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This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural. Jessica Lange

Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.

Douglas Horton

It's easy to point out the evil in other people, but that can be found in all of us. That selfishness, that is something we all have in us. Sometimes you are successful at dealing with it, and sometimes you are not.

Jeff Bridges

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

Franz Kafka

This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.

Jessica Lange

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

Richard Bach

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

One of the biggest things we have to be able to do is to handle conflict and handle it correctly. We're able to look at our biases, look at our frustration, look at our sin in this area, our pride and our selfishness. It allows us to move forward.

Benjamin Watson

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

Joyce Meyer

Vice is Washington's signature. A fish rots from the head, and Washington has led our country into vice, greed, selfishness, and the mockery and destruction of human life.

Paul Craig Roberts

I am confident that nobody... will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.

Nelson Mandela

We might not object to the statement that Lear deserved to suffer for his folly, selfishness and tyranny; but to assert that he deserved to suffer what he did suffer is to do violence not merely to language but to any healthy moral sense.

Andrew Coyle Bradley

I like to think that my arrogance, impetuosity, impatience, selfishness and greed are the qualities that make me the lovable chap I am.

Richard Hammond

Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.

Henry Ward Beecher

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.

There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of, before I became President of the U.S.

James K. Polk

I was surprised by how much I like being a father; surprised at what a decent father I am, because I was afraid I wouldn't be able to dump my selfishness.

Michael Zaslow

Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice.

Elihu Root

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

Napoleon Hill

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

Jane Austen

Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.

Graham Greene

Let us reject violence and selfishness which could destroy our country's unity.

Mwai Kibaki

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

Lao Tzu

How sick one gets of being 'good', how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness.

Alice James

There are points in your life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary.

Kris Kristofferson

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

Honore de Balzac

I think for anyone who follows the 'artistic life,' a certain amount of selfishness and self-involvement is part of the package. You're probably already disregarding a certain material life you could have.

David Chase

There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.

John Gunther

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

Helen Keller

Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.

Woodrow Wilson

The organization and constant onward sweep of this movement exemplifies the resentment of the many toward the selfishness, greed and the neglect of the few.

John L. Lewis

Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.

Madame de Stael

Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.

Charles Caleb Colton

Yes, forget your weakness, whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism, it is selfishness after. all, for it is a dwelling on self. Forget your weakness; and remember your strength.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.

Henry Ward Beecher