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Quotes and Sayings About selfishness
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
Human
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You should remember that we need to consciously and constantly look for opportunities to increase the human happiness. Selfishness kills happiness.
B. C. Forbes
Need
Look
Human
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Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Creative
Darkness
Man
Destructive
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We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
Booker T. Washington
Rise
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Cloud
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Marriage is one of the most humbling, sanctifying journeys you will ever be a part of. It forces us to wrestle with our selfishness and pride. But it also gives us a platform to display love and commitment.
Francis Chan
Marriage
Most
Humbling
Sanctifying
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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.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Accept
Accordingly
Another
Distrust
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To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
Adam Smith
Affections
Benevolent
Constitute
Exercise
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Oscar Wilde
Asking
Live
Living
Others
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As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
Helen Keller
Clears
Complaint
Joy
Love
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Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
Napoleon Hill
Achievement
Born
Great
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If there were more temple work done in the Church, there would be less of selfishness, less of contention, less of demeaning others.
Gordon B. Hinckley
Church
Contention
Demeaning
Done
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There is a passion and drive for cruel deeds which only the awe and fear of God can soothe; there is a suffocating selfishness in man which only holiness can ventilate.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Fear
God
Cruel
Deeds
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If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
Cesare Pavese
Far
Fast
Fears
Light
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Apt
Inspire
Love
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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.
Nelson Mandela
Accuse
Also
Am
Ask
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There are points in your life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary.
Kris Kristofferson
Ambition
Creative
Life
Necessary
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Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect
George Sand
Nothing resembles
Selfishness
Self respect
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It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures.
Robert Greene
Consumption
Goals
Heights
Pleasure
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Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
Henry Ward Beecher
Selfishness
Detestable vice
Forgive
Others
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There is a deep—and usually frustrated—desire in the heart of everyone to act with benevolence rather than selfishness, and one fine instance of generosity can inspire dozens more.
Xenophon
A deep
Frustrated
Benevolence
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Selfishness can be a virtue. Selfishness is essential to survival, and without survival we cannot protect those whom we love more than ourselves.
Duke Ellington
Selfishness
A virtue
Is essential
To survival
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Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.
Sri Aurobindo
Actual enemy
Force exterior
Crying weakness
Our cowardice
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Just because of the greed and selfishness of the ruling elite,our time-tested values of hard work, honesty, integrity and unity are being debased.
Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo
The greed
Selfishness
Ruling elite
Time tested
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Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
Stendhal
Faith
Fool
Selfishness
Life
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Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.
William Ewart Gladstone
Selfishness
Greatest
Curse
Human race
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Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our good qualities, and to overlook or extenuate our defects.
William Wilberforce
Selfishness
Human nature
Good qualities
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The problem of under-development is often selfishness and small-mindedness, that is people who severely lack vision.
Efosa Ojomo
The problem
Under-development
Often selfishness
Small-mindedness
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Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
Woodrow Wilson
Caution
Confidential
Selfishness
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The greatest comforts and lasting peace are obtained, when one eradicates selfishness from within.
Guru Gobind Singh
Greatest
Comfort
Peace
Selfishness
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Service makes relationships refreshing. Selfishness makes relationships depressing.
Godman Akinlabi
Service makes
Relationship refreshing
Selfishness
Depressing
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I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment.
John Fowles
Fight
Selfishness
Brutality
Shame
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