#selfish

Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by. ↗

— Andre Maurois

#modesty #pass #praise #these #unselfishness

The rising sun can dispel the darkness of night, but it cannot banish the blackness of malice, hatred, bigotry, and selfishness from the hearts of humanity. ↗

— David O. McKay

#blackness #cannot #darkness #dispel #hatred

That's why charity work is very selfish at the same time, because it makes you feel good. ↗

— Maria Menounos

#charity #charity work #feel #feel good #good

Yet, while producing increasingly selfish people, the mantra of the Left, and therefore of the universities and the media, has been for generations that capitalism and the free market, not the welfare state, produces selfish people. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#capitalism #free #free market #generations #increasingly

I know that some of the spiritual beliefs that I have are that if I come from a place of love, and I try to get out of my ego and my desire to want more and be selfish in any shape or form, then whatever I'm doing is not good. ↗

— Amber Valletta

#beliefs #come #desire #doing #ego

Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion. ↗

— John Comenius

#consideration #end #humanity #language #let us

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

#conservative #engaged #exercises #justification #man

I'm just selfish. I have to be for what I do. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#i do #just #selfish

I've always been an unselfish guy, and that's the only way I know how to play on the court and I try to play to the maximum of my ability - not only for myself but for my teammates. ↗

— LeBron James

#always #been #court #guy #how

I've got to do something to make up for all those self-absorbed and selfish years when I just, you know, was taking drugs, sitting in my room, doing bad things, whatever. ↗

— Elton John

#doing #got #i #just #know