Quotes of: Selfishness Keyword

If we want to live perfectly happy lives...we must drive out selfish character tendencies such as pride, ego, vanity, jealousy, lusts, envy and worry. When we learn to live selflessly, putting others before ourselves, committing to what is noble, rig...

A Walk with Prudence

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the m...

Alexander Fraser Tytler

Selfishness is the unwillingness to give up your soul for the rehabilitation of your future.

Classic Quotations From The Otherworlds

If you are not selfish and greedy, you picked up riches along the street.

Classic Quotations From The Otherworlds

It is the selfish parents who are to blame. Pay attention, be involved in your children’s lives. They are your legacy, your only hope.

Benjamin

My feelings about my mortality are less selfish than they used to be. I used to affect a cavalier attitude to death; now I see it from my son's perspective.

Rufus Sewell

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

What is Above is Within ... the Circumference is Winthin, Without is formed the Selfish Center, and the Circumference still expands going forward to Eternity.

Jerusalem

Cats aren’t as friendly as they appear: fur, teeth, instinct, selfishness and cunning. Essentially they’re just big rats.

The Kills

Everyone is good at heart. We all do things with the greatest of intentions and most of the time we do it for selfish reasons. Myself included.

Skye

You fueled my obession, even encouraged it and your selfishness ruined my life

Missin' (Novel)

As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so sex with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

My Religion

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.

Mastery

When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.

Life of Pi

A selfish person can still love someone else, can't they? Even when they've hurt them and let them down.

Sister

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live.

The Soul of Man Under Socialism

Don’t shave my head to make your wig of selfishness. Shave it because you care.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less...selfish.

The Uncommon Reader

The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places. (p 57)

Voice of Reason

Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.

Wanda

Suicide is selfish. Don’t take your own life—take someone else’s.

Whenever You're Gone, I'm Here For You