Selfish Men Quotes

• Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Nature, Children

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.42, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• A selfish man is a thief.

  Jose Marti

  Selfish, Men, Thieves

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos". Book by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.

  Herbert Spencer

  Selfish, Men, Law

  Herbert Spencer (2016). “Social Statics: Great Essays”, p.14, VM eBooks

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• To love is to value. Only a rationally selfish man, a man of self esteem, is capable of love - because he is the only man capable of holding firm, consistent, uncompromising, unbetrayed value. The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone

  Ayn Rand

  Selfish, Self Esteem, Love Is

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.29, Penguin

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• The selfish man cuts away the sand from under his own feet, he digs his own grave; and every time, from the beginning of the world until now, God Almighty pushes him into the grave and covers him up.

  Charles Henry Fowler

  Selfish, Cutting, Men

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 537), 1895.

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• The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Selfish, Men, Suffering

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.181, Graphic Arts Books

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• The abortionist I worked for, he's a very greedy man, a selfish man.

  Norma McCorvey

  Selfish, Men, Greedy

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• Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not.

  Albert Einstein

  Change, Marriage, Valentines Day

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• Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life, shall ever prevail against us.

  William Wordsworth

  Life, Perseverance, Kindness

  William Wordsworth (2012). “William Wordsworth: Everyman's Poetry”, p.49, Hachette UK

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• We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Selfish, Men, Eagles

  The Four Freedoms, delivered 6 January, 1941 (photo of FDR in 1936)

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• No man is more cheated than the selfish man.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Cheating, Selfish, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1871). “The original Plymouth pulpit”, p.402

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• In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.

  David Mitchell

  Soul, Selfishness, Extinction

  "Cloud Atlas". "The Pacific Journal of Adam Ewing", p. 528. Book by David Mitchell, 2004.

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• A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.

  Richard Whately

  Selfish, Helping Others, Men

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• Three things I have longed to see ... The sea serpent, a white rhinoceros, and an unselfish man.

  Myrtle Reed

  Men, Sea, White

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• Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.

  William Cowper

  Inspirational, Selfish, War

  William Cowper (1845). “The Poetical Works of William Cowper”, p.1

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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.

  Integrity, Selfish, Creativity

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• Every selfish man, strangely enough, becomes a self slayer

  Sadhu Sundar Singh

  Good Morning, Selfish, Men

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• How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it.

  Adam Smith

  Happiness, Selfish, Men

  Adam Smith (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Adam Smith (Illustrated)”, p.19, Delphi Classics

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• ...Good leaders wait to be called and they give up their power when they are no longer needed. Selfish men and fools put themselves first and keep their power until someone throws them out. It is no good to have a way where selfish men and fools fight with each other to be leaders, while the good ones watch.

  Kent Nerburn

  Giving Up, Selfish, Fighting

  Kent Nerburn (2010). “Neither Wolf nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads with an Indian Elder”, p.204, New World Library

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• . . .this prayer I make, Knowing that Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 't is her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold Is full of blessings.

  William Wordsworth

  Nature, Kindness, Prayer

  William Wordsworth (1992). “Favorite Poems”, p.24, Courier Corporation

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• Money doesn't change men. It merely unmasks them.

  Henry Ford

  Men

  "It Would Be Fun To Start Over Again". The American Magazine, Volume 91, April 1921.

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• I am probably the most selfish man you will ever meet in your life. No one gets the satisfaction or the joy that I get out of seeing kids realize there is hope.

  Jerry Lewis

  Hope, Selfish, Kids

  "Emmy honors Jerry Lewis for charity work". www.today.com. September 12, 2005.

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• Actors - we're selfish, but we can't think about the work in that kind of selfish manner. I think that you have to step away from yourself, if you're going to do it. Otherwise don't do it; otherwise why do it?

  Charlize Theron

  Selfish, Thinking, Actors

  Source: www.aboutfilm.com

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• Do not cry for me, Azrael. Do not waste your tears. You made your decision. And this is mine. Sacrifice seems to be my destiny. A funny thing for a selfish man, isn't it? They always called me weak back then.

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Selfish, Sacrifice, Destiny

  Melissa de la Cruz (2010). “The Van Alen Legacy: Number 4 in series”, p.224, Hachette UK

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• The happiest is the man who is not at all selfish.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Selfish, Men, He Man

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.113, editionNEXT.com

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