Quotes about Selfishness

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure. Votes: 8

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. Votes: 8

Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness. Votes: 6

Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race. Votes: 6

Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love. Votes: 6

Selfishness, not love, is the actuating motive of the gallant. Votes: 6

Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it. Votes: 6

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness. Votes: 6

The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Votes: 6

Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others. Votes: 6

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself. Votes: 6

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. Votes: 6

To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature. Votes: 6

Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt. Votes: 4

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires. Votes: 4

Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others. Votes: 4

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package. Votes: 4

He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies. Votes: 4

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's. Votes: 4

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision. Votes: 4

The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit. Votes: 4

The man who lives by himself and for himself is likely to be corrupted by the company he keeps. Votes: 4

Selfishness is one of the more common faces of pride. 'How everything affects me' is the center of all that matters - self-conceit, self-pity, worldly self-fulfillment, self-gratification, and self-seeking. Votes: 4

I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction. Yet true happiness comes from a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved through the cultivation of altruism, of love and compassion and elimination of ignorance, selfishness and greed. Votes: 4

Selfishness is blind. Votes: 3

Selfishness has never been admired. Votes: 3

Selfishness and self-absorption are deadly charm-exterminators. Votes: 3

Selfishness is the only real atheism. Votes: 3

Selfishness keeps man blind through life. Votes: 3

Selfishness is unnecessary. War is obsolete. Votes: 3

Selfishness is the root of great evil. Votes: 3

Selfishness creates greed and greed destroys the soul. Votes: 3

Selfishness is a giant in destruction of relationships. Votes: 3

Selfishness at the expense of others happiness is demonism. Votes: 3

Selfishness Stops The Flow Of Blessings To You and Others Votes: 3

Selfishness alone is sufficient to bring apocalypse upon a nation. Votes: 3

Selfishness is the grand moving principle of nine-tenths of our actions. Votes: 3

Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles. Votes: 3

Selfishness is the root and source of all natural and moral evils. Votes: 3

Selfishness in art, as in other things, is sensibility kept at home. Votes: 3

Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion. Votes: 3

Selfishness, if but reasonably tempered with wisdom, is not such an evil trait. Votes: 3

Selfishness even binds many people, but blindly without having any liking for one another. Votes: 3

Selfishness beats altruism within groups. Altruistic groups beat selfish groups. Everything else is commentary. Votes: 3

Selfishness comes from poverty in the heart, from the belief that love is not abundant. Votes: 3

Selfishness is the unwillingness to give up your soul for the rehabilitation of your future. Votes: 3

Selfishness doesn't consist in a love to yourself, but in a big degree of such love. Votes: 3

Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism. Votes: 3

Selfishness draws men into a spiritual vacuum where, absorbed in self service, they shut out all others. Votes: 3

Love created this world, & the lack of it can kill it. Selfishness, self-absorption , arrogance & indifference never built anything. Votes: 3

Selfishness is the making a man's self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doeth. Votes: 3

Selfishness is one of the most destructive forces in man that is why life demands for its death. Votes: 3

The act of love . . . is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself. Votes: 3

Selfishness and separatation have led me to believe that the world is not my problem. I am the world. Votes: 3

Selfishness is the greatest challenge for a coach. Most players are more concerned with making themselves better than the team. Votes: 3

Selfishness is weakness. But loving and caring for others is a position of power beyond anything we can possibly imagine. Votes: 3

We must learn that to enjoy happiness we must conscientiously and continuously seek to spread happiness. Selfishness is suicidal to happiness. Votes: 3

Selfishness makes Christmas a burden; Love makes it a delight. The joy of brightening a child's heart creates the magic of Christmas. Votes: 3

Selfishness, control, and fear will break almost any relationship. Generosity, freedom, and love will create the most beautiful relationship: an ongoing romance. Votes: 3

Selfishness can be a virtue. Selfishness is essential to survival, and without survival we cannot protect those whom we love more than ourselves. Votes: 3

