Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

Old Mr. Rarx was not a pleasant man to look at, nor yet to talk to, or to be with, for no one could help seeing that he was a sordid and selfish character, and that he had warped further and further out of the straight with time.

Charles Dickens

Notwithstanding his very liberal laudation of himself, however, the Major was selfish. It may be doubted whether there ever was a more entirely selfish person at heart; or at stomach is perhaps a better expression, seeing that he was more decidedly endowed with that latter organ than with the former.

Alan Bennett

To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less...selfish.

Chris Christie

I have another question: Hillary Clinton, lying to the American people about her selfish, awful judgment in making our secrets vulnerable.Guilty or not guilty?

Chris Bosh

You can't worry about what people say, but... People always harp on athletes being selfish individualists.

David Seabury

No man will work for your interests unless they are his.

David Mitchell

I pass through many Me's in the course of my day, each one selfish with his time. The Lying-in-Bed me and the Enjoying-the-Hot-Shower Me are particularly selfish. The Late Me loathes the pair of them.

Cesar Romero

Because of my age and because there's more work on the small screen. What it's missing in quality it makes up for in quantity. From an actor's selfish point of view.

C. J. Mahaney

Individuals motivated by self-interest, self-indulgence, and a false sense of self-sufficiency pursue selfish ambition for the purpose of self-glorification.

Bill Walton

Never forget - happiness ends when selfishness begins.

Juvenal

Be, as many now are, luxurious to yourself, parsimonious to your friends. [Lat., Esto, ut nunc multi, dives tibi pauper amicis.]

Aristotle

Selfishness doesn't consist in a love to yourself, but in a big degree of such love.

C. S. Lewis

Selfishness has never been admired.

E. W. Howe

It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Albert Camus

I lived with the only continuity, day to day, of the me-me-me.

Anne Campbell

Aggression is the first step on the slippery slope to selfishness and chaos.

Dalai Lama

Along with selfishness, anger is one of the most serious problems facing the world today

David O. McKay

The basis of all sin is selfishness.

Gottfried Leibniz

I hold that it is only when we can prove everything we assert that we understand perfectly the thing under consideration.

Jeffrey Gitomer

Price is not a consideration when a personal relationship exists.

Judith Martin

Manners require showing consideration of all human beings, not just the ones to whom one is close.

John Wooden

Consideration for others brings many things.

William Gilmore Simms

The only true source of politeness is consideration.

Sai Baba

Whatever creature comes to you, human or otherwise, treat it with consideration.

Suzanne Collins

Thank you for you consideration