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Selfishness

If we were not all so excessively interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
- Schopenhauer, Arthur
Selfishness Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Selfishness

1.
Know the Self as Lord of the chariot, the body as the chariot itself, the discriminating intellect as the charioteer, and the mind as the reins. The senses, say the wise, are the horses; selfish desires are the roads they travel.
Upanishad, Katha

2.
Selfishness, not love, is the actuating motive of the gallant.
Roland, Mme.

3.
As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
Keller, Helen

4.
Lovers never get tired of each other because they are forever talking about themselves.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

5.
Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself.
Cortazar, Julio

6.
He who is wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package.

7.
Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.
Horton, Doug

8.
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,
Lamb, Charles

9.
In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.
Muggeridge, Malcolm

10.
Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
Beecher, Henry Ward

11.
He who takes but never gives, may last for years but never lives.

12.
None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
Whichcote, Benjamin

13.
Just as a fire is covered by smoke and a mirror is obscured by dust, just as the embryo rests deep within the womb, wisdom is hidden by selfish desire.
Bhagavad Gita

14.
The force of selfishness is as inevitable and as calculable as the force of gravitation.
Hailliard

15.
If you think about yourself then you've lost sight of the ball.
Willesee, Mike

16.
Selfishness is the only real atheism; unselfishness the only real religion.
Zangwill, Israel

17.
I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes. I had one thousand and sixty.
Marcos, Imelda

18.
Glory built on selfish principles is shame and guilt.
William Cowper

19.
I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.
Levant, Oscar

20.
Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.
Thackeray, William M.

21.
If we were not all so excessively interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
Schopenhauer, Arthur

22.
No man will work for your interests unless they are his.
Seabury, David

23.
He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
Tertullian


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