I’ve been a scoundrel in my life. I’ve been selfish. I’ve been cruel at times, hard to work with, and I’m grateful that so many of you in this room have given me a second...

Her happiness is not my responsibility. She should be happy and I should be happy individually. Then we come together and share our happiness. Giving someone a responsibility to make you happy when you can’t...

Some selfish people rise because some kind people haven’t learned the art of saying no to them.

Religion is an ideology like the terrorism, Fascism and Nazism. It can be poisonous and dangerous, but still there are people who follow them selfishly.

Everyone loves himself, but loving others is the most daunting task. The main reason for any person to feel low in life or hurt, rejected and dejected is that he expects almost the same level...

The bedrock of corruption is the attitude of selfishness. Nations are ruined when politicians think for themselves first before thinking about anyone else!

You can share in my joy, but I don’t want to share my misery. No, I want to give away my misery. Go ahead, take it all.

Saturated Arrogance…she rebuked those about herin darkness did she dwella pathetic historyall mortal man would tell..

If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.

To be an end in myself is to bring an end to myself.

Don’t shave my head to make your wig of selfishness. Shave it because you care.

Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure’s sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because...

I want to show the world that you do have some artists that are ready to go to the next level, and instead of being selfish with their career they’ll open up the door to...

She also understood there was a hole in her heart where her son should be, that she was a wicked, selfish woman for wishing him back.

Selfishness is the biggest form of helplessness as it makes the person blind so much that he fails to search his true self for being always in the lurch

To believe in the truth of Christ is to be introduced to another form of hatred, and that is not sharing Him.

When you’re here, I’m there for you. And when you’re there, I’m here for you.

We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others.

what makes me human; is my mistakes and that i resemble humanbeings…,What makes me a Man is that i am selfish,powerful,minded and stubborn

Americans today confuse freedom with not being asked to sacrifice. The fact that you can’t have everything you want exactly when you want it has somehow become un-American.

Don’t try to hog loneliness and keep it all to yourself. Share it with a special someone.

Gain a person’s trust through numerous small acts of benevolence, so you can lose their trust in one large act of self-enrichment.

No knowledge, however thorough and extensive, no brilliance and perspicuity, no dialectic sophistication, will preserve us from the commmonness of thought and will. It is truly not the merit of the school if we do...

. . . In all parts of our globe, fanatics have cut each other’s throats, publicly burnt each other, committed without a scruple and even as a duty, the greatest crimes, and shed torrents of...

I think myself so terribly ‘clever’ that the need for God is blatantly irrelevant. And all the while, in the rapidly growing mess that I’m ‘cleverly’ creating, I rather quickly begin to realize that the...

I’ve always felt that Mimi was a doubly selfish name. It’s all about me, not you, Mimi.

People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. It’s very selfish, but it’s understandable.

Helpful is happy.Selfish is sad.(It’s not uncommon to confuse the two.)

…if I try to make only enough money for my family’ immediate needs, it may violate Scripture. …Even though earning just enough to meet the needs of my family may seem nonmaterialistic, it’s actually selfish...

In selfish men caution is as secure an armour for their foes as for themselves.

Simply minding one’s own business is more offensive than being intrusive. Without ever saying a word one can make a person feel less-than.

I felt we must separate political responsibility. The Dalai Lama should not carry that burden. So that is my selfish reason – to protect the old Dalai Lama tradition. It is safer without political involvement.

The problem is that without an understanding for their meaning and purpose, most relationships quickly become little more than vehicles for the pursuit of selfish and individual goals. Disagreements then become a battle between conflicting...

Part of the treasure in heaven that Jesus talks about is the feeling of purpose and satisfaction a person has when they know they are performing the will of God. Those who put themselves and...

You can’t succeed in any endeavor if your motive is solely selfish- feeding your ego, seeking recognition, fame, etc. Find a lasting motivation…

When you are happy for other people’s dreams, your dreams start jumping up with joy. Elizabeth was happy with Mary and her dream baby was jumping in her womb crazily for joy!

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

Miki-san… do you truly want that person’s dream to come true? Or is it that you want to be that person’s savior for making that dream come true? If you’re going to fulfill someone else’s...

Survival,” I said softly. “It’s selfish, and it’s dark, and we’ve always been a species willing to do anything to satisfy our needs. Individuals have morals. Mobs have appetites.

To be blessed and yet permit gluttony to blind me to the blessings is to banish myself to a life of unrelenting poverty even though I might be utterly engulfed in the embrace of a...

The first two letters of her name were M and E and I thought, Yes! Finally, a name I can relate to.

Choose altruism, because selfishism is a lonely, cold, dark hole.

Are we truly obeying the command to love our neighbor as ourselves if we’re storing up money for potential future needs when our neighbor is laboring today under actual present needs?

Mind may make business relationship; Heart does make personal relationship; Beautiful soul only makes sustainable and happy relationship. The choice is all ours.

When you’re appeasing too much, you might be egotistically over-estimating everyone’s need for your approval.

My hair would continue to gray, and then one day, it would fall out entirely, and then, on a day meaninglessly close to the present one, meaninglessly like the present one, I would disappear from...

In fact, the more each person can remove his or her ego from the discussion and focus on the subject matter, the more fruitful the conversation will be for all involved.

Because of the value placed on individual materialistic success in our society, we are surrounded by people primarily interested in getting something from others. Their attitudes are characterised by selfishness and a lack of empathy...

Human beings are more or less formulas. Pun intended. We are not any one thing that is mathematically provable. We are more or less than we are anything. We are more or less kind, or...

Leave the quarters of the close-fisted selfishness and live in the edifice of an open-handed generosity. God gives to you, so you can share when it’s required of you! Give out; conquer greed!