Ashton Eaton Quotes

I'm not comfortable with just me, me, me. That's boring.

We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that is alive around us, and reconcile ourselves with our environment.

What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.

What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give.

I'll admit that I'm self-centered - all of us are - but I can also be external and giving and listening and empathetic and all that sort of stuff.

He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.

Every forward is selfish, and any forward who tells you he is not selfish is a liar.

Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.

I'm dangerously generous.

It's good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people.

I've certainly had a lot of experiences in my life where I was much too self-centered.

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

I don't like people who are just takers.

So I would hope they would develop some kind of habit that involves understanding that their life is so full they can afford to give in all kinds of ways to other people. I consider that to be baseline spirituality.

I think the most surprising thing about giving is it takes a while to find out what you're really interested in and what you really want to do.

Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.

Gorillas are almost altruistic in nature. There's very little if any 'me-itis.' When I get back to civilization, I'm always appalled by 'me, me, me.'

I never used the press for anything except my charity.

My concerns have been about myself and not about giving something back and putting something in, even though that's been in the back of my head.

It's so easy to be selfish in your 20s and not want to sacrifice.

We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

I'm my mother's son, so when it comes to altruism and understanding how to do things to benefit a person's life... the women in my life have been much better than the men.

I'm like a big kid. But it's not like a called myself the Instagram King. I put up what people want to see and that just happened.

I am learning to be more humble and giving as a person.