Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mallory Ortberg

I do not think it is selfish to want to donate a kidney "only" to family members.

Morihei Ueshiba

A technique can only work if it is in harmony with universal principles. Such principles need to be grasped through Mind, pure consciousness. Selfish desires thwart your progress, but Mind, not captivated by notions of victory or defeat, will liberate you. Mind fixes your senses and keeps you centered. Mind is the key to wondrous power and supreme clarity.

Morihei Ueshiba

True victory is self-victory; let that day arrive quickly!

Morarji Desai

From this it follows that con-sideration for other persons or for other living beings is very vital for goodness and want of consideration for other people makes human beings selfish, regardless for other people's good.

Morarji Desai

Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself.

Mordecai Richler

Actually, when it comes to knocking the Canadian cultural scene, nobody outdoes Canadians, myself included. We are veritable masters of self-deprecation.

Miles Franklin

Only a very small percentage can regard conditions from any but a selfish point of view or conceive of any but their own shoe-pinch.

Milan Kundera

I find myself fascinating.

Milan Kundera

Bacon's portraits are an interrogation on the limits of the self. Up to what degree of distortion does an individual still remain himself? To what degree of distortion does a beloved person still remain a beloved person? For how long does a cherished face growing remote through illness, through madness, through hatred, through death still remain recognizable? Where is the border beyond which a self ceases to be a self?

Milan Kundera

I am not worthy of my suffering. A great sentence. It suggests not only that suffering is the basis of the self, its sole indubitable ontological proof, but also that it is the one feeling most worthy of respect; the value of all values.

Mike Leigh

My work requires acting at its most committed - it demands actors of enormous resilience, but also intelligence and wit. It doesn't work for narcissistic or selfish actors.

Mickey Spillane

I know an awful lot of Hollywood people, who are so self-important, I can't understand it.

Marcel Proust

I cannot express the uneasiness caused in me by this intrusion of mystery and beauty into a room I had at last filled with myself to the point of paying no more attention to the room than to that self. The anesthetizing influence of habit having ceased, I would begin to have thoughts, and feelings, and they are such sad things.

Jose Rizal

Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame.

Jose Marti

A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them.

Jose Marti

A selfish man is a thief.

Jose Mourinho

The world is so competitive, aggressive, consumive, selfish and during the time we spend here we must be all but that.

Joni Eareckson Tada

My wheelchair was the key to seeing all this happen—especially since God’s power always shows up best in weakness. So here I sit … glad that I have not been healed on the outside, but glad that I have been healed on the inside. Healed from my own self-centered wants and wishes.

Kevin Conroy

Everyone has a private self and a public self.

M. Russell Ballard

All of us must come to an honest, open self-examination, an awareness within as to who and what we want to be.

M. Scott Peck

The feeling of being valuable - 'I am a valuable person'- is essential to mental health and is a cornerstone of self-discipline.

M. Scott Peck

Not only do self-love and love of others go hand in hand but ultimately they are indistinguishable.

M. Scott Peck

The act of loving is an act of self-evolution even when the purpose of the act is someone else's growth.

Lupita Nyong'o

What I will say is that what I have learned for myself is that I don’t have to be anybody else; and that myself is good enough; and that when I am being true to that self, then I can avail myself to extraordinary thingsYou have to allow for the impossible to be possible.

Lupe Fiasco

I do this for the sake of myself. It's a selfish process. I don't really have any expectations from anyone for your comments or your reviews or your previews.

John Cena

You learn to laugh at yourself and you also lean on comedy as a crutch to kind of take the edge off because comedians often are self-deprecating and they cross lines that they shouldn't. Stuff like that brings a smile to my face every once in a while when needed.

Martin Seligman

Self-esteem cannot be directly injected. It needs to result from doing well, from being warranted.

Martin Sheen

And there are so many people in the third world suffering so horribly right now, and we are so focused on ourselves and our culture that a lot of things are showing up in our culture that are making it impossible for us to focus on others. We're so self-focused.

Laverne Cox

I'm a Self-made Woman in Every Sense of the Word

Lauryn Hill

I don't feel like my money or my success defines me. I've always been very happy just bein' me.

Laura Lippman

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

Laura Linney

What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.

Lance Morrow

For now, we assume that self-evolving robots will learn to mimic human traits, including, eventually, humor. And so, I can't wait to hear the first joke that one robot tells to another robot.