Quotes with selfishness

  • This laudable quality is commonly known by the name of Manners and Good-breeding, and consists in a Fashionable Habit, acquir'd by Precept and Example, of flattering the Pride and Selfishness of others, and concealing our own with Judgment and Dexterity.
  • 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,
  • The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

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  • Napoleon Hill Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Bill Hybels Prayer busters (causes of unanswered prayer) are prayerlessness, unconfessed sin, unresolved relational conflict, selfishness, uncaring attitudes, and inadequate faith.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Charles Lamb 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,
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Doug Horton Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.
    Doug Horton
    American Protestant clergyman
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  • Lord George Byron But as to women, who can penetrate the real sufferings of their she condition? Man's very sympathy with their estate has much of selfishness and more suspicion. Their love, their virtue, beauty, education, but form good housekeepers, to breed a nation.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Henry David Thoreau By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature but as a robber.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Woodrow Wilson Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Alice James 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
    American diarist (1848 - 1892)
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  • Edgar 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.
    Edgar W. Howe
    American journalist and writer (1853 - 1937)
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  • Lao-Tzu Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Benjamin Watson One of the biggest things we have to be able to do is to handle conflict and handle it correctly. We're able to look at our biases, look at our frustration, look at our sin in this area, our pride and our selfishness. It allows us to move forward.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Elizabeth Bowen Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.
    Elizabeth Bowen
    Anglo-Irish Novelist (1899 - 1973)
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  • Graham Greene Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.
    Graham Greene
    English writer (1904 - 1991)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness, when bequeathed by those who. When alive, would not have contributed.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Israel Zangwill Selfishness is the only real atheism; unselfishness the only real religion.
    Israel Zangwill
    British writer (1864 - 1926)
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  • Jane Austen Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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