(328 quotes found)
“There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.”
Dr. Laurence J. Peter
“The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.”
Florence Nightingale
“In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves”
Abraham J. Heschel
“Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.”
Kahlil Gibran
“If you're working to make the playing field fair and level, you're working for the wrong reasons. Work to take the opportunities that arise and use your individual talents to excel at those opportunities.”
Rush Limbaugh
“Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hate. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.”
William Arthur Ward
“The selfish smiling fool, and the sullen frowning fool, shall be both thought wise, that they may be a rod.”
William Blake
“When men, lost in the devious ways of error and self, have forgotten the "heavenly birth," ... they set up artificial standards by which to judge one another”
James Allen
“One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.”
Mother Teresa
“A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.”
Albert Einstein
