Richard Whately Quotes

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.

When you go out there and do the things you're supposed to do, people view you as selfish.

There is a difference between being self-interested and being selfish. I will never be selfish.

I don't know if it's ever OK for someone to be selfish. Perhaps there's a time and place to be self-centered, but I think selfish never wins the race.

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.

Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.

I'm not a selfish person, I don't think.

I'm not a selfish guy.

I'm not selfish.

We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.

We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their interest.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

I think I'm still figuring out how to be a little less selfish.

I really don't like hurting people; I like making people feel good.

Kindness makes a fellow feel good whether it's being done to him or by him.

Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless.

I never want to get to the point where it's all about my needs, and the hell with anybody else.

I'm not selfish at all.

I was brought up not to be selfish or self-centered. So if you play somebody who isn't so lovable, you can play that person and no one will turn on you. I don't want to play that person in real life. Because then people won't like me so much.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest.

All saints are selfish.

I was never focused on me, me, me all the time. I was always focused on somebody else.

I am not selfish.

I'm not too selfish or unselfish.