Selfishness is the only real atheism aspiration unselfishness the only real religion.

Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories our pride our selfishness our malice our passions which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly I shall not seek and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as president.

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy that is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

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

To feel much for others and little for ourselves to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections constitute the perfection of human nature.

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief a forlorn hope it is impossible.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice and is never the result of selfishness.