Lord Byron Quotes, Country Quotes, Selfish Quotes

Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world.

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It is not selfish or narcissistic to love yourself. It is your first and foremost responsibility.

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Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.

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How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it.

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Tags : Adam Smith Quotes , Happiness Quotes , Selfish Quotes

The modern city is ugly not because it is a city but because it is not enough of a city, because it is a jungle, because it is confused and anarchic, and surging with selfish and materialistic energies.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Selfish Quotes , Confused Quotes

You are the patient one, Mademoiselle,' said Poirot to Miss Debenham. She shrugged her shoulders slightly. 'What else can one do?' You are a philosopher, Mademoiselle.' That implies a detached attitude. I think my attitude is more selfish. I have learned to save myself useless emotion.

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At present, man applies to nature but half his force. He works on the world with his understanding alone. He lives in it, and masters it by a penny-wisdom; and he that works most in it, is but a half-man, and whilst his arms are strong and his digestion good, his mind is imbruted, and he is a selfish savage.

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Since all motives at bottom are selfish and ignoble, we may judge acts and qualities only be their effects.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Selfish Quotes , Judging Quotes

Notwithstanding his very liberal laudation of himself, however, the Major was selfish. It may be doubted whether there ever was a more entirely selfish person at heart; or at stomach is perhaps a better expression, seeing that he was more decidedly endowed with that latter organ than with the former.

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It's enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back.

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A love to Christ which is so cowardly and selfish that it is unwilling to proclaim by a public confession its faith in Him who hung before all the world crucified for sinners, is a love which is hardly worth the name.

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Tags : Abbott Eliot Kittredge Quotes , Selfish Quotes , Names Quotes

Everyone thinks I'm showing off when I talk, ridiculous when I'm silent, insolent when I answer, cunning when I have a good idea, lazy when I'm tired, selfish when I eat one bite more than I should.

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Tags : Anne Frank Quotes , Selfish Quotes , Tired Quotes

Furthermore, what profit was it to me that I, rascally slave of selfish ambitions that I was, read and understood by myself as many books as I could get concerning the so-called liberal arts?...I had turned my back to the light and my face to the things it illuminated, and so no light played upon my own face, or on the eyes that perceived them.

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When faith replaces doubt, when selfless service eliminates selfish striving, the power of God brings to pass His purposes.

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The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade.

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All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Selfish Quotes , People Quotes

Journalism should never be prostituted for selfish ends or for the sake of merely earning a livelihood or, worse still, for amassing money.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Selfish Quotes , Sake Quotes

If one's cause is supported by sound reasoning, there is no point in using violence. It is those who have no motive other than selfish desire and who cannot achieve their goal through logical reasoning who rely on force.

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Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Selfish Quotes , Logical Reasoning Quotes

If you will think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself. Character is a by-product, and any man who devotes himself to its cultivation in his own case will become a selfish prig.

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Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Selfish Quotes

The men who carry their points do not need to inquire of their constituents what they should say, but are themselves the country which they represent: nowhere are its emotions or opinions so instant and so true as in them; nowhere so pure from a selfish infusion.

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