Best 557 quotes in «selfishness quotes» category

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.

Being both more systematically brutal than chimps and more empathetic than bonobos, we are by far the most bipolar ape. Our societies are never completely peaceful, never completely competitive, never ruled by sheer selfishness, and never perfectly moral.

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.

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

Childlessness doesn't make people selfish; selfishness makes people selfish.

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

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

Being stubborn has helped, being selfish is not a bad thing.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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?

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.

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

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

If we knew that god exists, such knowledge would make morality impossible. For, if we acted morally from fear or fright, or confident of a reward, then this would not be moral. It would be enlightened selfishness.

If faith is lacking, it is because there is too much selfishness, too much concern for personal gain. For faith to be true, it has to be generous and loving. Love and faith go together, they complete each other.

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.

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

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

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

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.

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

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

It is very natural for a young friend and a young lover to think the persons they love have nothing to do but to please them.

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

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.

Lessen selfishness and restrain desires.

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

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.

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

Love is the selfishness of two persons.

Many a good intention dies from inattention. If, through carelessness or indolence, or selfishness, a good intention is not put into effect, we have lost an opportunity, demoralized ourselves, and stolen from the pile of possible good. To be born and not fed, is to perish. To launch a ship and neglect it is to lose it. To have a talent and bury it, is to be a "wicked and slothful servant." For in the end we shall be judged, not alone by what we have done, but by what we could have done.

Love . . . [is] a lack of personal selfishness.

My view is my entire life has been shaped by giving when I didn't have it. Some idiot who's wealthy and doesn't give, they'll rot in their own selfishness. I'm not worried about them. What I'm really interested in is the day-to-day person, human beings who want to go to another level of their life.

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

Next to the very young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.

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

No universal selfishness can bring social good to all.

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

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

Mundus vult decipi'—the world wants to be deceived. To live without deception presupposes standards beyond the reach of most people whose existence is largely shaped by compromise, evasion and mutual accommodation. Could they face their weakness, their vanity and selfishness, without a mask?

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

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

Only God can give us a selfless love for others, as the Holy Spirit changes us from within. This is one reason we must receive Christ, for apart from His Spirit we can never be freed from the chains of selfishness, jealousy, and indifference. Will others see Christ's love in your life today?

Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.

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

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