Advertisements
Selfish Quotes
Advertisements






Advertisements
Text Quotes
Love, friendship, respect, admiration are the emotional response of one man to the virtues of another, the spiritual payment given in exchange for the personal, selfish pleasure which one man derives from the virtues of another man’s character (Selfish Quotes)
I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction. Yet true happiness comes from a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved through the cultivation of altruism, of love and compassion and elimination of ignorance, selfishness and greed (Selfish Quotes)
The simple recognition that everyone else wants to be happy and not to suffer, just as I do, serves as a constant reminder against selfishness and partiality. It reminds us there is little to be gained from being kind and generous while hoping to win something in return. Actions motivated by a desire to earn a good name for ourselves are still selfish, even if they appear to be acts of kindness (Selfish Quotes)
A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors (Selfish Quotes)
There are many selfish people who are extremely original, then they take those pure ideas and use them to raise themselves up, that is an insincere move (Selfish Quotes)
We know that there are chiselers. At the bottom of every case of criticism and obstruction we have found some selfish interest, some private axe to grind (Selfish Quotes)
A personal selfish prayer is bad whether made before an image or an unseen God (Selfish Quotes)
People have these weird ideas about artists being romantic, generous people, and sometimes I feel like an asshole, a selfish kid, a brat, the lucky one, because I get to do this and it’s how I make my living. (Selfish Quotes)
I would have been a terrible mother because I’m basically a very selfish human being. Not that that has stopped most people going off and having children. (Selfish Quotes)
Richard Dawkins’s The Selfish Gene is a classic example of science fiction (Selfish Quotes)
I do not think it is selfish to want to donate a kidney only to family members (Selfish Quotes)