(328 quotes found)
“People, who rise above their petty individual selfishness and work for the welfare of society are considered patriots.”
Sam Veda
“As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision”
Helen Keller
“I am a greedy, selfish bastard. I want the fact that I existed to mean something.”
Harry Chapin
“It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility. from The Scarlet Letter”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
“It is grossly selfish to require of one's neighbour that he should think in the same way, and hold the same opinions. Why should he? If he can think, he will probably think differently. If he cannot think, it is monstrous to require thought of any kind.”
Oscar Wilde
“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
“Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.”
Doug Horton
“Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race”
William E. Gladstone
“Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil --or else an absolute ignorance.”
Graham Greene
“Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it.”
Louis Kronenberger