Selfishness is the bedrock on which all moral behavior starts and it can be immoral only when it conflicts with a higher moral imperative. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Without the protection of surliness and levity, all children would be crushed by the past"”the past of others, loaded onto their shoulders. Selfishness is their saving grace. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Selfishness is never so exquisitely selfish as when it is on its knees. ... Self turns what would otherwise be a pure and powerful prayer into a weak and ineffective one. Votes: 3

Thread of Selfishness in Web of Life.—Deuteronomy contains much instruction regarding what the law is to us, and the relation we shall sustain to God as we reverence and obey Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Selflessness is like waiting in a hospital In a badly-fitting suit on a cold wet morning. Selfishness is like listening to good jazz With drinks for further orders and a huge fire. Votes: 3

Selfishness of the stable or rigid sort is as a rule more bitterly resented than the more fickle variety, chiefly, no doubt, because, having more continuity and purpose, it is more formidable. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Selfishness, narcissism, being uncomfortable in your own skin, not feeling connected to the world around you, feeling dislocated from family and youth, having a strange relationship with your childhood - all those things feel really true to me. Votes: 3

Selfishness at the core is to think you have a special problem- a problem that God cannot deal with, that God didn't deal with at the cross. You do not have anything special that has been dealt out to you. Votes: 3

This laudable quality is commonly known by the name of Manners and Good-breeding, and consists in a Fashionable Habit, acquir'd by Precept and Example, of flattering the Pride and Selfishness of others, and concealing our own with Judgment and Dexterity. Votes: 3

Selfishness and demagoguery take advantage of liberty. The selfish hand constantly seeks to control government, and every increase of governmental power, even to meet just needs, furnishes opportunity for abuse and stimulates the effort to bend it to improper uses. Votes: 3

Declare your jihad on thirteen enemies you cannot see - Egoism, Arrogance, Conceit, Selfishness, Greed, Lust, Intolerance, Anger, Lying, Cheating, Gossiping and Slandering. If you can master and destroy them, then will be ready to fight the enemy you can see. Votes: 3

Fear says that what God has called me to is blatantly impossible. Selfishness says that the cost is unacceptably prohibitive. My humanity harbors other lesser agendas that seduce me to my own death. And I would be wise to believe none of it. Votes: 3

Childlessness doesn't make people selfish; selfishness makes people selfish. Votes: 2

Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak. Votes: 2

I have freedom. But freedom means total selfishness. It means nobody cares much what you do. Votes: 2

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy! Votes: 2

I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness. Votes: 2

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears. Votes: 2

I like to think that my arrogance, impetuosity, impatience, selfishness and greed are the qualities that make me the lovable chap I am. Votes: 2

The rising sun can dispel the darkness of night, but it cannot banish the blackness of malice, hatred, bigotry, and selfishness from the hearts of humanity. Votes: 2

The sin which is indulged to the greatest extent, which separates us from God and produces so many spiritual disorders, and which are contagious, is selfishness. Votes: 2

Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity. Votes: 2

We can pay the ecological debt by changing economic models, and by giving up luxury consumption, setting aside selfishness and individualism, and thinking about the people and the planet Earth. Votes: 2

The 20th century has been marked by cynicism, selfishness, greed, and the desire to please, all without changing the status quo. In the 21st century, we must resurrect solidarity and compassion. Votes: 2

I am confident that nobody... will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself. Votes: 2

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president. Votes: 2

Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to balance it against the altruism to which we should all aspire. It is a difficult balance to strike, but no definition of goodness can be complete without it. Votes: 2

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself. Votes: 2

I write about the power of trying, because I want to be okay with failing. I write about generosity because I battle selfishness. I write about joy because I know sorrow. I write about faith because I almost lost mine, and I know what it is to be broken and in need of redemption. I write about gratitude because I am thankful - for all of it. Votes: 2

The age of selfishness and greed is over. The age of kindness and generosity is underway. Votes: 1

