Selfish Quotes - Page 14

• Foolish, selfish people are always thinking of themselves and the result is always negative. Wise persons think of others, helping them as much as they can, and the result is happiness. Love and compassion are beneficial both for you and others. Through your kindness to others, your mind and heart will open to peace.

  Dalai Lama

  Wise, Kindness, Heart

  His Holiness the Dalai Lama (2006). “How to Expand Love: Widening the Circle of Loving Relationships”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• Cast down, O Lord, all the forces of cruelty and wrong. Defeat all selfish and worldly-minded schemes, and prosper all that is conceived among us in the spirit of Christ and carried out to the honour of His blessed name. Amen.

  John Baillie

  Blessed, Names, Spirit

  John Baillie (1952). “A diary of private prayer”, Scribner

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• It is not selfish or narcissistic to love yourself. It is your first and foremost responsibility.

  Alan Cohen

  Love You, Responsibility, Narcissistic

  Alan Cohen (2000). “Dare to Be Yourself”

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• Why should neurotic, selfish, immature people suddenly become angels when they fall in love ... ?

  Denis de Rougemont

  Falling In Love, Angel, People

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• Remember the people you address are selfish, as we all are. They care nothing about your interests or profit. They seek service for themselves

  Claude C. Hopkins

  People, Care, Addresses

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Claude C. Hopkins, John E. Kennedy, Albert D. Lasker “Scientific Advertising Origins”, Lulu.com

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• A great emotion is too selfish ; it takes into itself all the blood of the spirit, and the congestion leaves the hands too cold to write. Three sorts of emotion produce great poetry - strong but quick emotions, seized upon for art as soon as they have passed, but not before they have passed ; strong and deep emotions in their remembrance along time after ; and false emotions, that is to say, emotions felt in the intellect. Not insincerity, but a translated sincerity, is the basis of all art.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Strong, Art, Writing

  Fernando Pessoa (1988). “Always Astonished: Selected Prose”, p.53, City Lights Books

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• Be careful of selfish motives. You can mistake them for principles and end up dying for them.

  Robert Breault

  Integrity, Mistake, Dying

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• I am in love with girls that are bad and naughty and badass, and a little selfish, but I like to watch from a respectful distance!

  Dreama Walker

  Girl, Badass, Distance

  "Dreama Walker's Ultimate Middle School Revenge" by Justine Harman, www.elle.com. April 10, 2012.

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• My son's the most precious thing to me: He's changed me from being selfish to selfless.

  Ricardo Antonio Chavira

  Son, Selfless, Precious Things

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• There's no doubt about it: fun people are fun. But I finally learned that there is something more important, in the people you know, than whether they are fun. Thinking about those friends who had given me so much pleasure but who had also caused me so much pain, thinking about that bright, cruel world to which they'd introduced me, I saw that there's a better way to value people. Not as fun or not fun, or stylish or not stylish, but as warm or cold, generous or selfish. People who think about others and people who don't. People who know how to listen, and people who only know how to talk.

  William Deresiewicz

  Fun, Pain, Thinking

  William Deresiewicz (2011). “A Jane Austen Education: How Six Novels Taught Me About Love, Friendship, and the Things That Really Matter”, p.100, Penguin

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• It is important that when pursing our own self-interest we should be 'wise selfish' and not 'foolish selfish'. Being foolish selfish means pursuing our own interests in a narrow, shortsighted way. Being wise selfish means taking a broader view and recognizing that our own long-term individual interest lies in the welfare of everyone. Being wise selfish means being compassionate.

  Dalai Lama

  Wise, Lying, Mean

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• Humility is the essence of repentance. Humility is selfless, not selfish. It doesn't demand its own way or speak with moral superiority. Instead, humility answers softly and listens kindly for understanding, not vindication. Humility recognizes that no one can change someone else, but with faith, effort, and the help of God, we can undergo our own mighty change of heart.

  L. Whitney Clayton

  Humility, Heart, Essence

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• Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Compassion, Mammals, Arrogant

  Christopher Hitchens (2005). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.140, Basic Books

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• I don't know if it's ever OK for someone to be selfish. Perhaps there's a time and place to be self-centered, but I think selfish never wins the race.

