#selfish

People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#because #children #experience #get #get married

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

— Lord Byron

#i #more #motive #myself #others

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

— Charles Caleb Colton

#bequeathed #charities #essence #even #nothing

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

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#consistent #disguised #selfishness #sympathy #virtue

The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#begin #devoted #humane #intelligent #just

What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness. ↗

— Bernard Cornwell

#books #happiness #i #i see #life

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's. ↗

— Richard Whately

#called #his #man #neglecting #neighbor

I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#boss #i #looking #me #selfish

The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless. ↗

— Billy Graham

#consecrated #feet #form #greatest #helpless

I've gotten very good at detaching whenever I have to go away for three months, which I realize is hard on friends and kind of selfish. ↗

— Ashley Greene

#friends #go #go away #good #gotten