#selfish

Inspiration is incompatible with selfish desire. Whoever wants something for himself sets truth aside. Such aims can only degrade work. ↗

— A. G. Sertilanges

#inspirational

Though my work may be menial, though my contribution may be small, I can perform it with dignity and offer it with unselfishness. My talents may not be great, but I can use them to bless the lives of others.... The goodness of the world in which we live is the accumulated goodness of many small and seemingly inconsequential acts. ↗

— Gordon B. Hinckley

#service #unselfishness #inspirational

I am a very selfish person. ↗

— Lara Flynn Boyle

#i #i am #person #selfish #very

It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That's why we're here, after all, to help others. ↗

— Carol Burnett

#after #also #because #been #feel

I am a greedy, selfish bastard. I want the fact that I existed to mean something. ↗

— Harry Chapin

#existed #fact #greedy #i #i am

Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express. ↗

— George A. Smith

#deeds #evil #express #figure #habit

If I was your mirror, you would look for me more, than you do me. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#empty #idle #importance #selfish #stuck-up

Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#inspire #love #qualities #selfishness

I refuse to be crude and selfish in any way. ↗

— DeForest Kelley

#crude #i #refuse #selfish #way

The subsistence mentality of a person is a prison in which his personal joy is detained. If you want to live in joy, you don't live for yourself alone. Live for others too! ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#detain #egoism #food-for-thought #generous #happiness