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  • In my final years in Green Bay, when I wasn't getting the ball, people would ask me why I never complained. 'Because these guys are my family,' I would say. 'I'm not selfish. It's not about me. It's about these guys, my family, and winning championships together.

    Selfish   Winning   Years  
  • God is not harsh; He is holy. He is not selfish; He is sovereign. He is not unfeeling; He is all-knowing. Like David, we need to come to know Him, and respect Him; and, like David, we will love Him more.

    Selfish   Knowing   Needs  
    Beth Moore (2012). “A Heart Like His: Intimate Reflections on the Life of David”, p.144, B&H Publishing Group
  • One of the greatest evils is the foolishness of a good man. For the giving man to withhold helping someone in order to first assure personal fortification is not selfish, but to elude needless self-destruction; martyrdom is only practical when the thought is to die, else a good man faces the consequence of digging a hole from which he cannot escape, and truly helps no one in the long run.

  • I'm an egotist, but I'm not selfish. There's a difference. I'm a neurotic, I guess. I can't stop thinking about myself. It isn't that I think myself so important. I simply can't think about anything else, that's all.

    "Tropic of Cancer".
  • Putting yourself first is not selfish. Quite the opposite. You must put your happiness and health first before you can be of help to anyone else.

  • Since the real purpose of meditation is to increase our capacity to help others, taking time each day to meditate is not selfish. We have to manage our time and energy in such a way that we can be of maximum benefit to others, and to do this we need time alone to recover our strength, collect our thoughts, and see things in perspective

    Strength   Time   Selfish  
    Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (2011). “Eight Steps to Happiness: The Buddhist Way of Loving Kindness”, p.213, Tharpa Publications US
  • Good travels at a snail's pace. Those who want to do good are not selfish, they are not in a hurry, they know that to impregnate people with good requires a long time.

    Selfish   Long   People  
    Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.24, Penguin Books India
  • Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.

    Erich Fromm (2014). “The Erich Fromm Reader: Readings Selected and Edited by Rainer Funk”, p.105, Open Road Media
  • If you have a billion Muslims, 900 million of them were not brought into Islam by any kind of invasion, but most of them through the Sufis, because human beings are such that they are affected by people of spiritual character. Certainly when they display nobility and hospitality and gentility and love and are not selfish or aggressive, and they are honest.

    Source: www.counterpunch.org
  • It is not selfish to be happy. It is your highest purpose. Your joy is the greatest contribution you can make to life on the planet. A heart at peace with its owner blesses everyone it touches.

    Selfish   Heart   Joy  
  • Love is not selfish or unkind. Nor is it boastful or disloyal. Love is simply a deep feeling found within the heart that money cannot buy.

    Selfish   Heart   Love Is  
  • Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

    Life   Sad   Beautiful  
    Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.64, Oscar Wilde
  • Human beings are not intrinsically selfish, which isolates us from others. We are essentially social animals who depend on others to meet our needs. We achieve happiness, prosperity and progress through social interaction. Therefore, having a kind and helpful attitude contributes to our own and others' happiness.

  • Selfishness, not love, is the actuating motive of the gallant.

  • Casting a spell, in self-defense or in self-interest is not selfish, but positive, life-affirming. You have been given powers, the very same powers that society devalues... What if it comes back tenfold? Well, don't be a fool. Never use your magick to attack the innocent. Then you have nothing to fear... Don't be frivolous or cowardly. If your course is righteous, and your tools ready, go to it.

  • A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.

    Selfish   Flower   Garden  
    Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.64, Oscar Wilde
  • Humility is the essence of repentance. Humility is selfless, not selfish. It doesn't demand its own way or speak with moral superiority. Instead, humility answers softly and listens kindly for understanding, not vindication. Humility recognizes that no one can change someone else, but with faith, effort, and the help of God, we can undergo our own mighty change of heart.

  • Self-care is not selfish. You cannot serve from an empty vessel.

  • She could not explain or quite understand that it wasn't altogether jealousy she felt, it was rage. And not because she couldn't shop like that or dress like that. It was because that was what girls were supposed to be like. That was what men - people, everybody - thought they should be like. Beautiful, treasured, spoiled, selfish, pea-brained. That was what a girl should be, to be fallen in love with. Then she would become a mother and she'd be all mushily devoted to her babies. Not selfish anymore, but just as pea-brained. Forever.

    Love   Beautiful   Girl  
  • The Christian Gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me. This leads to deep humility and deep confidence at the same time. It undermines both swaggering and sniveling. I cannot feel superior to anyone, and yet I have nothing to prove to anyone. I do not think more of myself nor less of myself. Instead, I think of myself less.

    Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.179, Penguin
  • It is not selfish or narcissistic to love yourself. It is your first and foremost responsibility.

    Alan Cohen (2000). “Dare to Be Yourself”
  • True love is not selfish. In time it accustoms itself to anything which secures happiness for its object.

    Susan Coolidge, Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (2015). “Clover: 4th volume of the "Katy" series.”, p.132, Mondial
  • Love is the key to the mystery. Love by its very nature is not selfish, but generous. It seeks not its own, but the good of others. The measure of love is not the pleasure it gives-that is the way the world judges it-but the joy and peace it can purchase for others.

    Selfish   Love Is   Keys  
    Fulton J. Sheen (2017). “Go to Heaven: A Spiritual Road Map to Eternity”, p.219, Ignatius Press
  • An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness.

    Clara Barton (1899). “The Red Cross in peace and war”
  • Why is it immoral for you to desire, but moral for others to do so? Why is it immoral to produce a value and keep it, but moral to give it away? And if it is not moral for you to keep a value, why is it moral for others to accept it? If you are selfless and virtuous when you give it, are they not selfish and vicious when they take it?

    Selfish   Giving   Desire  
    Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.31, Penguin
  • It's not selfish to give TO yourself as much as you give OF yourself

  • The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places.

    Selfish   Liars   Lying  
  • Live your life as you see fit. That's not selfish. Selfish is to demand that others live their lives as you see fit.

  • Be not selfish in your doings: pass it on.

    Song: Pass It On, Album: Burnin', 1973
  • If you're not selfish enough to want to feel good, then you can't connect with the energy that is your Source which does always feel good.

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