Selfishness Quotes
Glory built on selfish principles is shame and guilt.
William Cowper
Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.
Lawana Blackwell
We are too much haunted by ourselves; we project the central shadow of ourselves on everything around us. And then comes in the gospel to rescue us from this selfishness. Redemption is this--to forget self in God.
Frederick William Robertson
Selfishness at the expense of others' happiness is demonism.
Henry Ward Beecher
Self is ingenious, crooked, and, governed by subtle and snaky desire, admits of endless turnings and qualifications, and the deluded worshippers of self vainly imagine that they can gratify every worldly desire, and at the same time possess the Truth
James Allen
Modesty and unselfishness: These are the virtues which men praise, and pass by
Andre Maurois
It is much more important that we unite, harmonize and improve what we have than attempt to acquire more.
Henry Clay
Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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
Blaise Pascal
Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
Honor de Balzac
We hear talk of sanctified selfishness, of the adorable expansion of one race across the others, of noble hatreds and glorious conquests, and we see these ideals trying to take shape on all hands.
Henri Barbusse
Next to the ministry I know of no more noble profession than the law. The object aimed at is justice, equal and exact, and if it does not reach that end at once it is because the stream is diverted by selfishness or checked by ignorance. Its principles ennoble and its practice elevates.
William Jennings Bryan