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature-oppositi on to it is in his love of justice. Votes: 1

There is no such thing as low-cost Christianity. Following Jesus means swimming against the tide, renouncing evil and selfishness Votes: 1

And because of our selfishness, we will be condemned to the worst torture humankind ever invented for itself: loneliness. Votes: 1

What's the matter with the world? Why, there ain't nothing but one word wrong with everyone of us, and that's selfishness. Votes: 1

Of all influences that cause men to choose wrong, selfishness is undoubtedly the strongest. Where it is, the Spirit is not. Votes: 1

Judeo-Christian conservatism overcomes natural selfishness. Votes: 0

Happiness begins when selfishness ends. Votes: 0

Happiness begins where selfishness ends. Votes: 0

Lessen selfishness and restrain desires. Votes: 0

Generosity is the only legitimate selfishness. Votes: 0

The greatest productive force is human selfishness. Votes: 0

Satanism represents a form of controlled selfishness. Votes: 0

Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect Votes: 0

Service without humility is selfishness and egotism. Votes: 0

Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness. Votes: 0

Love . . . [is] a lack of personal selfishness. Votes: 0

Love is the selfishness of two persons. Votes: 0

The basis of all sin is selfishness. Votes: 0

Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self. Votes: 0

Suicide is the selfishness at its maxima expression Votes: 0

In short, selfishness is the opposite of love. Votes: 0

Never forget - happiness ends when selfishness begins. Votes: 0

Charity does not like arithmetic; selfishness worships it. Votes: 0

Maybe selflessness was only selfishness on another level. Votes: 0

Atheism exists only in coldness, selfishness, and baseness. Votes: 0

In Scouting you are combating the brooding of selfishness. Votes: 0

No universal selfishness can bring social good to all, Votes: 0

The Lord supplies our needs, but not our selfishness Votes: 0

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness. Votes: 0

Abortion and racism stem from the same poisonous root, selfishness. Votes: 0

Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame. Votes: 0

Cleanse your body and soul, removing malice, selfishness and desire. Votes: 0

To be saved is only this-salvation from our own selfishness. Votes: 0

Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness. Votes: 0

Greed and selfishness do seem to be central motivators of mankind. Votes: 0

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness. Votes: 0

Conceit is lovable and unconcealed ; vanity is supreme selfishness, usually hidden. Votes: 0

In a word, most bad attitudes are the result of selfishness. Votes: 0

Failing to hold someone accountable is ultimately an act of selfishness. Votes: 0

Take the selfishness out of anger and you're left with determination. Votes: 0

For Silicon Valley and its idols, innovation is the new selfishness. Votes: 0

We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness. Votes: 0

It is selfishness which is the cause of most of our misery. Votes: 0

Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination. Votes: 0

There is only one force stronger than selfishness, and that is stupidity. Votes: 0

When Christ's love fills our hearts, it puts selfishness on the run. Votes: 0

Let us reject violence and selfishness which could destroy our country's unity. Votes: 0

The nuclear family doesn't work. It's very destructive; it grew out of selfishness. Votes: 0

Possessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness. Votes: 0

There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through. Votes: 0

We can neither change nor overpower God's eternal suffrage against selfishness and meanness. Votes: 0

You fueled my obession, even encouraged it and your selfishness ruined my life Votes: 0

Amor deliria nervosa isn't a disease of love. It's a disease of selfishness. Votes: 0

What's wrong with selfishness and egotism? We live to die smiling, don't we? Votes: 0

Aggression is the first step on the slippery slope to selfishness and chaos. Votes: 0

Caring for our own hearts isn't selfishness; it's how we begin to love. Votes: 0

The Good Turn will educate the boy out of the groove of selfishness. Votes: 0

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible. Votes: 0

Lust, anger, attachment, greed, over pride be,Jealousy, selfishness, injustice, cruelty, ego truly;- 153 - Votes: 0

In this age of selfishness, selfless service is the only soap that truly purifies. Votes: 0

