Selfishness Quotes

Selfishness has never been admired.

Man is not, by nature, deserving of all that he wants. When we think that we are automatically entitled to something, that is when we start walking all over others to get it.

God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness and wake us up to the presence of others in this world, and that mechanism is called suffering.

The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.

Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect

I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.

Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice.

The most disgraceful cause of the scarcity [of remedies] is that even those who know them do not want to point them out, as if they were going to lose what they pass on to others.

Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness.

In this age of selfishness, selfless service is the only soap that truly purifies.

Getting enough of what you want without depriving anyone else is the ultimate act of selfishness and sanity.

It never enters the lady's head that the wet-nurse's baby probably dies.

Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.

Wars come from egotism and selfishness. Every macrocosmic or world war has its origin in microcosmic wars going on inside millions and millions of individuals.

The ego hates losing – even to God.

We are to give (and take) true love without falling into the narcissistic habit of only trying to take it in.

Did the mass of men know the actual selfishness and injustice of their rulers, not a government would stand a year. - The world would foment with revolution.

Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.

The greatest slave is not he who is ruled by a despot, great though that evil be, but he who is in the thrall of his own moral ignorance, selfishness, and vice.

Selfishness is the bedrock on which all moral behavior starts and it can be immoral only when it conflicts with a higher moral imperative.

The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade.

Cleanse your body and soul, removing malice, selfishness and desire.

Personal importance, or taking things personally, is the maximum expression of selfishness because we make the assumption that everything is about me.

Most human beings know only the language of exploitation. Due to their selfishness, they are unable to consider others.

Selfishness and self-absorption are deadly charm-exterminators.

How often, in this cold and bitter world, is the warm heart thrown back upon itself! Cold, careless, are we of another's grief; we wrap ourselves in sullen selfishness.

Lessen selfishness and restrain desires.

There are points in your life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary.

Selfishness alone is sufficient to bring apocalypse upon a nation.

Be, as many now are, luxurious to yourself, parsimonious to your friends. [Lat., Esto, ut nunc multi, dives tibi pauper amicis.]

The organization and constant onward sweep of this movement exemplifies the resentment of the many toward the selfishness, greed and the neglect of the few.

This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.

A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life.

Less, less of self each day, And more, my God, of Thee!

Our selfishness is so robust and many-clutching that, well encouraged, it easily devours all sustenance away from our poor little scruples.

Selfishness is the grand moving principle of nine-tenths of our actions.

The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.

I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.

Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

There seemed to be three choices: to give up trying to love anyone, to stop being selfish, or to learn to love a person while continuing to be selfish.

How much that the world calls selfishness is only generosity with narrow walls,--a too exclusive solicitude to maintain a wife in luxury, or make one's children rich.

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

The fact is that sin is the most unmanly thing in God's world. You never were made for sin and selfishness. You were made for love and obedience.

Sordid selfishness doth contract and narrow our benevolence, and cause us, like serpents, to infold ourselves within ourselves, and to turn out our stings to the entire world besides.

Selfishness is the key quality that all successful people share. To be the best at what you do in any field, and to accomplish the goals you set for yourself, you have to be somewhat selfish.

It is to the credit of human nature that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates.

You shouldn't punish others for your own choices.

stinginess seemed instinctive to him. Darwinian even. He hadn't gotten to his current size by sharing.