Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Fear's greatest weapon is its ability to blind one to anything. In its presence, we forget there are others to consider, things to save besides ourselves.

A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.

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

It was hard to love my wife and kids because I was all wrapped up in loving only myself. I did what I wanted, when I wanted, without any real concern for them.

Every ignoramus imagines that all that exists, exists with a view to his individual sake; it is as if there were nothing that exists except him. And if something happens to him that is contrary to what he wishes, he makes the trenchant judgement that all that exists is an evil.

Selfishness keeps man blind through life.

Strikers are egotists, selfish. We have to be.

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.

We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

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

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

A lot of comedians are selfish.

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

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

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

I was deaf and dumb and blind to all but me, myself and I.

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.

Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.

If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.

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

Actors are inherently self-centered.

I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.

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

Relationships are give-and-take, and when you're a tennis player, you're certainly not giving. You have to be self-absorbed. It has to be about you.