Love is the doorway through which the human soul passes from selfishness to service. Votes: 0

A gamester, as such, is the cool, calculating, essential spirit of concentrated, avaricious selfishness. Votes: 0

The greatest comforts and lasting peace are obtained, when one eradicates selfishness from within. Votes: 0

In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction. Votes: 0

We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed. Votes: 0

Camera but no selfies, which represent selfishness and egotism. Social media? Again: not really me. Votes: 0

Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation. Votes: 0

It's almost selfishness, taking care of your mental health. You can't just not do it. Votes: 0

The planet should not be used as a warehouse of resources to serve humanity's selfishness Votes: 0

If you could leave your selfishness, you would see how you've been torturing your soul. Votes: 0

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.Listen to it carefully. Votes: 0

Along with selfishness, anger is one of the most serious problems facing the world today Votes: 0

The force of selfishness is as inevitable and as calculable as the force of gravitation. Votes: 0

There are points in your life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary. Votes: 0

I'm just the mere shadow of my former selfishness. I crave the silhouette of your kiss. Votes: 0

It seems to me that there are two great enemies of peace - fear and selfishness. Votes: 0

The greatest surprise of human evolution may be that the highest form of selfishness is selflessness. Votes: 0

Our selfishness will condemn us to the worst suffering that we ourselves have invented - loneliness. Votes: 0

The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity. Votes: 0

This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural. Votes: 0

I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment. Votes: 0

While selfishness joins hands with no one of the virtues, benevolence is allied to them all. Votes: 0

Are you willing to nourish your heart with love; then your selfishness will starve to death. Votes: 0

Tenderness and respect-never selfishness-must be the guiding principles in the intimate relationship between husband and wife Votes: 0

The truth is that cupidity, selfishness, envy, malice, lust, vindictiveness, are constant vices of human nature. Votes: 0

So it is the fear, weakness, selfishness, and cowardice of onlookers that permit evil behavior to persist. Votes: 0

As you can see marriage is about putting away selfishness and taking on the concept of teamwork. Votes: 0

Like nature itself, modern economic life is driven by relentless competition and unbridled selfishness. Or is it? Votes: 0

There can be no Good Will. Will is always Evil; it is persecution to others or selfishness. Votes: 0

Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty. Votes: 0

It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise. Votes: 0

The attack on "selfishness" is an attack on man's self-esteem; to surrender one, is to surrender the other. Votes: 0

Getting enough of what you want without depriving anyone else is the ultimate act of selfishness and sanity. Votes: 0

[The seers call him wise] whose every attempt is free, without any desire for gain, without any selfishness. Votes: 0

Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life. Votes: 0

Love is the most ethically consistent experience, because selfishness and altruism no longer seem opposed or in conflict. Votes: 0

If we do not cling to riches, selfishness or greed-then I believe we are getting closer to God. Votes: 0

One of the worst things sin did for man was to make him selfish, for selfishness cannot love. Votes: 0

The highest form of selfishness is that of the man who is content to go to heaven alone. Votes: 0

It is folly to abstain all day long from food, but fail to abstain from sin and selfishness. Votes: 0

We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness behind. Votes: 0

Go to the cross of Christ, all you that want to be delivered from the power of selfishness. Votes: 0

Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness. Votes: 0

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery. Votes: 0

Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing. Votes: 0

Every divorce is the result of selfishness on the part of one or both parties to a marriage contract. Votes: 0

The hardest work you and I will ever do is to put off our selfishness. It is heavy lifting! Votes: 0

We are not slow at discovering the selfishness of others; for this plain reason--because it clashes with our own. Votes: 0

Most human beings know only the language of exploitation. Due to their selfishness, they are unable to consider others. Votes: 0

I don't think the revisionist historians are accurate. I think their agendas are clouded by selfishness and anger and rage. Votes: 0

