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  • I am probably the most selfish man you will ever meet in your life. No one gets the satisfaction or the joy that I get out of seeing kids realize there is hope.

    Hope   Selfish   Kids  
    "Emmy honors Jerry Lewis for charity work". www.today.com. September 12, 2005.
  • Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life, shall ever prevail against us.

    William Wordsworth (2012). “William Wordsworth: Everyman's Poetry”, p.49, Hachette UK
  • To love is to value. Only a rationally selfish man, a man of self esteem, is capable of love - because he is the only man capable of holding firm, consistent, uncompromising, unbetrayed value. The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone

    Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.29, Penguin
  • How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it.

    Happiness   Selfish   Men  
    Adam Smith (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Adam Smith (Illustrated)”, p.19, Delphi Classics
  • The abortionist I worked for, he's a very greedy man, a selfish man.

    Selfish   Men   Greedy  
  • Selfish men were...trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights

    Selfish   Men   Rights  
  • We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests.

    Selfish   Men   Eagles  
    The Four Freedoms, delivered 6 January, 1941 (photo of FDR in 1936)
  • No man is more cheated than the selfish man.

    Cheating   Selfish   Men  
    Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1871). “The original Plymouth pulpit”, p.402
  • The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.

    Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.29, Penguin
  • Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish man. The devoted fail.

    Thomas Hardy (2016). “Jude the Obscure: Works of Hardy”, p.324, 谷月社
  • . . .this prayer I make, Knowing that Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 't is her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold Is full of blessings.

    William Wordsworth (1992). “Favorite Poems”, p.24, Courier Corporation
  • Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.

    Erich Fromm (2014). “The Erich Fromm Reader: Readings Selected and Edited by Rainer Funk”, p.105, Open Road Media
  • Neither fear nor self-interest can convert the soul. They may change the appearance, perhaps even the conduct, but never the object of supreme desire... Fear is the motive which constrains the slave; greed binds the selfish man, by which he is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed (James 1:14). But neither fear nor self-interest is undefiled, nor can they convert the soul. Only charity can convert the soul, freeing it from unworthy motives.

    Fear   Selfish   Men  
  • A selfish man is a thief.

    Selfish   Men   Thieves  
    "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos". Book by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.
  • The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.

    Selfish   Men   Suffering  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.181, Graphic Arts Books
  • Oh! If those selfish men, who are the cause of all one's misery, only knew what their poor slaves go through! What suffering, what humiliation to the delicate feelings of a poor woman, above all a young one, especially with those nasty doctors.

    Selfish   Men   Doctors  
  • Money doesn't change men. It merely unmasks them.

    "It Would Be Fun To Start Over Again". The American Magazine, Volume 91, April 1921.
  • There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiful, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself.

    Stupid   Selfish   Mean  
    "Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners". Book by William Hazlitt, 1821-1822.
  • Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.

    William Cowper (1845). “The Poetical Works of William Cowper”, p.1
  • A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.

  • What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.

    Selfish   Men   Law  
    Herbert Spencer (2016). “Social Statics: Great Essays”, p.14, VM eBooks
  • Every selfish man, strangely enough, becomes a self slayer

  • Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance.

    Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.42, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not.

  • The happiest is the man who is not at all selfish.

    Selfish   Men   He Man  
    Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Practical Vedanta Philosophy”, p.113, editionNEXT.com
  • Three things I have longed to see ... The sea serpent, a white rhinoceros, and an unselfish man.

    Men   Sea   White  
  • Actors - we're selfish, but we can't think about the work in that kind of selfish manner. I think that you have to step away from yourself, if you're going to do it. Otherwise don't do it; otherwise why do it?

    Source: www.aboutfilm.com
  • The selfish man cuts away the sand from under his own feet, he digs his own grave; and every time, from the beginning of the world until now, God Almighty pushes him into the grave and covers him up.

    Selfish   Cutting   Men  
    "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 537), 1895.
  • So I tell you, my son, that the secret of true happiness is for him who asks nothing in return. The perfectly unselfish man is the one who finds his glory in God. Give what you have to give, and it will come back to you. All materials to build thy home in this world or the inner cosmic worlds come from within, from the God center in thy heart.

    Heart   Home   Son  
  • Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

    Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”
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