SOME QUOTES ON SELFISHNESS

 

                SOME QUOTES ON SELFISHNESS

Selfishness is not a virtue.  It is a weakness. Man is known as a social animal. Great sages said: Love thy neighbor as thyself. Unselfish people share their amenities even with their pets.

A selfish person is self-centred, self-interested , egotistic and self-absorbed. He who is unselfish is selfless, self-denying, altruistic, generous and liberal. He is self-denial and helpful to others. The poor are more unselfish than the rich. Whenever my car broke down on a road, the rich denied me any help. It was the poor who came to lend their helping hands.

Here are a few quotations on selfishness:-

1.The  worst education which teaches self-denial , is better than the best which teaches everything else and not that,---John Sterling, English poet (1806-1844).

2. Aman is called selfish, not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbour’s.---- Richard  Whately , Archbishop of Dublin (1757—1863).

3. The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit. –Ralph Waldo Emerson , American author (1803-1882).

4. Deliver me, O Lord, from that evil man myself. ----T. Brooke, English divine( 1608--1680 ).

5. Make use of every friend and every foe.--- Alexander Pope, English poet (1688-1744).    

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G.R.Kanwal

5^th March 2024