When work is viewed only as a source of economic gain the centrality of work becomes self-indulgence, selfishness and egocentrism. Votes: 0

To practice Zen Buddhism is to train oneself to eliminate hatred, anger and selfishness and to develop loving-kindness towards all. Votes: 0

The vital Christian arouses opposition because he is a standing rebuke to the selfishness and sin of those around him. Votes: 0

One thing is clear to me, that no indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness. Votes: 0

There is a prodigious selfishness in dreams: they live perfectly deaf and invulnerable amid the cries of the real world. Votes: 0

As you help those in need, selfishness will fall away. And, without even noticing you will find your own fulfillment. Votes: 0

Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice. Votes: 0

In contrast to the path of selfishness, there is no room for road rage on the straight and narrow way. Votes: 0

Imagining that you are deep and complex, but others are simple, is one of the primary signs of malignant selfishness. Votes: 0

For me, I wanted to create something that's much more driven by a type of selfishness, a type of decadence. Votes: 0

Lust is raw selfishness. It's all about my wants, my needs, my pleasure. Most love songs are actually lust songs. Votes: 0

Nothing is more condemnable than selfishness. A man who thinks of himself alone is the most unlucky person of all. Votes: 0

National progress is the sum of individual industry, energy, and uprightness, as national decay is of individual idleness, selfishness, and vice. Votes: 0

Wisdom means that it gives you detachment, detachment from all that is selfishness, self-centredness, self-obsession, ego - all connected with self. Votes: 0

Take the selfishness out of this world and there would be more happiness than we should know what to do with. Votes: 0

How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! Supreme selfishness is inculcated upon him as his only duty. Votes: 0

Legal plunder has two roots: One, as we have just seen, is in human selfishness; the other is in false philanthropy. Votes: 0

Every time we give in to selfishness and say “No— to God, we spoil his loving plan for us. Votes: 0

Desire is the root of selfishness; clear your heart of desire and be selfless. Selflessness is the key to inner peace. Votes: 0

Gratitude free of compassion is selfishness. It is nothing more than being happy for what has been done to benefit you. Votes: 0

Our selfishness is so robust and many-clutching that, well encouraged, it easily devours all sustenance away from our poor little scruples. Votes: 0

One of the unseen benefits of having children is that they deliver you from your own selfishness. There's no going back. Votes: 0

The common trait of all evil is nothing other than egoism... Basically all human evil comes from what we call the selfishness. Votes: 0

Personal importance, or taking things personally, is the maximum expression of selfishness because we make the assumption that everything is about me. Votes: 0

Certain beliefs must accompany every action: One should act without selfishness, cultivate compassion for all living things, and develop respect for others. Votes: 0

WHAT IF we all treat other people as we wish to be treated? MORE happiness. LESS selfishness, crime, fraud, hatred, terrorism, wars... Votes: 0

Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society. Votes: 0

Competition, which is the instinct of selfishness, is another word for dissipation of energy, while combination is the secret of efficient production. Votes: 0

Some critics accuse capitalism of being a selfish system, but the selfishness is not in capitalism - it is in human nature. Votes: 0

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance. Votes: 0

Any opposition not based on rationalism or science or experience will one day or other, reveal the fraud, selfishness, lies and conspiracies. Votes: 0

Courage, I realised, was not the absence of fear: it was the absence of selfishness; putting someone else's interest before one's own. Votes: 0

The hatred and cruelty which have their source in selfishness are ineffectual things compared with the venom and ruthlessness born of selflessness. Votes: 0

We need leadership that can elevate religion and morality to their position of paramount importance and thus eliminate growing selfishness, immorality and materialism. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

So long as selfishness makes government needful at all, it must make every government corrupt, save one in which all men are represented. Votes: 0

Leadership means firmness, not harshness or bullying; understanding, not weakness; justice, not irresponsible freedom; humaneness, not intolerance; generosity, not selfishness; pride, not egotism. Votes: 0

