Quotes about Selfishness

"Well, I know they've always told you/Selfishness was wrong/Yet it was for me, not you, I came to write this song/."
-Neil Peart

"Glory built on selfish principles is shame and guilt."
-William Cowper

"Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it."
-Louis Kronenberger

"Live for yourself -- there's no one elseMore worth living forBegging hands and bleeding hearts will only cry out for more."
-Neil Peart

"Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race."
-William E. Gladstone

"Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires."
-Lao tzu

"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live."
-Oscar Wilde

"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live."
-Oscar Wilde

"People, who rise above their petty individual selfishness and work for the welfare of society are considered patriots."
-Sam Veda

"The principle of liberty and equality, if coupled with mere selfishness, will make men only devils, each trying to be independent that he may fight only for his own interest. And here is the need of religion and its power, to bring in the principle of benevolence and love to men."
-John Randolph

"The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others."
-B. C. Forbes

"Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation."
-John Stuart Mill

"SELFISH, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others."
-Ambrose Bierce

"And sometimes it's the very otherness of a stranger, someone who doesn't belong to our ethnic or ideological or religious group, an otherness that can repel us initially, but which can jerk us out of our habitual selfishness, and give us intonations of that sacred otherness, which is God."
-Karen Armstrong

"Enlightened leadership is service, not selfishness."
-John Heider

"There was no selfishness. You'd have Robin Ventura oh-for-four with three K's coming in in the eighth inning saying, 'Come on, boys, don't wait for me to carry you.' Just things like that where when he said that, you knew things were OK."
-Joe Mcewing

"If one of our kids was having a bad night, somebody else picked us up. It didn't seem to matter who scored the most points. There was no selfishness or anything that really bothered any of the kids."
-Jim Hogan

"There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through."
-John Gunther

"We knew coming into (the season) we had a chance. The kids really turned it on in January and we didn't have the individualism or the selfishness. We got great leadership from our seniors."
-Brandon Day

"Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it."
-Doug Horton

"Nichole has one goal in life, as far as basketball, and that is to help her team win. She has no selfishness about her. Really whatever we emphasize in a game, she really tries to do."
-Jane Albright

"They work together extremely well. There's no selfishness there. They pass the puck, cycle the puck ... they're always looking more to make the pass than score the goal."
-Allen Beam

"How sick one gets of being ''good,'' how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness."
-Alice James

"The greatest barrier to peace in our world today is greed and selfishness in the human heart. Individual greed opens the way to national greed. This leads to divisiveness and conflict among people and nations. Tragically, this has caused so much bloodshed and needless human suffering."
-Sun Myung Moon

"I made a mistake and I'm grateful for the second chance. I'm humbled about what I did. Selfishness and ambition played a large role in what I did."
-Dave Bliss

"I have an edge for selfishness to win, no matter what game it is. But this one, the way things have gone, I want to finish with a bang."
-Andrew Patterson

"By walking with and living in a group they will be able to shake off their laziness and selfishness."
-Xu Xiangyang

"It was no big deal, just another point. But it was cool scoring that many points and much more fun than a tight game. Our power play is really moving the puck well, and there's no selfishness."
-Torrie Wheat