Nate Lowman Quotes

We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'

I feel really ambiguous about the psychology of people trying to do good in the world.

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

Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to balance it against the altruism to which we should all aspire. It is a difficult balance to strike, but no definition of goodness can be complete without it.

There's no such thing as altruism.

This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.

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.

I don't believe we're only motivated by our own self-interests. Often out of crisis comes this enormous wellspring of generosity and motivation.

For myself, suffering doesnt make me a good person; it makes me selfish. Why do we think that people who have less should find it edifying?

I think we all have a selfish gene which rises to the top, sometimes. But then we're also all capable of a sudden magnanimity.

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

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

The major forces in human nature: self interest and caring for others

It's good to be authentic, to help other people, but if it's not helping other people, then don't do it.

I don't think it really serves to make the world a better place, when you're only concerned about yourself.

I'm not too selfish or unselfish.

I'm a really selfish person. But I would do anything for my friends.

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

We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.

The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

True generosity is an offering; given freely and out of pure love. No strings attached. No expectations. Time and love are the most valuable possession you can share.

If I want to be a loving, generous, giving person, I'm not going to test the waters. I'm simply going to be a loving, generous, giving person.