Maybe a new religion will rise now. Maybe without it, man will crumble in cynicism and selfishness because he really needs his gods. Votes: 0

My desire for the part of Mammy was not dominated by selfishness for Hollywood has been good to me and I am grateful Votes: 0

It is an act of extreme selfishness for a married couple to refuse to have children when they are able to do so. Votes: 0

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either extreme egotism, selfishness, evil -- or else an absolute ignorance. Votes: 0

Suicide to them is an act of selfishness. Someone who is truly selfless does not think of himself often enough to desire death. Votes: 0

If there were more temple work done in the Church, there would be less of selfishness, less of contention, less of demeaning others. Votes: 0

When I was an animal I evolved through selfishness. Now that I am a man my evolution can be achieved only through self-sacrifice. Votes: 0

Fatherhood: How God blesses you out of your selfishness and floods your soul with love, all while reminding you how little you know... Votes: 0

Thorough selfishness destroys or paralyzes enjoyment. A heart made selfish by the contest for wealth is like a citadel stormed in war, utterly shattered. Votes: 0

Our enemies believed America was weak and materialistic, that we would splinter in fear and selfishness. They were as wrong as they are evil. Votes: 0

I feel now, that Arabia could easily be evangelized within the next thirty years if it were not for the wicked selfishness of Christians. Votes: 0

Gratitude: An imaginary emotion that rewards an imaginary behavior, altruism. Both imaginaries are false faces for selfishness, which is a real and honest emotion. Votes: 0

Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age; but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to join selfishness. Votes: 0

Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism. Votes: 0

Turkey, Japan do great work because they can keep under control their little personal selfishness, egoism, jealousy, etc. when they get down to work. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

It is to the credit of human nature that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Votes: 0

As long as greed is the root of all evil, there will not be peace.Get rid of selfishness and greed too will disappear. Votes: 0

The squirrel hoards nuts and the bee gathers honey, without knowing what they do, and they are thus provided for without selfishness or disgrace. Votes: 0

Democracy is threatened by the inertia of good people, by the selfishness of most people, and by the evil designs of a few people. Votes: 0

Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven. Votes: 0

By obliging men to turn their attention to other affairs than their own, it rubs off that private selfishness which is the rust of society. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I think schools, as they are now regulated, the hot-beds of vice and folly, and the knowledge of human nature supposedly attained there, merely cunning selfishness. Votes: 0

There is a need for everyone's brain to be imprinted with more self-enhancing impulses: the impulse to peace over violence, love over fear, compassion over selfishness. Votes: 0

Understand the suffering of worldly existence. Abandon its causes of ignorance and selfishness. Practice the path of meditation and compassion. Awaken from suffering within Great Peace. Votes: 0

Giving out of your surplus does not make you generous, it makes your selfishness more tolerable! Giving while you are lacking is what pleases the Lord." Votes: 0

It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures. Votes: 0

The first thing any coaching staff must do is weed out selfishness. No program can be successful with players who put themselves ahead of the team. Votes: 0

Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Very few people chose war. They chose selfishness and the result was war. Each of us, individually and nationally, must choose: total love or total war. Votes: 0

Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind because the truth lies elsewhere Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Let this be thy whole endeavor, this thy prayer, this thy desire,-that thou mayest be stripped of all selfishness, and with entire simplicity follow Jesus only. Votes: 0

There is no place for selfishness-and no place for fear! Do not be afraid, then, when love makes demands. Do not be afraid when love requires sacrifice Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

In one degree or another we all struggle with selfishness. Since it is so common, why worry about selfishness anyway? Because selfishness is really self-destruction in slow motion. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Why do I write? From selfishness. Because this state of liquefied, complex concentration, however faintly and dimly I'm able to perceive it, is the greatest pleasure I know. Votes: 0

Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive. Has any act of selfishness ever equalled the carnage perpetrated by disciples of altruism. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

If we read the Western Canon in order to form our social, political, or personal moral values, I firmly believe we will become monsters of selfishness and exploitation. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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?" Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

