(326 quotes found)
“The only thing you will ever possess is yourself, and that only briefly, if at all.”
Rain Bojangles
“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
“People wrapped up in themselves make very small packages.”
Jessica Kennedy
“It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.”
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
“All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.”
Oscar Wilde
“Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without in himself”
Henry Ward Beecher
“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 peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved through the cultiv”
Dalai Lama
“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
“If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.”
Cesare Pavese
