Selfishness Quotes

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.

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

Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Be not in the desire of thine own ease.

As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed and selfishness prevent that and there is always one bad apple in every barrel.

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

You have to be selfish to be an actor.

No universal selfishness can bring social good to all.

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

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.

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.

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

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

I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US that thinks Americans are not yet selfish enough.

The fun, joy, and humor dry up in a relationship when one of the partners is swimming in gin. To my way of thinking, it is selfishness personified to see life through the bottom of a liquor bottle.

Your love is as stable as you are: It's not about how good a person makes you feel, but rather what good you can do for them.

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

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

Never forget - happiness ends when selfishness begins.

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

People don't want other people to be people.

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

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

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.

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

Men are not against you, they are merely for themselves.

Happiness begins where selfishness ends.

When we don’t put the brakes on our self-absorption, we have nothing stopping us from total self-destruction. We become the fruits of our actions.

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

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

A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.

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.

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

In short, selfishness is the opposite of love.

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

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

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.

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.

Satanism represents a form of controlled selfishness.

Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.

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

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

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