Selfishness Quotes

Selfishness is the making a man's self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doeth.

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

You shouldn't punish others for your own choices.

If you must hate, if hatred is the leaven of your life, which alone can give flavor, then hate what should be hated: falsehood, violence, selfishness.

Atheism exists only in coldness, selfishness, and baseness.

Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice.

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

Like nature itself, modern economic life is driven by relentless competition and unbridled selfishness. Or is it?

A gene might be able to assist replicas of itself that are sitting in other bodies. If so, this would appear as individual altruism but it would be brought about by gene selfishness.

No man is more cheated than the selfish man.

There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.

Strange that only a little problem of your own will take your mind far from a tragedy belonging to others.

When I am not king, then THE Kingdom has its best chance of breaking through.

If the entire world sought to make itself worthy of happiness rather than make itself happy, then the entire world would be happy.

When you have wit of your own, it's a pleasure to credit other people for theirs.

The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness or sinister interest.

The fawning courtier and the surly squire often mean the same thing,--each his own interest.

One thing is clear to me, that no indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness.

It is selfishness which is the cause of most of our misery.

Our infinite obligations to God do not fill our hearts half as much as a petty uneasiness of our own; nor His infinite perfections as much as our smallest wants.

A gamester, as such, is the cool, calculating, essential spirit of concentrated, avaricious selfishness.

Thorough selfishness destroys or paralyzes enjoyment. A heart made selfish by the contest for wealth is like a citadel stormed in war, utterly shattered.

Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

We can neither change nor overpower God's eternal suffrage against selfishness and meanness.

We wish to constitute all the happiness, or, if that cannot be, the misery of the one we love.

In the North the first words are, Help me; in the South, Love me.

The act of love . . . is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself.

To be saved is only this-salvation from our own selfishness.

We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness behind.

Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.

Altruism is written in everlasting and resplendent character on the Cross of Christ, and it was at Calvary that the centre of life was shifted from selfishness to sacrifice.

What can one possibly introduce into a mind that is already full, and full of itself?

He who does most to cure woman of her weakness, her frivolity, and her servility will likewise at the same stroke do most to cure man of his brutality, his selfishness and his sensuality.

A liking for truth at any cost is a passion that spares nothing and that nothing resists. It's a vice, at times a comfort, or a selfishness.

The age of selfishness and greed is over. The age of kindness and generosity is underway.

How sick one gets of being "good," how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness.

Fatherhood: How God blesses you out of your selfishness and floods your soul with love, all while reminding you how little you know.

As frost to the bud, and blight to the blossom, even such is self-interest to friendship; for confidence cannot dwell where selfishness is porter at the gate.

As you help those in need, selfishness will fall away. And, without even noticing you will find your own fulfillment.

I was surprised by how much I like being a father; surprised at what a decent father I am, because I was afraid I wouldn't be able to dump my selfishness.

If you think about yourself then you've lost sight of the ball.

We are vulnerable if we can be taken by a wave of emotion, invaded by an invidious impulse, roughed up by resentment, or engulfed by a surge of selfishness.

Selfishness is the biggest form of helplessness as it makes the person blind so much that he fails to search his true self for being always in the lurch.

Every time we give in to selfishness and say “No” to God, we spoil his loving plan for us.

While selfishness joins hands with no one of the virtues, benevolence is allied to them all.

It is to be doubted whether he will ever find the way to heaven who desires to go thither alone.

Selfishness is unnecessary. War is obsolete.

Selfishness in art, as in other things, is sensibility kept at home.

Every divorce is the result of selfishness on the part of one or both parties to a marriage contract.