The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places.
Selfishness Quotes (324 Quotes)
Yet one more item is needed to complete success, and that is the rendering of service to others in the community. Without this the mere satisfaction of selfish desire does not reach the top notch.
A liking for truth at any cost is a passion that spares nothing and that nothing resists. Its a vice, at times a comfort, or a selfishness.
Do not be scrupulous and think it selfish. You are obeying God's call and giving Him the opportunity to teach you what He wants you to know.
He's done as much for the University of Texas as any single athlete in any sport has ever done. How ungracious for us to try to force him into making a selfish decision.
My children cause me the most exquisite suffering of which I have any experience. It is the suffering of ambivalence the murderous alternation between bitter resentment and raw-edged nerves, and blissful gratification and tenderness. Sometimes I seem to myself, in my feelings toward these tiny guiltless beings, a monster of selfishness and intolerance.
Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.
That's them being selfish. I don't care. As long as my teammates aren't rooting for us to lose, I'm fine.
He's not selfish. He will give up the ball. Sometimes I think he might need to take more shots, but I'm fine with his playing right now. He is doing well. He gives it up and that's what we need right now.
It's funny. I'm attracted to things that don't have any impact on life. People say I've done a great thing for women. I don't think I have. People say I've given people courage. That makes me feel good, but I don't see how I do that. I think my running is a selfish thing. But it provides the challenge that allows me to feel good about myself. How can I expect to do well in other activities if I don't feel good about myself.
Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world.
The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.
Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.
Absence of gratitude is the mark of the narrow, uneducated mind. It bespeaks a lack of knowledge and the ignorance of self-sufficiency. It expresses itself in ugly egotism and frequently in wanton mischief. We have seen our beaches, our parks, our forests littered with ugly refuse by those who evidently have no appreciation for their beauty. I have driven through thousands of acres of blackened land scourged by a fire evidently set by a careless smoker whose only concern had been the selfish pleasure gained from a cigarette.
The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
Selfishness is the only real atheism; unselfishness the only real religion.
Practicing egotism and selfishness, they try to impress others by showing off. They perform all sorts of rituals, but they gain no acceptance.
We don't like the media. They're portraying him as a selfish person.
The results are already surprising me, because I was selfish. I believe I am going to make it.
Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever equalled the carnage perpetrated by disciples of altruism.
He was a foe without hate a friend without treachery a soldier without cruelty a victor without oppression, and a victim without murmuring. He was a public officer without vices a private citizen without wrong a neighbor without reproach a Christian without hypocrisy, and a man without guile. He was a Caesar, without his ambition Frederick, without his tyranny Napoleon, without his selfishness, and Washington, without his reward.
Advertisers are the interpreters of our dreams -- Joseph interpreting for Pharaoh. Like the movies, they infect the routine futility of our days with purposeful adventure. Their weapons are our weaknesses fear, ambition, illness, pride, selfishness, desire, ignorance. And these weapons must be kept as bright as a sword. (E(lwyn)
From the inception of the alphabet organizations, they have been very, very selfish. It's never been about what's good for boxing. It's always been about what's good for them, specifically what's good for them financially.
How a sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself He is his own exclusive object. Supreme selfishness is inculcated in him as his only duty,