...short-sighted men who in their greed and selfishness will, if permitted, rob our country of half its charm by their reckless extermination of all useful and beautiful wild things... Votes: 0

Scientists have discovered that the small brave act of cooperating with another person, of choosing trust over cynicism, generosity over selfishness, makes the brain light up with quiet joy. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I can only say that I have acted upon my best convictions, without selfishness or malice, and that by the help of God I shall continue to do so. Votes: 0

I don't think there's any need to have essays advocating selfishness among human beings; I don't know what your impression has been, but some things require no further reinforcement. Votes: 0

Pulling weeds and planting seeds. That's the story of life. We are individual lots on which either weeds of selfishness or fruit of the Holy Spirit grows and flourishes. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness. Votes: 0

The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Undoubtedly there are, in connection with each of these things, cases of fraud, swindling, and other financial crimes; that is to say, the greed and selfishness of men are perpetual. Votes: 0

True patriots believe that freedom from responsibility is selfishness, freedom from sacrifice is cowardice, freedom from tolerance is prejudice, freedom from stewardship is exploitation, and freedom from compassion is cruelty. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Often, vegan advocates assume that a person's defensiveness is the result of selfishness or apathy, when in fact it is much more likely the result of systematic and intensive social conditioning. Votes: 0

The effect of capitalism is to steer human selfishness so that, through the invisible hand of competition, the energies of the capitalist produce the abundance from which the whole society benefits. Votes: 0

It is also important to guard against mistaking for good-nature what is properly good-humor,--a cheerful flow of spirits and easy temper not readily annoyed, which is compatible with great selfishness. Votes: 0

The more our hearts and minds are turned to assisting others less fortunate than we, the more we will avoid the spiritually cankering effects that result from greed, selfishness and overindulgence. Votes: 0

True happiness comes from having a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved by cultivating altruism, love and compassion, and by eliminating anger, selfishness and greed. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Our world is drowning in a sea of self-centeredness. You can make yourself quite unique right away by leaving this ocean of selfishness and choosing to be curious about other people. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When leisure is a selfish luxury, its very activity, when it stirs, is apt to be only a kind of indolence taking exercise, that it may the better digest its selfishness. Votes: 0

The myth of hell represents all the meanness, all the revenge, all the selfishness, all the cruelty, all the hatred, all the infamy of which the heart of man is capable. Votes: 0

Yes, forget your weakness, whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism, it is selfishness after. all, for it is a dwelling on self. Forget your weakness; and remember your strength. Votes: 0

PERSONAL IMPORTANCE or taking things personally, is an expression of SELFISHNESS because we make the assumption that everything is about ME!! NOTHING PEOPLE DO IS BECAUSE OF YOU!! IT'S BECAUSE OF THEMSELVES!! Votes: 0

The sun of truth rises in the human being and illuminates his world when he lifts his mind from the darkness of ignorance and selfishness into the light of wisdom and altruism Votes: 0

The reason why wicked men and devils hate God is, because they see Him in relation to themselves. Their hearts rise up in rebellion, because they see Him opposed to their selfishness. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

... we performers are monsters. We are a totally different, far-out race of people. I totally and completely admit, with no qualmsat all, my egomania, my selfishness, coupled with a really magnificent voice. Votes: 0

If your prayer is selfish, the answer will be something that will rebuke your selfishness. You may not recognize it as having come at all, but it is sure to be there. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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.. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

The inescapable fact is that when we build a society based on greed, selfishness, and ruthless competition, the fruits we can expect to reap are economic insecurity at home and international discord abroad. Votes: 0

I think for anyone who follows the 'artistic life,' a certain amount of selfishness and self-involvement is part of the package. You're probably already disregarding a certain material life you could have. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Silence...leads us to make a gift of self rather than a selfishness that has been gift-wrapped ...Silence does not mean running away but rather recollecting ourselves in the open space of God. Votes: 0

