Man Selfish Quotes
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In proportion as a man is selfish, so far has he receded from the motive which constitutes virtue.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
— Henry Ward Beecher
I dont feel like I would be a good mentor. I dont know what I have to offer in that respect. I do this for pretty selfish reasons.
— Ryan Gosling
The most altruistic man is the most selfish.
— Abraham Lincoln
He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed ...
— Jane Austen
The happiest is the man who is not at all selfish.
— Swami Vivekananda
Not by mere eloquence, nor by handsome appearance, does a man become good-natured, should he be jealous, selfish and deceitful.
— Gautama Buddha
Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome.
— George Santayana
A selfish basis would not serve the purpose of taking a man higher and higher along the paths of evolution.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The Man who works for others, without any selfish motive, really does good to himself.
— Ramakrishna
In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
A PRIME TRUTH - MAN IS SELFISH(Name of chapter) — William J. Federer
Now you see, Tom," said Mr. Harthouse ( ... ); "every man is selfish in everything he does, and I am exactly like the rest of my fellow-creatures.
— Charles Dickens
A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.
— Richard Whately
God, I wanted to be forgiven, but an apology offered to a dead man is only a selfish apology to yourself.
— Sherman Alexie
Man is an extremely complex creature: he usually acts in an unselfish manner for selfish reasons.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Human ties are the greatest distorters of reality because they tend to conceal man's worst selfish instincts.
— Janvier Chouteu-Chando
In that one glimpse of a better nature, born as it was in selfish thoughts, the rich man felt himself friendless, childless, and alone.
— Charles Dickens
Man is known to be a selfish, as well as a social being.
— James Madison
I'm a selfish, little pig of a man.
— Lewis Black
Man is essentially a selfish creature. The differences in the degree with which this developed are infinite.
— Samuel Freeman Miller
There is no man at once so unselfish and selfish as a man in love.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The abortionist I worked for, he's a very greedy man, a selfish man.
— Norma McCorvey
Love wasn't a selfish thing. It was the kindest, most generous impulse a man could have.
— Susan Wiggs
The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A selfish man is a thief.
— Jose Marti
The small share of happiness attainable by man exists only insofar as he is able to cease to think of himself.
— Theodor Reik
Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.
— George Bernard Shaw
All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent.
— Berthold Auerbach
But any man who walks in the way of power and property is bound to meet hate.
— Zora Neale Hurston
A man, if he be active and energetic, can hardly fail also, be he never so selfish, of benefiting the general public interest.
— Benjamin Butler
For purely selfish reasons, the old man had preserved what the rest of the world had destroyed.
— Nancy Farmer
The petty man wants to use God for himself; the ambitious man wants God to use him for God.
— Criss Jami
Suffering, he thought later, could rob a man of his empathy, could turn him selfish, could make him depreciate all other sufferers.
— Eleanor Catton
Every selfish man, strangely enough, becomes a self slayer
— Sadhu Sundar Singh
Each man seeks his own interest, not the general interest. Let his own selfish interests be touched, and all concord is at an end.
— Sabine Baring-Gould
What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
— Herbert Spencer