Selfishness Quotes

Gratitude: An imaginary emotion that rewards an imaginary behavior, altruism. Both imaginaries are false faces for selfishness, which is a real and honest emotion.

Selfishness makes Christmas a burden; Love makes it a delight. The joy of brightening a child's heart creates the magic of Christmas.

Happiness must be shared. Selfishness it its enemy; to make another happy is to be happy one's self. It is quiet, most easily won in moments of solitude and reflection. It comes from within.

History of Ireland--lawlessness and turbulency, robbery and oppression, hatred and revenge, blind selfishness everywhere--no principle, no heroism. What can be done with it?

It is folly to abstain all day long from food, but fail to abstain from sin and selfishness.

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

Only by realizing what selfishness and lack of generosity really are can the delicious fragrance of true love and effective generosity, which is not of the mind, burst forth in our hearts.

In Scouting you are combating the brooding of selfishness.

Economics is sometimes associated with the study and defense of selfishness and material inequality, but it has an egalitarian and civil libertarian core that should be celebrated.

The rights of the people to the exercise and fruits of their own industry can never be protected against the selfishness of rulers not subject to their control at short periods.

Now is the time to set your life's goals. Now is the time to set your standards firmly and then hold to them throughout your life.

Without the help of selfishness, the human animal would never have developed. Egoism is the vine by which man hoisted himself out of the swamp and escaped from the jungle.

It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself.

It is an act of extreme selfishness for a married couple to refuse to have children when they are able to do so.

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

The Good Turn will educate the boy out of the groove of selfishness.

Selfishness doesn't consist in a love to yourself, but in a big degree of such love.

The force of selfishness is as inevitable and as calculable as the force of gravitation.

It's easy to make a mess when you're not the one who has to clean it up.

The basis of all sin is selfishness.

The truth is that cupidity, selfishness, envy, malice, lust, vindictiveness, are constant vices of human nature.

So long as selfishness makes government needful at all, it must make every government corrupt, save one in which all men are represented.

There can be no Good Will. Will is always Evil; it is persecution to others or selfishness.

People's lives are filled with vice and the trappings of it. Ambition, greed and selfishness all have to do with vice. Sooner or later, you have to see through it or you don't survive.

The hatred and cruelty which have their source in selfishness are ineffectual things compared with the venom and ruthlessness born of selflessness.

Selfishness is the controlling force of sinful living. It is this motive which pulsates through the natural mind, emotions and will - self-pleasing, self-serving, living for self.

there were people who occupied telephone booths as though they had rented them for the day.

Selfishness and separatation have led me to believe that the world is not my problem. I am the world.

Selfishness is the greatest challenge for a coach. Most players are more concerned with making themselves better than the team.

Money only appeals to selfishness and always tempts its owners irresistibly to abuse it. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus, or Gandhi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie?

I believe we are most likely to succeed when ambition is focused on noble and worthy purposes and outcomes rather than on goals set out of selfishness.

It's something about the inevitability. How nothing can keep them apart--not her selfishness, or his evil, or even death, in the end...their love is their only redeeming quality.

What the writers do, and we hopefully can bring to life, is that they present characters who, on the surface, aren't always heroic and their acts aren't always devoid of selfishness.

It's a shame that we humans are never able to pull in the same direction . . . [n]ot even when confronted by infinity.

If people are innately saddled with certain sins and flaws, like selfishness, prejudice, sort-sightedness, and self-deception, then political reform would seem to be a waste of time.

We are not slow at discovering the selfishness of others; for this plain reason--because it clashes with our own.

There is a prodigious selfishness in dreams: they live perfectly deaf and invulnerable amid the cries of the real world.

Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.

How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! Supreme selfishness is inculcated upon him as his only duty.

Happiness begins when selfishness ends.

Romance is alive and well in America, but the 50 percent who can't make it work fail because of selfishness. It gets down to that. You can't oversimplify it because every situation is so complex.

Selfishness is the root and source of all natural and moral evils.

There is only one force stronger than selfishness, and that is stupidity.

Selfishness and fear are at the root of (pro-abortion) legislation...We in the Church have a great struggle to defend life...life is a gift not a threat.

It's almost selfishness, taking care of your mental health. You can't just not do it.

Selfishness does not mean only to do things for one's self. One may do things, affecting others, for his own pleasure and benefit. This is not immoral, but the highest of morality.

Aggression is the first step on the slippery slope to selfishness and chaos.

My self-absorption warms me; yours boils me.

Charity does not like arithmetic; selfishness worships it.

Nothing is more condemnable than selfishness. A man who thinks of himself alone is the most unlucky person of all.