Selfishness Quotations | Page 3

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

Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.

I lived with the only continuity, day to day, of the me-me-me.

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?

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Happiness begins when selfishness ends.

By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature but as a robber.

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.

Selfishness at the expense of others happiness is demonism.

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

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

Selfishness is blind.

Service without humility is selfishness and egotism.

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.

Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.

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.

Through the higher love the whole life of man is to be elevated from temporal selfishness to the spring of all love, to God: man will again be master over nature by abiding in God and lifting her up to God.

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

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

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

Following Jesus means taking up one's own cross to accompany him on his path, an uncomfortable path that is not one of success or earthly glory, but which leads to true freedom, the freedom from selfishness and sin.

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.

We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. (Despite) all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world, the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether... The effect of the indulgence of this human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.

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.

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

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.

Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.

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.

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

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

The greatest productive force is human selfishness.

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

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

No man at bottom means injustice; it is always for some obscure distorted image of a right that he contends: an obscure image diffracted, exaggerated, in the wonderfulest way by natural dimness and selfishness; getting tenfold more diffracted by exasperation of contest, till at length it become all but irrecognis-able.

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

One of the bitter ironies of the 20th century was that communism, which began as an egalitarian doctrine accusing capitalism of selfishness and calloused sacrifices of others, became in power a system whose selfishness and callousness toward others made the sins of capitalism pale.

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

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