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• The act of love . . . is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself.

  Albert Camus

  Love, Vanity, Generosity

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.65, Vintage

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• We are all making a crown for Jesus out of these daily lives of ours, either a crown of golden, divine love, studded with gems of sacrifice and adoration, or a thorny crown, filled with the cruel briars of unbelief, or selfishness, and sin.

  Aimee Semple McPherson

  Jesus, Sacrifice, Crowns

  Aimee Semple McPherson (2009). “This is That: Personal Experiences Sermons and Writings of Aimee Semple McPherson”, p.573, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• It is selfishness which is the cause of most of our misery.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Selfishness, Causes, Misery

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• A narcissist society, in which each person is busy looking out for number one, can build neither brotherhood nor community. Aren't we glad in this Easter season and in all seasons that Jesus did not selfishly look out for number one? No wonder we have been told, 'Thou shalt have no other gods
  before me,' and this includes self-worship! (Ex. 20:3; emphasis added). One way or another, the grossly selfish will finally be shattered, whimpering, against the jagged, concrete consequences of their selfishness.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Jesus, Easter, Numbers

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• Satan had two conditions [to his plan]: the first was the denial of agency, and the second, that he would have the honor. In other words, something had to be in it for him. And thus he became the father of lies and selfishness. Taking up one's cross and following the Savior means overcoming selfishness; it is a commitment to serve others. Selfishness is one of the baser human traits, which must be subdued and overcome. We torture our souls when we focus on getting rather than giving.

  James E. Faust

  Lying, Father, Mean

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• The only society that works today is also one founded on mutual respect, on a recognition that we have a responsibility collectively and individually, to help each other on the basis of each other's equal worth. A selfish society is a contradiction in terms.

  Tony Blair

  Responsibility, Today, Recognition

  Tony Blair's speech to Faithworks, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2005.

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• Under private property, each tries to establish over the other an alien power, so as thereby to find satisfaction of his own selfish need. The increase in the quantity of objects is therefore accompanied by an extension of the realm of the alien powers to which man is subjected, and every new product represents a new potentiality of mutual swindling and mutual plundering.

  Karl Marx

  Power, Men, Trying

  Karl Marx (2012). “Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844”, p.115, Courier Corporation

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• No man will work for your interests unless they are his.

  David Seabury

  Inspirational, Men, Interest

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

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Exercise, Earth, Retrospect

  Malcolm Muggeridge (1978). “A twentieth century testimony”, Thomas Nelson Publishers

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• Everywhere I've been, I've been the best player. I love being a leader, and I love being the best. I just want to get better. It's not about being cocky or selfish or anything like that. It's just how I am.

  LeBron James

  Inspirational, Basketball, Cocky

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• If I had children, I would be very selfish. I wouldn't be out doing things. But by not having kids, it makes me freer to travel the world and talk about things I feel are important.

  Linda Blair

  Travel, Children, Kids

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• Everybody wants to talk about NBA players being selfish and arrogant and individuals. But what you saw today was a team bonding and facing adversity and coming out with a big win.

  Kobe Bryant

  Basketball, Team, Adversity

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• Sometimes the coaches tell me to be selfish, but my game won't let me be selfish.

  LeBron James

  Basketball, Games, Sometimes

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• A lot of people were saying that I was a selfish person and a selfish player. You know, it got to me.

  LeBron James

  Basketball, Player, People

  "LeBron James Leads Miami Heat To NBA Title". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne and Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. June 22, 2012.

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• Basketball can serve as a kind of metaphor for ultimate cooperation. It is a sport where success, as symbolized by the championship, requires that the dictates of community prevail over selfish impulses.

  Bill Bradley

  Basketball, Sports, Nba

  Bill Bradley (2010). “Life on the Run”, p.75, RosettaBooks

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• Pat has been instrumental in what we've done here so far and the most selfish thing for me is that I want to see what we've done placed in the hands of the most competent person, and that's Pat. No one would come close to being able to continue to build on what we've done here so far like he will.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Hands, Done

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• We don't have selfish guys here, which sometimes leads to problems.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Guy, Problem

  "Chat Transcript: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar". www.nba.com.

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• When you go out there and do the things you're supposed to do, people view you as selfish.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Basketball, Views, People

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• What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic and acute, cold and heat and famine. They are intoxication, drunken brutality, demoralization and disorder on the part of the inferior... jealousies, meanness, indifference, selfish brutality on the part of the superior.

  Florence Nightingale

  War, Nursing, Blood

  Florence Nightingale (2001). “The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”

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• The truth of the matter is, we all come to prayer with a tangled mass of motives altruistic and selfish, merciful and hateful, loving and bitter. Frankly, this side of eternity we will never unravel the good from the bad, the pure from the impure. God is big enough to receive us with all our mixture.

  Richard J. Foster

  Prayer, Tangled, Sides

  Richard J. Foster (2009). “Prayer - 10th Anniversary Edition: Finding the Heart's True Home”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• We receive mixed messages about taking good care of ourselves. Love thy neighbor as thyself means to love thyself and thy neighbor. Yet, self-love often is confused with selfishness and conceit. We are selfish when we do not love and accept ourselves, and attempt to take from others to fill the emptiness. Conceit indicates low self-worth and an attempt to conceal it. It is difficult to extend to others what you have not been able to give yourself. Take good care of yourself so you can care about the rest of us.

  Jennifer James

  Confused, Love You, Mean

  Jennifer James (1986). “Success Is the Quality of Your Journey”, William Morrow Paperbacks

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• If you're not selfish enough to want to feel good, then you can't connect with the energy that is your Source which does always feel good.

  Esther Hicks

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Self Esteem

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• A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.

  Oscar Wilde

  Flower, Garden, Rose

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.64, Oscar Wilde

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• ...if the citizens neglect their Duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made, not for the public good so much as for selfish or local purposes; corrupt or incompetent men will be appointed to execute the Laws; the public revenues will be squandered on unworthy men; and the rights of the citizen will be violated or disregarded.

  Noah Webster

  Men, Rights, Law

  Noah Webster (1835). “Instructive and Entertaining Lessons for Youth: With Rules for Reading with Propriety, Illustrated by Examples: Designed for Use in Schools and Families”, p.230

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• If workers struggle for higher wages, this is hailed as "social gains", if businessmen struggle for higher profits, this is damned as "selfish greed".

  Ayn Rand

  Struggle, Greed, Liberty

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.42, Penguin

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