Selfishness Quotes

One of the worst things sin did for man was to make him selfish, for selfishness cannot love.

The greatest surprise of human evolution may be that the highest form of selfishness is selflessness.

Selfishness comes from poverty in the heart, from the belief that love is not abundant.

Take the selfishness out of anger and you're left with determination.

Desire is the root of selfishness; clear your heart of desire and be selfless. Selflessness is the key to inner peace.

Let this be thy whole endeavor, this thy prayer, this thy desire,-that thou mayest be stripped of all selfishness, and with entire simplicity follow Jesus only.

In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.

Pulling weeds and planting seeds. That's the story of life. We are individual lots on which either weeds of selfishness or fruit of the Holy Spirit grows and flourishes.

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.

Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.

The trouble with Clare was, not only that she wanted to have her cake and eat it too, but that she wanted to nibble at the cakes of other folk as well.

God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself.

My desire for the part of Mammy was not dominated by selfishness for Hollywood has been good to me and I am grateful

Short-sighted men who in their greed and selfishness will, if permitted, rob our country of half its charm by their reckless extermination of all useful and beautiful wild things.

Love . . . [is] a lack of personal selfishness.

The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.

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

In a word, most bad attitudes are the result of selfishness.

Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind because the truth lies elsewhere

Generosity is the only legitimate selfishness.

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

There is no such thing as low-cost Christianity. Following Jesus means swimming against the tide, renouncing evil and selfishness

We can pay the ecological debt by changing economic models, and by giving up luxury consumption, setting aside selfishness and individualism, and thinking about the people and the planet Earth.

There is a big, beautiful world that could be destroyed by selfishness and foolishness. We musicians have it without power to save it. In a small way, every single one of us counts.

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

If there is one thing I dislike, it is the man who tries to air his grievances when I wish to air mine.

Our selfishness will condemn us to the worst suffering that we ourselves have invented - loneliness.

Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.

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.

No selfishness or insecurity kept him from seeing the full extent of her goodness, as it so often does with the rest of us. That kind of love may only be possible in Abnegation. I do not know.

The greatest productive force is human selfishness.

Wisdom means that it gives you detachment, detachment from all that is selfishness, self-centredness, self-obsession, ego - all connected with self.

Selfishness beats altruism within groups. Altruistic groups beat selfish groups. Everything else is commentary.

Selfishness can be a virtue. Selfishness is essential to survival, and without survival we cannot protect those whom we love more than ourselves.

The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness.

O my God, how true it is that we may have of Thy gifts and yet may be full of ourselves!

Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.

Legal plunder has two roots: One, as we have just seen, is in human selfishness; the other is in false philanthropy.

Childlessness doesn't make people selfish; selfishness makes people selfish.

Camera but no selfies, which represent selfishness and egotism. Social media? Again: not really me.

Selfishness at the expense of others happiness is demonism.

Selfishness has never been admired.

Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.

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.

The planet should not be used as a warehouse of resources to serve humanity's selfishness

Understand the suffering of worldly existence. Abandon its causes of ignorance and selfishness. Practice the path of meditation and compassion. Awaken from suffering within Great Peace.

Suicide to them is an act of selfishness. Someone who is truly selfless does not think of himself often enough to desire death.

In one degree or another we all struggle with selfishness. Since it is so common, why worry about selfishness anyway? Because selfishness is really self-destruction in slow motion.

Take the selfishness out of this world and there would be more happiness than we should know what to do with.