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• As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

  Helen Keller

  Night Vision, True Joy, Selfish People

  Helen Keller (2007). “My Religion”, p.170, Book Tree

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• How often, in this cold and bitter world, is the warm heart thrown back upon itself! Cold, careless, are we of another's grief; we wrap ourselves in sullen selfishness.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Grief, Heart, World

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1841). “Life and literary remains of L.E.L. [ed.] by L. Blanchard”

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• Do you know someone you would like to change and regulate and improve? Good! That is fine. I am all in favor of it, But why not begin on yourself? From a purely selfish standpoint, that is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others - yes, and a lot less dangerous.

  Dale Carnegie

  Motivational, Change, Selfish

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.20, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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  One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Relationship, Inspiring

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• Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Sad, Beautiful

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

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• Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Hope, Selfish

  1814 Mansfield Park, ch.7.

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• It's a disease. Nobody thinks or feels or cares any more; nobody gets excited or believes in anything except their own comfortable little God damn mediocrity.

  Richard Yates

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Richard Yates (2010). “Revolutionary Road”, p.60, Random House

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

  Jane Austen

  Selfish, Practice, Principles

  'Pride and Prejudice' (1813) ch. 58 (Mr Darcy)

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• The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.

  B. C. Forbes

  Army, Unhappiness, Humans

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• Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude itself is, in one sense, overcome.

  George Santayana

  Selfish, Men, Overcoming

  "Little Essays Drawn from the Writings of George Santayana".

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• It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Virtue, Difficult, Mankind

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• The greatest productive force is human selfishness.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Liberty, Libertarian, Economics

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.325, Penguin

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• If you think about yourself then you've lost sight of the ball.

  Mike Willesee

  Thinking, Sight, Balls

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• I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.

  Irvine Welsh

  Selfish, Trainspotting, Welsh

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• Yes, forget your weakness, whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism, it is selfishness after. all, for it is a dwelling on self. Forget your weakness; and remember your strength.

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot

  Self, Dwelling, House

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot (Bishop of Durham) (1890). “Ordination addresses and counsels to clergy”

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• I think it all comes back to being very selfish as an artist. I mean, I really do just write and record what interests me and I do approach the stage shows in much the same way.

  David Bowie

  Selfish, Writing, Mean

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• I was surprised by how much I like being a father; surprised at what a decent father I am, because I was afraid I wouldn't be able to dump my selfishness.

  Michael Zaslow

  Father, Able, Dump

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• Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error. The error is thinking that when someone stands in the way of our wants, we can justify getting that person out of our lives. Abortion and racism stem from the same poisonous root, selfishness.

  Alveda King

  Thinking, Errors, Roots

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• On a selfish basis, I really enjoy sports and activity.

  Alan Thicke

  Sports, Selfish, Enjoy

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• To one degree or another we all struggle with selfishness. Since it is so common, why worry about selfishness anyway? Because selfishness is really self-destruction in slow motion. No wonder the Prophet Joseph Smith urged, "Let every selfish feeling be not only buried, but annihilated" (Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 178). Hence annihilation - not moderation - is the destination! . . . Meekness is the real cure, for it does not merely mask selfishness but dissolves it!

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Selfish, Real, Struggle

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• Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.

  William Howard Taft

  New Day, Effort, Presidential

  William Howard Taft, William Taft “Popular Government: Its Essence, Its Permanence and Its Perils”, Transaction Publishers

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• My desire for the part of Mammy was not dominated by selfishness for Hollywood has been good to me and I am grateful

  Hattie McDaniel

  Grateful, Desire, Hollywood

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• How sick one gets of being "good," how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness.

  Alice James

  Sick, Twenties, Four

  Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”

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• The men who made the Industrial Revolution are usually pictured as hardfaced businessmen with no other motive than self-interest. That is certainly wrong. For one thing, many of them were inventors who had come into business that way.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Men, Self, Way

  Jacob Bronowski (1976). “The ascent of man”

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• I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in the hands of the most devoted worker in this cause. The example of great and pure characters is the only thing that can produce fine ideas and noble deeds. Money only appeals to selfishness and always tempts its owners irresistibly to abuse it

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Money, Selfish

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The World As I See It”, p.25, Open Road Media

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