, then maybe you can see the light to love. Votes: 0

Ruby Dee
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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 sacrifices or the selfishness of its forefathers. -Juan Crisostomo Ibarra Votes: 0

Jose Rizal
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According to the first image of international relations, the locus of the important causes of war is found in the nature and behavior of man. Wars result from selfishness, from misdirected aggressive impulses, from stupidity. Votes: 0

Kenneth Waltz
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Having kids is a full-time job. And I don't know any woman who isn't constantly fighting between the exquisite selfishness required to be an artist and this exquisite selflessness that's required to be a parent. Votes: 0

Liz W. Garcia
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Not perhaps until later life, until the follies, passions, and selfishness of youth have died out, do we . . . recognize the the inestimable blessing, the responsibility awful as sweet, of possessing or of being a friend. Votes: 0

Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
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Empty me of the selfishness inside, every vain ambition and the poison of my pride, and any foolish thing my heart holds to, Lord empty me of me so I can be filled with you. Votes: 0

Chris Sligh
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Anyone who recognizes this regime [Israel] because of the pressure of the World oppressor, or because of naiveté or selfishness, will be eternally disgraced and will burn in the fury of the Islamic nations. Votes: 0

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last. Votes: 0

Florence Nightingale
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You must learn to meditate and stop your thoughts. You must overcome all egotism and selfishness by serving others. You must cleanse your mind so that enlightenment will find a happy place to reside there. Votes: 0

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express. Votes: 0

George A. Smith
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When marriage exposes a person's selfishness and sins it's doing what it is meant to do: bringing our sins and wounds to light so we can recognize them, confess them, and begin the healing process. Votes: 0

Christopher West
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The heart of our problem is the selfishness in our heart. The human spirit soars with hope when lifted by an encouraging word. The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. Votes: 0

Pierre de Coubertin
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Marriage is a state that is attended with so much care and trouble, that it is a kind of faulty indulgence and selfishness to livesingle, in order to avoid the difficulties it is attended with. Votes: 0

Samuel Richardson
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Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: for it is perhaps your own coldness and avarice and mediocrity and materialism and selfishness that have chilled his faith. Votes: 0

Thomas Merton
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There is a big, beautiful world that could be destroyed by selfishness and foolishness. We musicians have it within our power to help save it. In a small way, every single one of us counts. Votes: 0

Pete Seeger
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If you seek in the spirit of selfishness, to grasp all as your own, you shall lose all, and be driven out of the world, at last, naked and forlorn, to everlasting poverty and contempt. Votes: 0

Jonathan Edwards
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The selfishness of an age that has devoted itself to the mere cult of pleasure has tainted the whole human race with an error that makes all our acts more or less lies against God. Votes: 0

Thomas Merton
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The worthless and offensive members of society, whose existence is a social pest, invariably think themselves the most ill-used people alive, and never get over their astonishment at the ingratitude and selfishness of their contemporaries. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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 kind of love may only be possible in Abnegation. I do not know.

Veronica Roth
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The fun, joy, and humor dry up in a relationship when one of the partners is swimming in gin. To my way of thinking, it is selfishness personified to see life through the bottom of a liquor bottle.

Ginger Rogers
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There are so many ways a family can unravel. All it takes is a tiny slash of selfishness, a rip of greed, a puncture of bad luck. And yet, woven tightly, family can be the strongest bond imaginable.

Jodi Picoult
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To humanity, which sometimes seems to be lost and dominated by the power of evil, selfishness and fear, the risen Lord gives the gift of His love which forgives, reconciles and reopens the soul to hope.

Pope John Paul II
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It will require more than a few hours of fasting and prayer to cast out such demons as selfishness, worldliness, and unbelief. Repentance, to be of any avail, must work a change of heart and of conduct.

Theodore L. Cuyler
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Through the higher love the whole life of man is to be elevated from temporal selfishness to the spring of all love, to God: man will again be master over nature by abiding in God and lifting her up to God.

Meister Eckhart
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Maternity is on the face of it an unsociable experience. The selfishness that a woman has learned to stifle or to dissemble where she alone is concerned, blooms freely and unashamed on behalf of her offspring.

Emily James Smith Putnam
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My best quality is that I'm a big hearted person. I'm resilient, too. My worst quality is selfishness, although everyone is guilty of that to an extent. Everyone should be, I think - you need to respect yourself.

Matthew McConaughey
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If we knew that god exists, such knowledge would make morality impossible. For, if we acted morally from fear or fright, or confident of a reward, then this would not be moral. It would be enlightened selfishness.

Immanuel Kant
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If there's anything I'd like to preach about, the loudest, other than the Gospel, it's selfishness. If there's anything I'd like to impress upon the hearts and minds of my people, it's to get out of the self life.

