Selfishness Quotes

Love. Help with no expectations. Destroy selfishness, self... At the end of our lives, I believe the soul will be asked, "What did you do for your fellow man?"

Conceit is lovable and unconcealed ; vanity is supreme selfishness, usually hidden.

I'm really interested in the difference between selfishness and generosity. It confuses me to no end because sometimes it all just feels like pure indulgence on my part.

Selfishness is much more than an ordinary problem because it activates all the cardinal sins! It is the detonator in the breaking of the Ten Commandments.

WHAT IF we all treat other people as we wish to be treated? MORE happiness. LESS selfishness, crime, fraud, hatred, terrorism, wars.

Blessed loves! how happy they have made us on the earth; what will they be when they have deepened through ages, with no alloy of envy or suspicion or selfishness or sorrow?

Greed and selfishness do seem to be central motivators of mankind.

Selfishness is the root of great evil.

Lust is raw selfishness. It's all about my wants, my needs, my pleasure. Most love songs are actually lust songs.

Just like self-interest is not selfishness, well, confidence is not a negative. Confidence is not an off-putting thing. It's, in fact, necessary for all good leaders.

Marriage is a state that is attended with so much care and trouble, that it is a kind of faulty indulgence and selfishness to livesingle, in order to avoid the difficulties it is attended with.

Human love is mostly selfishness; all the time it thinks only of the little 'i'. That 'i' is the ego.

I don't think the revisionist historians are accurate. I think their agendas are clouded by selfishness and anger and rage.

Very unfairly, there's a negative image of the kid, which really stems from the greed and selfishness of the NBA and NCAA. They're forcing these kids to go to school.

Turkey, Japan do great work because they can keep under control their little personal selfishness, egoism, jealousy, etc. when they get down to work.

When I was an animal I evolved through selfishness. Now that I am a man my evolution can be achieved only through self-sacrifice.

Democracy is threatened by the inertia of good people, by the selfishness of most people, and by the evil designs of a few people.

One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves.

[The seers call him wise] whose every attempt is free, without any desire for gain, without any selfishness.

I am always nearest to myself," says the Latin proverb.

It's usually the stupid people that develop long illnesses. You need more than indolence and selfishness, you need endurance to make a good patient.

What's the matter with the world? Why, there ain't nothing but one word wrong with everyone of us, and that's selfishness.

I have learned, by some experience, that virtue and patriotism, vice and selfishness, are found in all parties, and that they differ less in their motives than in the policies they pursue.

Selfishness, eager for a heaven of enjoyment, is quite a different thing in the soul from love and purity and truth, yearning together for what is their natural element.

Of all influences that cause men to choose wrong, selfishness is undoubtedly the strongest. Where it is, the Spirit is not.

Selfishness draws men into a spiritual vacuum where, absorbed in self service, they shut out all others.

If I had my mouth, I would bite; if I had my liberty, I would do my liking. In the meantime, let me be that I am, and seek not toalter me.

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.Listen to it carefully.

One might almost define intelligence as the level at which an aware organism demands, 'What's in it for me?

When we're constantly thinking about ourselves, our world shrinks.

One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one’s own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns and derives from love.

Love is what freed me from the cell of my selfishness.

Oh, my child, can you not see? You must let go of yourself. For if a seed wishes to live, it must sacrifice itself and grow outward, not inward.

He wouldn't hear of anybody's paying taxes, though he was very patriotic.

That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. (to Horatio Gates, 1798)

The first sentiment of man was that of his existence, his first care that of preserving it.

Everything that is wrong with this sinful world, is rooted in the selfishness of man. Rom. 8:5

A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself.

This selfishness is not only part of me. It is the most living part.It is somehow transcending rather than by avoiding that selfishness that I can bring poise and balance into my life.

Glory of the world makes life meaningless. Glory of God fulfills it.

Relinquishing selfish wants, one is free to allow others to travel their own paths under the will of God. (18)

To some believers, being on the pill or using a condom is a nonverbal way of telling God to go to hell.

A compass calibrated by my greed is a rather shrewd way to legitimize my agenda. However, true north on a compass such as this is a straight line to the edge of a really big cliff.

We are truly human when we live for a purpose far above ourselves

I Am In Love With Myself, With My Heart.

The subsistence mentality of a person is a prison in which his personal joy is detained. If you want to live in joy, you don't live for yourself alone. Live for others too!

...We are truly human when we live for a purpose far above ourselves

Beware ! Heart is too small to feel happy but soul is too big to take glory

Happiness thinks only of itself.

Not a few millions of parents strongly hope that their own children will step in by instantly becoming their own parents’ foster parents, if and when the parents reach their second childhood.