Quotes of: Selfish-people Keyword

Childlessness doesn't make people selfish; selfishness makes people selfish.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.

Leigh Hunt

I know I'm not a selfish player. People around me know I'm not a selfish player. I do everything I can to make people around me understand I'm not a selfish player.

Carmelo Anthony

I gave too much to people.... So much selfish people in life.

Victoria Bando

Selfish people tend to only be good to themselves... then are surprised when they are alone.

Steve Maraboli

Marriage is just an elaborate game that allows two selfish people to periodically feel that they're not.

Couplehood

Yet, while producing increasingly selfish people, the mantra of the Left, and therefore of the universities and the media, has been for generations that capitalism and the free market, not the welfare state, produces selfish people.

Dennis Prager

Of all the vices which degrade the human character, Selfishness is the most odious and contemptible. An undue love of Self leads to the most mon¬strous crimes and occasions the greatest misfortunes both in States and Families. As a selfish man will ...

William Makepeace Thackeray

A garden is beautiful only when it is filled with people; they determine its beauty

Your Life Isn't for You: A Selfish Person's Guide to Being Selfless

Parents raise children then grow old, and their children forget the things their old parents did for them, because their brains don’t remember before they grew selfish. There are buildings all over the world full of old people sitting around lookin...

How to Hide from Humans

One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one’s own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns and derives from love.

The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism

I have learned that I always feel happier and healthier when I offer genuine love to other people.

Your Life Isn't for You: A Selfish Person's Guide to Being Selfless

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to...

The Selfish Gene

Here I am going to say something which may come as a bit of a shock. God doesn't necessarily want us to be happy. He wants us to be lovable. Worthy of love. Able to be loved by Him. We don't start off being all that lovable, if we're honest. What mak...

Shadowlands

The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.

The Portable Emerson

Love is what freed me from the cell of my selfishness.

Your Life Isn't for You: A Selfish Person's Guide to Being Selfless

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.

Chris Adami

IF you do good, people accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.do good anyway.

anomouys

Some selfish people rise because some kind people haven't learned the art of saying no to them.

Sanhita Baruah

We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment.

The Selfish Gene

A selfish man is a thief.

Jose Marti