Dalai Lama Quotes, Kindness Quotes, Selfish Quotes

The simple recognition that everyone else wants to be happy and not to suffer, just as I do, serves as a constant reminder against selfishness and partiality. It reminds us there is little to be gained from being kind and generous while hoping to win something in return. Actions motivated by a desire to earn a good name for ourselves are still selfish, even if they appear to be acts of kindness.

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

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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Tags : Emily Bronte Quotes , Running Quotes , Selfish Quotes

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

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Artists are the worst [people]. They are selfish, self-centred; they don't care what happens.

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Tags : Ai Weiwei Quotes , Selfish Quotes , Artist Quotes

Good travels at a snail's pace. Those who want to do good are not selfish, they are not in a hurry, they know that to impregnate people with good requires a long time.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Selfish Quotes , Long Quotes

I think in the old music, everything was so competitive. It was all about - very selfish in a lot of ways. The label sort of capitalized on that desperation and that competition. In the new music landscape, with is the democratization of the internet and music in general, I think it can be a lot more collaborative. People, instead of competing, they can actually support each other, in music.

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Tags : Adrian Grenier Quotes , Selfish Quotes , Thinking Quotes

Unconditional love. That’s what he wants to give her and what he wants from her. People should give without wanting anything in return. All other giving is selfish. But he is being selfish a little, isn’t he, by wanting her to love him in return? He hopes that she loves him in return. Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back? Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like oceans and clouds, an evaporating of seawater and a replenishing of rain?

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

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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Tags : Abbas Kiarostami Quotes , Selfish Quotes , Mean Quotes

Capricious, wanton, bold, and brutal Lust Is meanly selfish; when resisted, cruel; And, like the blast of Pestilential Winds, Taints the sweet bloom of Nature's fairest forms.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Sweet Quotes , Selfish Quotes

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

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Those who oppose all reform will do well to remember that ruin in its worst form is inevitable if our national life brings us nothing better than swollen fortunes for the few and the triumph in both politics and business of a sordid and selfish materialism.

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Tags : Theodore Roosevelt Quotes , Business Quotes , Selfish Quotes

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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So plain that no one, high or low, ever does mistake it, except in a plainly selfish way; for although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself.

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

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Word it as softly as you please, the spirit of patriotism is the spirit of the dog and wolf. The moment there is a misunderstanding about a boundary line or a hamper of fish or some other squalid matter, see patriotism rise, and hear him split the universe with is war-whoop. The spirit of patriotism being in its nature jealous and selfish, is just in man's line, it comes natural to him - he can live up to all its requirements to the letter; but the spirit of Christianity is not in its entirety possible to him.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Dog Quotes , Selfish Quotes

Customs are generally unselfish. Habits are nearly always selfish.

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

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