Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes, Selfish Quotes, Anatomy And Physiology Quotes

Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Selfish Quotes , Anatomy And Physiology Quotes

Nature may be as selfishly studied as trade. Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology; psychology, mesmerism (with intent to show where aour spoons are gone); and anatomy and physiology become phrenology and palmistry.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Nature Quotes , Selfish Quotes

When you win, you often lose, that's just a fact. There's no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Abraham Verghese Quotes , Selfish Quotes , Heart Quotes

We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Selfish Quotes , Trust No One Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Selfish Quotes , Principles Quotes

Not by mere eloquence, nor by handsome appearance, does a man become good-natured, should he be jealous, selfish and deceitful.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Buddhist Quotes , Selfish Quotes

This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Selfish Quotes , True Joy 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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Selfish Quotes

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

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Thicke Quotes , Sports Quotes , Selfish Quotes

The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Honore De Balzac Quotes , Love Quotes , Selfish Quotes

All our acts, reasoned and unreasoned, are selfish

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Selfish Quotes

Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Selfish Quotes , Work 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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

A selfish basis would not serve the purpose of taking a man higher and higher along the paths of evolution.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Selfish Quotes , Men Quotes

He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Selfish Quotes , Men Quotes

It is not selfish to be happy. It is your highest purpose. Your joy is the greatest contribution you can make to life on the planet. A heart at peace with its owner blesses everyone it touches.

6 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Alan Cohen Quotes , Selfish Quotes , Heart Quotes

The charlatan takes very different shapes according to circumstances; but at bottom he is a man who cares nothing about knowledge for its own sake, and only strives to gain the semblance of it that he may use it for his own personal ends, which are always selfish and material.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Selfish Quotes , Men Quotes

From the very beginning— from the first moment, I may almost say— of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Selfish Quotes , Men Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Selfish Quotes , Practice Quotes

Our object now, as then, is to vindicate the principles of peace and justice in the life of the world as against selfish and autocratic power, and to set up among the really free and self-governed peoples of the world such a concert of purpose and of action as will henceforth insure the observance of those principles.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Freedom Quotes , Selfish Quotes