Selfishness Quotes

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.

Light, Creative, Darkness

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Philosophy, Moral, Modern

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

Live, Living, Others

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
Napoleon Hill

Great, Sacrifice, Born

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
Helen Keller

Love, Mind, Joy

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.
Lao Tzu

Few, Simplicity, Desires

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

Honesty, Conscience, Listen

I am confident that nobody... will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.
Nelson Mandela

Family, Time, Good

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
Jane Austen

Hope, Forgiven, Cure

Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.
William E. Gladstone

Greatest, Human, Race

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

Religion, Real, Aspiration

Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error. The error is thinking that when someone stands in the way of our wants, we can justify getting that person out of our lives. Abortion and racism stem from the same poisonous root, selfishness.
Alveda King

Someone, Human, Person

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

Travel, Wish, Light

To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
Adam Smith

Nature, Human, Others

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

Others, Forgive, Himself

Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.
Henry Ward Beecher

Society, Law, Liberty

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

Sorry, After, Act

As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed and selfishness prevent that and there is always one bad apple in every barrel.
Rick Danko

Time, Bad, Greed

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
Honore de Balzac

General, Courtesy, Thin

Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Love, Inspire, Qualities

Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
E. O. Wilson

Society, Group, Individual

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

Happy, Ignorance, Evil

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Sympathy, Virtue, Consistent

I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness.
Gary Chapman

Nature, Today, Often

There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of, before I became President of the U.S.
James K. Polk

Before, Less, President

Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
Woodrow Wilson

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Politics, Lost, Another

Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.
Charles Caleb Colton

Nothing, Alive, Essence

Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Childlessness doesn't make people selfish; selfishness makes people selfish.
Elizabeth Gilbert

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