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Quotes about Selfishness

7 quotes about selfishness, from Lord Byron, Herbert Spencer, Oscar Wilde and others.

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Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important.
T.S. Eliot
When you center life around yourself, not only do you miss out on God's best, but you rob other people of the joy and blessings that God wants to give them through you.
Joel Osteen
We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.
Lord Byron
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Oscar Wilde

Most quoted on selfishness

  • Lord Byron1
  • Herbert Spencer1
  • Oscar Wilde1
  • T.S. Eliot1
  • Joel Osteen1
  • Gustave Flaubert1
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.
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
Gustave Flaubert
A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.
Herbert Spencer

See also

Where selfishness leads

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  • Trust 157 quotes
  • Motives 2 quotes
  • Empathy 88 quotes
  • Morality 152 quotes
  • Autonomy 34 quotes
  • Expectation 22 quotes
  • Harm 7 quotes
  • Importance 51 quotes
  • Joy 102 quotes

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