Quotes of Selfishness - somelinesforyou

“ To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. ”

- Gustave Flaubert

“ Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires. ”

- Lao tzu

“ Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives. ”

- Lawana Blackwell

“ Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Glory built on selfish principles is shame and guilt. ”

- William Cowper

“ Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself. ”

- Henry Ward Beecher

“ Selfishness is the only real atheism; unselfishness the only real religion. ”

- Israel Zangwill

“ SELFISH, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ The greatest productive force is human selfishness. ”

- Robert Anson Heinlein

“ Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it. ”

- Doug Horton

“ All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness. ”

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

- Helen Keller

“ How a sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! He is his own exclusive object. Supreme selfishness is inculcated in him as his only duty. ”

- Charles Lamb

“ Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love. ”

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

“ Selfishness, not love, is the actuating motive of the gallant. ”

- Mme. Roland

“ The force of selfishness is as inevitable and as calculable as the force of gravitation. ”

- Unknown

“ To be successful you have to be selfish, or else you never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish. Stay reachable. Stay in touch. Don't isolate. ”

- Michael Jordan

“ The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship. ”

- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

“ Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance. ”

- Graham Greene

“ Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best. ”

- Edward Abbey

“ Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires. ”

- Lao tzu

“ Selfishness is the making a man's self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doth. ”

- John Owen

“ Take the selfishness out of this world and there would be more happiness than we should know what to do with. ”

- Henry Wheeler Shaw

“ That man who lives for self alone Lives for the meanest mortal known. ”

- Joaquin Miller

“ To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom. ”

- William Penn

“ Be yourself. Follow your instincts. Success depends, at least in part, on the ability to "carry it off.". ”

- Donald Rumsfeld

“ Let us reject violence and selfishness which could destroy our country's unity. ”

- Mwai Kibaki

“ There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time! ”

- Coco Chanel

“ All endeavors which are directed to a purely worldly end, contain within themselves the seeds of their own corruption. ”

- Theodore White

“ Shyness is just egoism out of its depth. ”

- Penelope Keith
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