Jack Hyles
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The gospel of licentiousness, of selfishness, of blaming all the difficulties of life on external factors - these are the things that are killing people today in ways that the slave whips and the overseers couldn't.

Alan Keyes
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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 do better, harder things than we can get ourselves to do on our own.

David Foster Wallace
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By developing a sense of respect for others and a concern for their welfare, we reduce our own selfishness, which is the source of all problems, and enhance our sense of kindness, which is a natural source of goodness.

Dalai Lama
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He was no martyr. He was no hero But in the last two years, selfishness gave way to selflessness, lies gave way to truth and indulgence gave way to spirituality, and anyone watching that couldn't help but be moved by it.

Lex Lasry
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Every man must decide whether he will walk in the creative light of altruism or the darkness of destructive selfishness. This is the judgment. Life's persistent and most urgent question is 'What are you doing for others?'

Martin Luther
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I think that there’s too much sugar in the world and not enough salt. Kids want to be challenged. Humans want to aspire to something. You don’t win in life and you don’t win in athletics with softness or selfishness.

Buzz Williams
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If pity was always equally alive and acting in all individuals and in all circumstances, we could do away with moral. Unfortunately, it is not compassion, but rather it's contrary, selfishness, that act most strongly in us.

African Spir
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Bear in mind three essential qualities in all games of intellect:– Never to show selfishness or to wound the feelings of your adversary. To be modest with a good game. To lose without ill-temper, and to win without bragging.

W. Patterson
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It was the mystical dogma of Bentham and Adam Smith and the rest, that some of the worst of human passions would turn out to be all for the best. It was the mysterious doctrine that selfishness would do the work of unselfishness.

Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Though selfishness hath defiled the whole man, yet sensual pleasure is the chief part of its interest, and, therefore, by the senses it commonly works; and these are the doors and windows by which iniquity entereth into the soul.

Richard Baxter
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Before man can be free, and equal, and truly wise, he must cast aside the chains of habit and superstition; he must strip sensuality of its pomp, and selfishness of its excuses, and contemplate actions and objects as they really are.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Given a man full of faith, you will have a man tenacious in purpose, absorbed in one grand object, simple in his motives, in whom selfishness has been driven out by the power of a mightier love, and indolence stirred into unwearied energy.

Alexander MacLaren
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Two conflicting forces cannot exist in one human heart. When doubt reigns, faith cannot abide. Where hatred rules, love is crowded out. Where selfishness rules, there love cannot dwell. When worry is present, trust cannot crowd its way in.

Billy Graham
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Why fight the 'natural' (oh, weaselly word!) order of things? Why? Because of this--one fine day, a purely predatory world shall consume itself. In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.

David Mitchell
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Government began in tyranny and force, began in the feudalism of the soldier and bigotry of the priest; and the ideas of justice and humanity have been fighting their way, like a thunderstorm, against the organized selfishness of human nature.

Wendell Phillips
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The meaning ascribed in popular usage to the word 'selfishness' is not merely wrong: it represents a devastating intellectual 'package-deal,' which is responsible, more than any other single factor, for the arrested moral development of mankind.

Ayn Rand
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The only care That I shall share Shall be the care of others, And on the road I'll halve the load Of overburdened brothers. I rather guess It's selfishness That drives me to such actions, For in this plan I find I can Forget my own distractions.

John Kendrick Bangs
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Go on bravely. Do not expect success in a day or a year. Always hold on to the highest. Be steady. Avoid jealousy and selfishness. Be obedient and eternally faithful to the cause of truth, humanity, and your country, and you will move the world.

Swami Vivekananda
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Thus suicidal selfishness, that blights The fairest feelings of the opening heart, Is destined to decay, whilst from the soil Shall spring all virtue, all delight, all love, And judgment cease to wage unnatural war With passion's unsubduable array.

Percy Bysshe Shelley
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The root of humanly caused evil is not man's animal nature, not territorial aggression, or innate selfishness, but our need to gain self-esteem, deny our mortality, and achieve a heroic self-image. Our desire for the best is the cause of the worst.

Sam Keen
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In order to swim one takes off all one's clothes--in order to aspire to the truth one must undress in a far more inward sense, divest oneself of all one's inward clothes, of thoughts, conceptions, selfishness etc., before one is sufficiently naked.

Soren Kierkegaard
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Let us make a pledge that, if not all day or all night long, at least for a few moments every day, we will make an effort to experience love, love that is free from selfishness, free from desire, free from expectation, love that is complete freedom.

Gurumayi Chidvilasananda
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But as to women, who can penetrate the real sufferings of their she condition? Man's very sympathy with their estate has much of selfishness and more suspicion. Their love, their virtue, beauty, education, but form good housekeepers, to breed a nation.

