Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

A lot of comedians are selfish.

There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.

I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness.

If you are passionate only about yourself -that is the road to disaster.

I'm just selfish. I have to be for what I do.

I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!

Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.

me-firstism

The egoist does not tolerate egoism.

Selfishness is the only real atheism.

The howl of self-interest is loud ... but the heart is black which throbs solely to its note.

Strikers are egotists, selfish. We have to be.

Selfishness is one of the more common faces of pride. 'How everything affects me' is the center of all that matters - self-conceit, self-pity, worldly self-fulfillment, self-gratification, and self-seeking.

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.

I am a greedy, selfish bastard. I want the fact that I existed to mean something.

We all get self-centered.

To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell.

I'm selfish.

The only one that matters is me. I am the only one that matters.

Majority of minds are warped into the belief of the only person worth helping is themself.