George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Selfish Quotes, Work Quotes

I am giving you examples of the fact that this creature man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero. . . . I tell you, gentlemen, if you can shew a man a piece of what he now calls God's work to do, and what he will later call by many new names, you can make him entirely reckless of the consequences to himself personally.

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We must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering.

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All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair.

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In proportion as a man is selfish, so far has he receded from the motive which constitutes virtue.

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The soul of me is very selfish. I have gone my way after a fashion that made me the center of the plan. And you who are so individual, who are so independent a spirit, whose soul is also a kingdom, have been so loyal, so forgiving, so self-sacrificing in your willingness to live my life. Nothing but love cold have accomplished so wonderful a thing.

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To be selfish, greedy and unwilling to help the needy gives rise to future starvation and clothlessness.

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Humiliation and mental oppression by ignorant and selfish teachers wreak havoc in the youthful mind that can never be undone and often exert a baleful influence in later life.

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

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The good Watson had at that time deserted me for a wife, the only selfish action I can recall in our association. I was alone.

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Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for selfish motives

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

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I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!

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The Bible says somewhere that we are desperately selfish. I think we would have discovered that fact without the Bible.

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I find that the moment I let a woman make friends with me, she becomes jealous, exacting, suspicious, and a damned nuisance. I find that the moment I let myself make friends with a woman, I become selfish and tyrannical.

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Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.

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Pride can go without domestics, without fine clothes, can live in a house with two rooms, can eat potato, purslain, beans, lyed corn, can work on the soil, can travel afoot, can talk with poor men, or sit silent well contented with fine saloons. But vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last; a long way leading nowhere.--Only one drawback; proud people are intolerably selfish, and the vain are gentle and giving.

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Selfish people are in a way terribly capable of great loves.

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Apart from selfish reasons, such as fear of punishments, fear of blame, of dishonour, etc, there remains only two motives that can stop (or prevent, "empâecher", Fr.) men from acting badly; the natural sense of commiseration (or "sympathy", - "commisération", Fr.) for one's fellow men - compassion, and the influence of education, by association of ideas ("par l'association d'idées", Fr.) - habit.

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

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People talk of the courage of convictions, but in actual life a man's duty to his family may make a rigid course seem a selfish indulgence of his own righteousness.

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