#selfishness

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

— Andre Maurois

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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

We can pay the ecological debt by changing economic models, and by giving up luxury consumption, setting aside selfishness and individualism, and thinking about the people and the planet Earth. ↗

— Evo Morales

#aside #changing #consumption #debt #earth

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#live #living #others #selfishness #wishes

Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race. ↗

— William E. Gladstone

#greatest #human #human race #race #selfishness

As a father now, I wouldn't do what my dad did, because it left me feeling emotionally unstable as a kid. But he didn't do the things he did out of selfishness or malice. ↗

— Anthony Kiedis

#dad #did #emotionally #father #feeling

A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action. ↗

— David Seabury

#anyone #best #course #discoverable #only

Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity. ↗

— William Howard Taft

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Selfish- a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice. ↗

— George Eliot

#sacrifice

It was because all we wanted was each other's constant love and attention and for no one else to receive that love and attention, which is a selfish and difficult place to be in a relationship. We were emotionally retarded, and that was the best we could do at the time. ↗

— Anthony Kiedis

#love #relationship #selfish-love #selfishness #love