Selfishness Quotes & Sayings

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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.

Martin Luther King Jr

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

Hailliard

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

Martin Luther King Jr

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

Glenn Clark

Modesty and unselfishness - these are virtues which men praise - and pass by.

AndrÈ Maurois

Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hate. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.

William Arthur Ward

Don't expect too much of Christmas Day. You can't crowd into it any arrears of unselfishness and kindliness that may have accrued during the past twelve months.

Oren Arnold

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

Oscar Wilde

The greatest productive force is human selfishness.

Robert A. Heinlein

The greatest productive force is human selfishness.

Robert A. Heinlein

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

Henry Ward Beecher

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

Lao Tzu

Selfishness, if but reasonably tempered with wisdom, is not such an evil trait.

Giovanni Ruffini

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

John Owen

Modesty and unselfishness: These are the virtues which men praise, and pass by

Andre Maurois

We live in a world of transgressions and selfishness, and no pictures that represent us otherwise can be true, though, happily, for human nature, gleamings of that pure spirit in whose likeness man has been fashioned are to be seen, relieving its deformities, and mitigating if not excusing its crimes.

James Fenimore Cooper

Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.

David Seabury

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

Oscar Wilde

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

Martin Luther King Jr

Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination.

Christina Stead

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

Franz Kafka

Modesty and unselfishness: These are the virtues which men praise, and pass by.

Andre Maurois

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.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

Honor de Balzac

The principle of liberty and equality, if coupled with mere selfishness, will make men only devils, each trying to be independent that he may fight only for his own interest. And here is the need of religion and its power, to bring in the principle of benevolence and love to men.

John Randolph

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.

Sir Walter Scott

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

Ambrose Bierce

The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.

B. C. Forbes

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

Henry Wheeler Shaw

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