Quotes about selfish
selfish grief loss
... Grief is selfish. It is indulged in for self-gratification, not for love. Cosmic man knows the beauty and unreality of death. Sympathy for the afflicted makes a reality of the affliction by its recognition as an infliction, while sorrow for the loss of anything, or for the »unfortunate« condition of anybody, is forgetful of the beauty and abundance of all-giving God and Nature. The Mind of God knows but one unchanging emotion - ECSTASY - the ecstasy of Love - the ecstasy which has its beginnings in an inner joyousness of one who is far on the road to the discovery of his immortal Self. Walter Russell
selfish war government
War, and more wars, are helping Government to siphon the earnings of its people into its treasury for its own selfish purpose, which is to rule the people for the Government instead of for the purpose of serving the people. When will the people see that the very taxes they pay are building a power to be used against them?
selfishness causes world
Sordid selfishness doth contract and narrow our benevolence, and cause us, like serpents, to infold ourselves within ourselves, and to turn out our stings to the entire world besides. Walter Scott
selfish ambition class
Love makes money-grabbing seem contemptible; love makes class prejudice impossible; love makes selfish ambition a thing to be despised; love converts enemies into friends. William Jennings Bryan
selfish common interest
Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.
selfish character men
If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig. Woodrow Wilson
selfish sacrifice political
The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no dominion. We seek no indemnities for ourselves, no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make.
selfishness agents confidential
Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
selfish suffering add
God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness and wake us up to the presence of others in this world, and that mechanism is called suffering. William Nicholson
selfish here-i-am people
Here I am going to say something which may come as a bit of a shock. God doesn't necessarily want us to be happy. He wants us to be lovable. Worthy of love. Able to be loved by Him. We don't start off being all that lovable, if we're honest. What makes people hard to love? Isn't it what is commonly called selfishness? Selfish people are hard to love because so little love comes out of them.
selfish way
You do have to be fairly selfish when you have a gift. You cannot afford to let too many outside things get in the way Sarah Brightman
selfish insecure scared
We're connected, as women. It's like a spiderweb. If one part of that web vibrates, if there's trouble, we all know it, but most of the time we're just too scared, or selfish, or insecure to help. But if we don't help each other, who will? Sarah Addison Allen
selfish sleep creative
Deliberately seeking solitude-quality time spent away from family and friends-may seem selfish. It is not. Solitude is as necessary for our creative spirits to develop and flourish as are sleep and food for our bodies to survive. Sarah Ban Breathnach
selfish progress decay
National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice. Samuel Smiles
selfish blow thinking
When the switch fell I could feel it upon my flesh; when it welted and ridged it was my blood that ran, and I would think with each blow of the switch: Now you are aware of me! Now I am something in your secret and selfish life, who have marked your blood with my own for ever and ever. William Faulkner
selfish educational today
The education system today makes and educated person selfish. It makes that person a slave to the senses and as a consequence the person forgets their own divine nature. Sai Baba
selfish artist
An artist must be ruthlessly selfish. W. Eugene Smith
selfishness social social-good
No universal selfishness can bring social good to all, W. E. B. Du Bois
selfish purpose watches
So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish, shrewd plodders, full of distrust and sneers.
selfish
I am very selfish, really. I lived for love. Zadie Smith
selfish want environment
We're a part of nature. As we destroy nature, we destroy ourselves. It's a selfish thing to want to protect nature. Yvon Chouinard
selfish race curse
Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race. William E. Gladstone
selfish fool loose-women
I prefer a loose woman to a selfish one and a wanton to a fool. W. Somerset Maugham
selfish men suffering-of-others
I knew that suffering did not enoble; it degraded. It made men selfish, petty and suspicious. It absorbed them in small things...it made them less than men; and I wrote ferociously that we learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.
selfish empathy survival
When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival. Yann Martel
selfish selfishness next
Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish. William Makepeace Thackeray