Lydia M. Child Quotes

I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.

I've succeeded at everything except my life.

I intended to be famous by the time I was 16 and rich by the time I was 20. Curiously, it didn't pan out!

I suppose it's amazing when you think how many things people get involved in that don't work.

Many feel discouraged because they have not measured up to their potential.

For is there any practice less selfish, any labor less alienated, any time less wasted, than preparing something delicious and nourishing for people you love?

This is what happens when you try to help people. You get screwed.

If we have chosen the position in life in which we can most of all work for mankind, no burdens can bow us down, because they are sacrifices for the benefit of all; then we shall experience no petty, limited, selfish joy, but our happiness will belong to millions, our deeds will live on quietly but perpetually at work, and over our ashes will be shed the hot tears of noble people.

I'm trying to teach people not to be selfish. That's the thing. If you have a good thing share it. Of course we're not in a sexual relationship.

Barack Obama's failed us. But look, it's understandable. A lot of people fail at their first job.

If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit.

There are good points about all... wars. People forget self. The virtues of magnanimity, courage, patriotism, etc., are called into life. People are more generous, more sympathetic, better, than when engaged in the more selfish pursuits of peace.

Many people measure their success by wealth, recognition, power and status. There's nothing wrong with those, but if that's all you're focused on, you're missing the boat...if you focus on significance -using your time and talent to serve others -that's when truly meaningful success can come your way.

That's always been my approach, to expose what's going on and what's not being said. I could go the selfish route, and probably make a whole lot more money, but that's not what it's about, it's about speaking for people who can't speak for themselves.

Your unhappiness doesn't help anyone else - and in fact, as I mentioned in another answer, happy people are more altruistically inclined. So happiness is not a selfish goal.

Not everyone is selfish in fashion. There are people who go to bed feeling good about themselves and then spread the love.

People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.

How could two people who were so in love not end up happily ever after? It had to work. Didn’t it?

If we succeed with something, that is only because others are in need of what e have produced. And the more success we have with something, the more people require that we express it. So it goes without saying, as a result of this we in principle never win out, others win. We always lose

But the most important lesson I have learned in my twenty years or research on morality is that nearly all people are morally motivated. Selfishness is a powerful force, particularly in the decisions of individuals, but whenever groups of people come together to make a sustained effort to change the world, you can bet that they are pursuing a vision of virtue, justice, or sacredness.

Good travels at a snail's pace. Those who want to do good are not selfish, they are not in a hurry, they know that to impregnate people with good requires a long time.

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.

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway.

I have done a lot of things off the field but I feel like in my heart I dont really have to publicize what I do for people because it is from my heart.

If you love people enough, they will give you everything.