Leave the quarters of the close-fisted selfishness and live in the edifice of an open-handed generosity. God gives to you, so you can share when it's required of you! Give out; conquer greed! Votes: 0

If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn anyone for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper roots for its causes than we have knowledge of. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

As a father now, I wouldn't do what my dad did, because it left me feeling emotionally unstable as a kid. But he didn't do the things he did out of selfishness or malice. Votes: 0

There was no such thing as luck. Luck was a word idiots used to explain the consequences of their own rashness, and selfishness, and stupidity. More often than not bad luck meant bad plans. Votes: 0

We found evolution will punish you if you're selfish and mean. For a short time and against a specific set of opponents, some selfish organisms may come out ahead. But selfishness isn't evolutionarily sustainable. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Don't we forgive everything of a lover? We forgive selfishness, desire, guile. As long as we are the motive for it...There are some European words you can never translate properly into another language. Votes: 0

Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness "“ all of them due to the offenders' ignorance of what is good or evil. Votes: 0

According to the first image of international relations, the locus of the important causes of war is found in the nature and behavior of man. Wars result from selfishness, from misdirected aggressive impulses, from stupidity. Votes: 0

Having kids is a full-time job. And I don't know any woman who isn't constantly fighting between the exquisite selfishness required to be an artist and this exquisite selflessness that's required to be a parent. Votes: 0

Not perhaps until later life, until the follies, passions, and selfishness of youth have died out, do we . . . recognize the the inestimable blessing, the responsibility awful as sweet, of possessing or of being a friend. Votes: 0

Deeds that seemed unimportant at the time would prove to have been momentous; a tiny act of selfishness and unkindness or, conversely, an unconsidered act of generosity would become the measure of a human life Votes: 0

The despairing are always being urged to abstain from selfishness, to think of others first. This seems unfair. Why load them with responsibility for the welfare of others, when their own already weighs them down?" Votes: 0

You are chosen to be faithful women of God in our day, to stand above pettiness, gossip, selfishness, lewdness, and all other forms of ungodliness. Recognize your divine birthright as daughters of our Heavenly Father. Votes: 0

A trustworthy marriage has weathered temptation and anger and jealousy, resentment, self-righteousness and a little bit of selfishness. When you get over and get through that, then maybe you can see the light to love. Votes: 0

I have observed that the prosperity or misery of each people is in direct proportion to its liberties or its prejudices and, accordingly, to the sacrifices or the selfishness of its forefathers. -Juan Crisostomo Ibarra Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Anyone who recognizes this regime [Israel] because of the pressure of the World oppressor, or because of naiveté or selfishness, will be eternally disgraced and will burn in the fury of the Islamic nations. Votes: 0

Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last. Votes: 0

You must learn to meditate and stop your thoughts. You must overcome all egotism and selfishness by serving others. You must cleanse your mind so that enlightenment will find a happy place to reside there. Votes: 0

Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express. Votes: 0

Empty me of the selfishness inside, every vain ambition and the poison of my pride, and any foolish thing my heart holds to, Lord empty me of me so I can be filled with you. Votes: 0

The heart of our problem is the selfishness in our heart. The human spirit soars with hope when lifted by an encouraging word. The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: for it is perhaps your own coldness and avarice and mediocrity and materialism and selfishness that have chilled his faith. Votes: 0

There is a big, beautiful world that could be destroyed by selfishness and foolishness. We musicians have it within our power to help save it. In a small way, every single one of us counts. Votes: 0

If you seek in the spirit of selfishness, to grasp all as your own, you shall lose all, and be driven out of the world, at last, naked and forlorn, to everlasting poverty and contempt. Votes: 0

The selfishness of an age that has devoted itself to the mere cult of pleasure has tainted the whole human race with an error that makes all our acts more or less lies against God. Votes: 0

The worthless and offensive members of society, whose existence is a social pest, invariably think themselves the most ill-used people alive, and never get over their astonishment at the ingratitude and selfishness of their contemporaries. Votes: 0