Lord Byron
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Everything - our houses, our clothes, our hairstyles - is meant to help us forget ourselves and to protect us from vanity, greed and envy, which are just forms of selfishness. If we have little, and want for little, and we are all equal, we envy no one.

Veronica Roth
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The mere absorption of facts and truths is so exclusively an individual affair that it tends very naturally to pass into selfishness. There is no obvious social motive for the acquirement of mere learning, there is no clear social gain in success thereat.

John Dewey
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In the march towards Truth, anger, selfishness, hatred, etc., naturally give way, for otherwise Truth would be impossible to attain. A man who is swayed by passions may have good enough intentions, may be truthful in word, but he will never find the Truth.

Mahatma Gandhi
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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.'… ‘And those who blamed cowardice were the Dauntless.

Veronica Roth
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We legislate against forestalling and monopoly; we would have a common granary for the poor; but the selfishness which hoards thecorn for high prices, is the preventative of famine; and the law of self-preservation is surer policy than any legislation can be.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The only struggle which religions can justify, the only struggle worthy of humans, is the moral struggle against humanity's own disordered passions, against every kind of selfishness, against attempts to oppress others, against every type of hatred and violence.

Pope John Paul II
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I myself feel, and also tell other Buddhists that the question of Nirvana will come later. There is not much hurry. If in day to day life you lead a good life, honesty, with love, with compassion, with less selfishness, then automatically it will lead to Nirvana.

Dalai Lama
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We make allowance for a certain degree of selfishness in men; because we know it to be inseparable from human nature, and inherent in our frame and constitution. By this reflexion we correct those sentiments of blame, which so naturally arise upon any opposition.

David Hume
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In the final analysis our greatest problem with holiness is not that our concepts of holiness are feeble, but that our hearts are rebellious. We are selfish , that's our problem. And the fact that we often won't admit our selfishness shows how deep the pride goes.

Floyd McClung
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Real love, no matter how unworthy the object, is a glorious adventure. It bursts the shackles of selfishness. One's world is bigger, broader; one's sympathies are amazingly more tender. No matter what the result, if you haven't really loved, you haven't really lived.

Emilie Loring
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We cannot doubt that self-interest is the mainspring of human nature. It must be clearly understood that this word is used here to designate a universal, incontestable fact, resulting from the nature of man, and not an adverse judgment, as would be the word selfishness.

Frederic Bastiat
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We can also allow our Soulmate to pass us by,without accepting him or her,or even noticing. Then we will need another incarnation in order to find that Soulmate. And because of our selfishness, we will be condemned to the worst torture humankind ever invented for itself: loneliness.

Paulo Coelho
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To practice properly the Art of Peace, you must: Calm the spirit and return to the source. Cleanse the body and spirit by removing all malice, selfishness, and desire. Be ever grateful for the gifts received from the universe, your family, Mother nature, and your fellow human beings.

Morihei Ueshiba
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Take away someone's fear, or low intelligence, or dishonesty . . . and you take away their compassion. Take away someone's aggression and you take away their motivation, or their ability to assert themselves. Take away their selfishness and you take away their sense of self-preservation.

Veronica Roth
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Mundus vult decipi'—the world wants to be deceived. To live without deception presupposes standards beyond the reach of most people whose existence is largely shaped by compromise, evasion and mutual accommodation. Could they face their weakness, their vanity and selfishness, without a mask?

Abraham Joshua Heschel
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As Jesus explained, the right things have to die so the right things can live--we die to selfishness, greed, power, accumulation, prestige, and self-preservation, giving life to community, generosity, compassion, mercy, brotherhood, kindness, and love. The gospel will die in the toxic soil of self.

Jen Hatmaker
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Something terrible has happened to the soul of the Republican Party. We've gone from bad economic doctrine. We've even gone beyond selfishness and special interests. At this point we're talking about a state of mind that takes positive glee in inflicting further suffering upon the already miserable.

Paul Krugman
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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. Self interest exists, attachment based on personal gain exists, complacency exists. But not love. Love has to be reinvented, that’s certain.

Arthur Rimbaud
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Faced with today's problems and disappointments , many people will try to escape from their responsibility. Escape in selfishness, escape in sexual pleasure, escape in drugs, escape in violence, escape in indifference and cynical attitudes. I propose to you the option of love, which is the opposite of escape.

Pope John Paul II
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Jealousy and selfishness (22 quotes)

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears. Votes: 3 Cesare Pavese

Money selfishness (24 quotes)

False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons. Votes: 1 Joseph Franklin Rutherford

Quit Selfishness (26 quotes)

A new you can still emerge from the old you. Votes: 1 Bamigboye Olurotimi


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