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QUOTES including the word: "selfish"

Robert Scott:
  • The attitude of the men is equally worthy of admiration...there is a rush to be first when work is to be done, and the same desire to sacrifice selfish consideration to the success of the expedition...Fortune would be in a hard mood indeed if it allowed such a combination of knowledge, experience, ability, and enthusiasm to achieve nothing.

    • Adam Smith:
  • To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.

    • Flaubert:
  • To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

    • Jose Rizal:
  • Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame.

    • Sartre:
  • It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

    • Erich Fromm:
  • Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.

    • Tennessee Williams:
  • When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

    • Stendhal:
  • Our true passions are selfish.

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