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Selfishness Quotes

"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
Marilyn Monroe
"The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men"
Samuel L. Jackson
"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live"
Oscar Wilde
"Selfishness must always be forgiven, you know, because there is no hope of a cure"
Jane Austen
"For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community"
Joe Biden
"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.
"One of the purposes of life, and selfishly what makes people happy, is building things that are impactful"
Dustin Moskovitz
"It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all"
Democritus
"Man serves the interests of no creature except himself."
George Orwell
"The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea"
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"The culture of comfort, which makes us think only of ourselves, makes us insensitive to the cries of other people."
Pope Francis
"Selfish people are in a hurry to get happiness and do not pause to consider the happiness of others."
George Eliot
"The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish."
Pope John Paul II
"That which is selfish is immoral, and that which is unselfish is moral"
Swami Vivekananda
"To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness"
Gustave Flaubert
"A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle"
Benjamin Franklin
"Love will make you reckless. It can drag out parts of you that common sense and fear usually keep hidden away. Because love is selfless and selfish"
R.S. Grey
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