Billie Lourd 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.

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

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

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.

There's no such thing as altruism.

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

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.

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

I'm not very interested in myself. I do have a deep moral belief that you should always look out at other things and not be self-centred.

I'm really interested in the difference between selfishness and generosity. It confuses me to no end because sometimes it all just feels like pure indulgence on my part.

If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.

I'm not selfish at all.

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

If I can help one person, why wouldn't I?

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

If you love friends, you will serve your friends. If you love community, you will serve your community. If you love money, you will serve your money. And if you love only yourself, you will serve only yourself. And you will have only yourself.

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

There are people who do everything for a calculative political motive. My only motive is a human motive.

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

Heroes are people who think more of others than themselves. This is not to say that they don't think of themselves. They do. They certainly do. But they think of others more.

I'm not a real greedy guy.

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

Altruism accrues little benefit to those lying cold in the gutter.

Hollywood wants its heroes to be virtuous, but it defines virtue in a way that excludes any action that is self-interested. If virtue means putting others ahead of self, then it's clear that most people, let alone most capitalists, aren't very virtuous.