Best 557 quotes in «selfishness quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Lessen selfishness and restrain desires.

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

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

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.

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?

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

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.

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

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

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

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

No universal selfishness can bring social good to all.

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.

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?

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

Real love, no matter how unworthy the object, is a glorious adventure. It bursts the shackles of selfishness. One's world is bigger, broader; one's sympathies are amazingly more tender. No matter what the result, if you haven't really loved, you haven't really lived.

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.

Selfishness and self-absorption are deadly charm-exterminators.

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

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.

Selfishness is unnecessary. War is obsolete.

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

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.

Since, according to me, your life is going to be a gradual process of becoming kinder and more loving: Hurry up. Speed it along. Start right now. There’s a confusion in each of us, a sickness, really: selfishness. But there’s also a cure. So be a good and proactive and even somewhat desperate patient on your own behalf - seek out the most efficacious anti-selfishness medicines, energetically, for the rest of your life.

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

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

The gospel of licentiousness, of selfishness, of blaming all the difficulties of life on external factors - these are the things that are killing people today in ways that the slave whips and the overseers couldn't.

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.

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.

stinginess seemed instinctive to him. Darwinian even. He hadn't gotten to his current size by sharing.

The abortionist I worked for, he's a very greedy man, a selfish man.

The basis of all sin is selfishness.

The fawning courtier and the surly squire often mean the same thing,--each his own interest.

The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade.

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.

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

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