selfishness quotes

• Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself. (Henry Ward Beecher) [selfishness/willpower]
• Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible. (Elizabeth Bowen) [pity/selfishness]
• Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness, when bequeathed by those who. when alive, would not have contributed. (Charles Caleb Colton) [essence/selfishness]
• The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [spirit/hatred/selfishness]
• Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love. (Nathaniel Hawthorne) [selfishness/love]
• Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness. (Napoleon Hill) [result/selfishness]
• As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision. (Helen Keller) [selfishness/mind/love/joy]
• Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires. ( Laozi) [embrace//selfishness/desires]
• Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires. ( Laozi) [embrace//selfishness/desires]
• By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature but as a robber. (Henry David Thoreau) [selfishness/habit/property/property]

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