Selfish Quotes
The education system today makes and educated person selfish. It makes that person a slave to the senses and as a consequence the person forgets their own divine nature.
I am guilty of a dreadful selfish crime. I have robbed myself of all my precious time
While we may not be called to martyr our lives, we must martyr our way of life. We must put our selfish ways to death and march to a different beat. Then the world will see Jesus.
The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.
God's love is so great that He loves even the proud, the selfish, the arrogant, and the wicked.
There is a fear of the Lord which is the beginning of wisdom, which is founded in love. There is also a slavish fear, which is a mere dread of evil, and is purely selfish.
Savage and furious nations, perpetually at war, adore, under diverse names, some God, conformable to their ideas, that is to say, cruel, carnivorous, selfish, blood-thirsty.
You can't build marriage on a foundation of selfish hedonism, because that would be to promise people only roses, and marriage is also thorns.
I became a lawyer for selfish reasons. I thought I could do a lawyer’s job better than any other.
I am selfish. I reach for the world I want to live in. And I believe in leaving our best we can do to our children
People are suspicious of single men on vacation, after they get to a certain age: they assume that they're selfish, and probably a bit pervy. I can't say they're wrong.
Selfishness beats altruism within groups. Altruistic groups beat selfish groups. Everything else is commentary.
The main problem I always have with multiplayer is that human beings are grabby, entitled, selfish, ugly, stupid, evil cockstoppers.
Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever equalled the carnage perpetrated by disciples of altruism.
Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
The spiritual life is a call to action. But it is a call to ... action without any selfish attachment to the results.
Maybe coming clean is the ultimate selfish act. A way to absolve yourself by hurting someone who doesn't deserve to be hurt.
We cannot love ourselves unless we love others, and we cannot love others unless we love ourselves. But a selfish love of ourselves makes us incapable of loving others.
We express true love in obedience to God and service to others- not reckless or selfish behavior- and we choose these behaviors.
When you go out there and do the things you're supposed to do, people view you as selfish.
If your prayer is selfish, the answer will be something that will rebuke your selfishness. You may not recognize it as having come at all, but it is sure to be there.
We just played unselfishly. At times this year, we've played selfish, but today we passed the ball. ... We were just very supportive of each other.
It is imperative that good people, men and women of principle, be involved in the political process; otherwise we abdicate power to those whose designs are almost entirely selfish.
The United States has lost her unique position as a leader in the progress of civilization and has taken up her place simply as one of the grasping and selfish nations of the present day.
Although our emotions sometimes behave like spoiled, selfish children, unfortunately we cannot send them to their room or tell them to stop screaming.
How soon the labor of men would make a paradise of the earth were it not for misgovernment and a diversion of his energies to selfish interests.
All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery.
If my love is without sacrifice, it is selfish. Such a love is barter, for there is exchange of love and devotion in return for something. It is conditional love.
Before my accident I was a little too... selfish and self-absorbed and for me, to now be at the place where I can kinda give back and inspire people. I'm blessed. I'm really blessed.
Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude itself is, in one sense, overcome.
Everyone has to contribute to the common good. To not do so can be described in one word: selfish.
Show me an 'easy person,' and I will show you a selfish one. Good-natured he may be; why not? since the disastrous consequences of his 'easiness' are generally shouldered by other people.
Competition is all about you. It's about feeding your selfish needs. It feeds the depravity of your heart.
If you look at the people in Hollywood who are heavy partiers, they're selfish, self-centered and egotistical.
The intelligent altruists, though less altruistic than unintelligent altruists, will be fitter than both unintelligent altruists and selfish individuals.
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.
How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!
If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit.
I think music is a selfish masturbatory event - for the listener, the maker, the candlestick...maker.