Selfishness Quotes

The greatest comforts and lasting peace are obtained, when one eradicates selfishness from within.

Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to.

I'm just the mere shadow of my former selfishness. I crave the silhouette of your kiss.

Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism.

It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a 'higher standard of living than any have ever known.' It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary and henceforth unrationalizable as mandated by survival.

Any opposition not based on rationalism or science or experience will one day or other, reveal the fraud, selfishness, lies and conspiracies.

We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.

The absolute desire of 'having more' encourages the selfishness that destroys communal bonds among the children of God. It does so because the idolatry of riches prevents the majority from sharing the goods that the Creator has made for all, and in the all-possessing minority it produces an exaggerated pleasure in these goods.

The sin which is indulged to the greatest extent, and which separates us from God and produces so many contagious spiritual disorders, is selfishness.

The highest form of selfishness is that of the man who is content to go to heaven alone.

Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.

To feel much for others and little for ourselves, that to restrain our selfish, and to indulge our benevolent affections, constitutes the perfection of human nature.

Caring for our own hearts isn't selfishness; it's how we begin to love.

The hardest work you and I will ever do is to put off our selfishness. It is heavy lifting!

Every moral act of love, of mercy, and of sacrifice brings to pass the end of the world where hatred, cruelty, and selfishness reign supreme.

Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame.

If we do not cling to riches, selfishness or greed - then I believe we are getting closer to God.

Let us reject violence and selfishness which could destroy our country's unity.

The common trait of all evil is nothing other than egoism... Basically all human evil comes from what we call the selfishness.

Failing to hold someone accountable is ultimately an act of selfishness.

It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves.

There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of, before I became President of the U.S.

Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our good qualities, and to overlook or extenuate our defects.

Before man can be free, and equal, and truly wise, he must cast aside the chains of habit and superstition; he must strip sensuality of its pomp, and selfishness of its excuses, and contemplate actions and objects as they really are.

It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

At no time and in no circumstances should a Communist place his personal interests first; he should subordinate them to the interests of the nation and of the masses. Hence, selfishness, slacking, corruption, seeking the limelight, and so on, are most contemptible, while selflessness, working with all one's energy, whole-hearted devotion to public duty, and quiet hard work will command respect.

I will waste not even a precious second today in anger or hate or jealousy or selfishness. I know that the seeds I sow I will harvest, because every action, good or bad, is always followed by an equal reaction. I will plant only good seeds this day.

The State must act as the guardian of a millennial future in the face of which the wishes and the selfishness of the individual must appear as nothing and submit.

When Christ's love fills our hearts, it puts selfishness on the run.

Love is the doorway through which the human soul passes from selfishness to service.

I learned that no man in God's wide earth is either willing or able to help any other man.

Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.

Thus worshiping, serving, studying, praying, each in its own way squeezes selfishness out of us; pushes aside our preoccupations with the things of the world.

Go to the cross of Christ, all you that want to be delivered from the power of selfishness.

Be not in the desire of thine own ease.

You have to be selfish to be an actor.

He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.

No universal selfishness can bring social good to all.

It is not up to us to particularize, but rather to deduce that the concepts of human rights originated from the divine influence because, as far as we are concerned, we are compelled to recognize our slow individual evolution from fierce selfishness toward a universal love, from the iniquity toward true justice.

These small things - nutrition, place, climate, recreation, the whole casuistry of selfishness - are inconceivably more important than everything one has taken to be important so far.

So it is the fear, weakness, selfishness, and cowardice of onlookers that permit evil behavior to persist.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

If you could leave your selfishness, you would see how you've been torturing your soul.

And because of our selfishness, we will be condemned to the worst torture humankind ever invented for itself: loneliness.

Never forget - happiness ends when selfishness begins.

Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself.

Love is the most ethically consistent experience, because selfishness and altruism no longer seem opposed or in conflict.

Those who blamed aggression formed Amity.’… ‘Those who blamed ignorance became the Erudite.’… ‘Those who blamed duplicity created Candor.’… ‘Those who blamed selfishness made Abnegation.’… ‘And those who blamed cowardice were the Dauntless.

When marriage exposes a person's selfishness and sins it's doing what it is meant to do: bringing our sins and wounds to light so we can recognize them, confess them, and begin the healing process.