Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Szasz

It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish.

Tanith Lee

It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself.

Sidney Poitier

Marriage is no way of life for the weak, the selfish, or the insecure.

Michael Fox

Man is the most dangerous, destructive, selfish, and unethical animal on earth.

Laura Lippman

stinginess seemed instinctive to him. Darwinian even. He hadn't gotten to his current size by sharing.

Lisa Kleypas

Only you could love such a vile, selfish peacock, Evie.

John Updike

The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.

Mortimer Adler

We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others.

Mason Cooley

Charity does not like arithmetic; selfishness worships it.

Jason Calacanis

You have to have a big vision and take very small steps to get there. You have to be humble as you execute but visionary and gigantic in terms of your aspiration. In the Internet industry, it's not about grand innovation, it's about a lot of little innovations: every day, every week, every month, making something a little bit better.

Dwight L. Moody

The law stops every man's mouth. God will have a man humble himself down on his face before Him, with not a word to say for himself. Then God will speak to him, when he owns that he is a sinner, and gets rid of all his own righteousness.

Annie Proulx

No wonder, he thought, that the panhandle people were a godly lot, for they lived in sudden, violent atmospheres. Weather kept them humble.

Matthew Henry

Those, and those only, can expect to be taught by God, who are ready and willing to do as they are taught... Those who go up to the house of the Lord with an expectation that He will teach them His ways, must go with a humble resolution that they will walk in His paths.

Philip James Bailey

My favoured temple is an humble heart.

Erykah Badu

The Man That Knowz Something Knowz That He Knowz Nothing At All.

Euripides

Let no one think of me that I am humble or weak or passive; let them understand I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies, loyal to my friends. To such a life glory belongs.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

But twice-two-makes-four is for all that a most insupportable thing. Twice-two-makes-four is, in my humble opinion, nothing but a piece of impudence. Twice-two-makes-four is a farcical, dressed-up fellow who stands across your path with arms akimbo and spits at you.

J. C. Ryle

All converted people should labor to adorn the doctrine they profess by humility. If they can do nothing else, they can strive to be humble.

Ayn Rand

Why no. I’m too conceited. If you want to call it that. I don’t make comparisons. I never think of myself in relation to anyone else. I just refuse to measure myself as part of anything. I’m an utter egotist.

J. I. Packer

If we pursue theological knowledge for its own sake, it's bound to go bad on us. It will make us proud and conceited.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We often boast that we are never bored; but yet we are so conceited that we do not perceive how often we bore others.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

No people are more conceited than those who depict their own feelings, especially if they happen to have a little prose at their command for the occasion.

Walter Savage Landor

Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who thinks differently from him.

William Hazlitt

We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.

Mark Twain

If there is one thing that will make a man peculiarly and insufferable self-conceited, it is to have his stomach behave itself, the first day at sea, when nearly all his comrades are seasick.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Sri Yukteswar showed no special consideration to those who happened to be powerful or accomplished; neither did he slight others for their poverty or illiteracy. He would listen respectfully to words of truth from a child, and openly ignore a conceited pundit.

William Shakespeare

Conceit in weakest bodies works the strongest.