  Jessica Capshaw

  Winning, Thinking, Race

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• Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change the environment for good or ill. But our genetic code still carries the selfish and aggressive instincts that were of survival advantage in the past. It will be difficult enough to avoid disaster in the next hundred years, let alone the next thousand or million. Our only chance of long term survival, is not to remain inward looking on planet Earth, but to spread out into space.

  Stephen Hawking

  Past, Years, Space

  "Abandon Earth - Or Face Extinction". bigthink.com.

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• I don't want to just be an athlete. I kind of obsess on that sometimes. I don't want my son to be reading, oh, 'disappointment, just a scorer, selfish, didn't win enough, never quite the best' -- whatever. I want to be bigger than that. I want to shape my own destiny instead of just having him read about whatever on the back page.

  Carmelo Anthony

  Disappointment, Reading, Athlete

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• Selfish is easy. It's sharing that takes courage.

  Simon Sinek

  Easy

  Twitter post from Aug 15, 2012

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• The [Oregon] Journal in its head and heart will stand for the people, be truly Democratic and free from political entanglements and machinations, believing in the principles that promise the greatest good to the greatest number-to ALL MEN, regardless of race, creed or previous condition of servitude... It will be a fair newspaper, not a dull and selfish sheet.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Believe, Heart, Men

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• Once the process [of conversion] is begun and continues...you are continually turning inward toward God and away from your own egocentricity...you have to see this selfish side of yourself in order to turn away from it. I measure God by everything I am not. I begin with that.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Faith, Order, Inward

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• People are so docile right now. It is almost as if good government means when the politicians lie to us for our own good, for the public good, and bad government is when politicians lie for their own selfish interests.

  James Bovard

  Lying, Mean, Government

  "Talkin' to America" with Aaron Zelman, jpfo.org.

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• That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised; but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and cruel people to the top, and then it all slides back into misery and ruin. In fact, the machine conks. It seems to start up all right and runs a few yards, and then it breaks down.

  C. S. Lewis

  Running, Keys, Government

  C. S. Lewis (1952). “Mere Christianity: a revised and enlarged edition, with a new introduction, of the three books, The case for Christianity, Christian behaviour, and Beyond personality”, Scribner Paper Fiction

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• We are all the time, from our childhood, trying to lay the blame upon something outside ourselves. We are always standing up to set right other people, and not ourselves. If we are miserable, we say, "Oh, the world is a devil's world." We curse others and say, "What infatuated fools!" But why should we be in such a world, if we really are so good? If this is a devil's world, we must be devils also; why else should we be here? "Oh, the people of the world are so selfish!" True enough; but why should we be found in that company, if we be better? Just think of that.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Thinking, People, Childhood

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.480, Manonmani Publishers

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• ... Grief is selfish. It is indulged in for self-gratification, not for love. Cosmic man knows the beauty and unreality of death. Sympathy for the afflicted makes a reality of the affliction by its recognition as an infliction, while sorrow for the loss of anything, or for the »unfortunate« condition of anybody, is forgetful of the beauty and abundance of all-giving God and Nature. The Mind of God knows but one unchanging emotion - ECSTASY - the ecstasy of Love - the ecstasy which has its beginnings in an inner joyousness of one who is far on the road to the discovery of his immortal Self.

  Walter Russell

  Grief, Loss, Reality

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• We've all met a certain type of spiritual person. She's a wonderful person. She loves the Lord. She prays and reads the Bible all the time. But all she thinks about is herself. She's not a selfish person. But she's always at the center of everything she's doing.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Spiritual, Thinking, Wonderful Person

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• Thinking it selfish to dwell on her own sufferings, when in the midst of wretches, who had not only lost all that endears life, but their very selves, her imagination was occupied with melancholy earnestness to trace the mazes of misery, through which so many wretches must have passed to this gloomy receptacle of disjointed souls, to the grand source of human corruption.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Thinking, Imagination, Soul

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2012). “Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman”, p.18, Courier Corporation

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