Selfishness Quotes

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

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.

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

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

It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on Earth at a 'higher standard of living than any have ever known.' It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary and henceforth unrationalizable as mandated by survival.

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

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

The absolute desire of 'having more' encourages the selfishness that destroys communal bonds among the children of God. It does so because the idolatry of riches prevents the majority from sharing the goods that the Creator has made for all, and in the all-possessing minority it produces an exaggerated pleasure in these goods.

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

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

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

To feel much for others and little for ourselves, that to restrain our selfish, and to indulge our benevolent affections, constitutes the perfection of human nature.

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

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

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.

Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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