Selfishness Quotes

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

I was surprised by how much I like being a father; surprised at what a decent father I am, because I was afraid I wouldn't be able to dump my selfishness.

As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed and selfishness prevent that and there is always one bad apple in every barrel.

This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.

Yes, forget your weakness, whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism, it is selfishness after. all, for it is a dwelling on self. Forget your weakness; and remember your strength.

The organization and constant onward sweep of this movement exemplifies the resentment of the many toward the selfishness, greed and the neglect of the few.

Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.

The rising sun can dispel the darkness of night, but it cannot banish the blackness of malice, hatred, bigotry, and selfishness from the hearts of humanity.

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

Selfishness is the only real atheism; unselfishness the only real religion.

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.

Let us reject violence and selfishness which could destroy our country's unity.

Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.

Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.

To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.

Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.

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.

Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.

My desire for the part of Mammy was not dominated by selfishness for Hollywood has been good to me and I am grateful.

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

Undoubtedly there are, in connection with each of these things, cases of fraud, swindling, and other financial crimes; that is to say, the greed and selfishness of men are perpetual.

I am confident that nobody... will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.

There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of, before I became President of the U.S.

We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that he deserved to suffer what he did suffer is to do violence not merely to language but to any healthy moral sense.

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.

Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice.