Patrick Stump Quotes

The happiest is the man who is not at all selfish.

There's nothing about me that's selfish.

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.

The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness.

We all of us need to be toppled off the throne of self, my dear," he said. "Perched up there the tears of others are never upon our own cheek.

I want people to have less me.

People with humility don't think less of themselves, they just think of themselves less.

You will never find a truly happy self-centered person. They simply don't exist.

Never forget - happiness ends when selfishness begins.

We must want for others, not ourselves alone.

When I was in grade school and we had to write papers about what we wanted to be when we grew up, I wanted to be a social worker or a missionary or a teacher... Then I got involved with tennis, and everything was just me, me, me. I was totally selfish and thought about myself and nobody else, because if you let up for one minute, someone was going to come along and beat you. I really wouldn't let anyone or any slice of happiness enter... I didn't like the characteristics that it took to become a champion.

The hardest work you and I will ever do is to put off our selfishness. It is heavy lifting!

She lived for others, her heart tuned to their anguish and their needs.

Altruism itself depends on a recognition of the reality of other persons, and on the equivalent capacity to regard oneself as merely one individual among many.

you have to be very careful when you give to others that you don't tell them how great you are rather than how much you value them.

Whatever affection we have for our friends or relations, the happiness of others never suffices for our own.

My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.

We are all wise for other people, none for himself.

One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.

We ought to be people of compassion. And being people of compassion means we deny ourselves, and our self centeredness.

Humility is also a healing virtue; it will cicatrize a thousand wounds, which pride would keep forever open.

By developing a sense of respect for others and a concern for their welfare, we reduce our own selfishness, which is the source of all problems, and enhance our sense of kindness, which is a natural source of goodness.

I take the greatest lesson from compassion - it takes away all the conceit out of my life.

Selfish is easy. It's sharing that takes courage.