Selfishness Quotes - Page 10

Selfishness is the root and source of all natural and moral evils.

My self-absorption warms me; yours boils me.

Charity does not like arithmetic; selfishness worships it.

Service without humility is selfishness and egotism.

What's wrong with selfishness and egotism? We live to die smiling, don't we?

The mere absorption of facts and truths is so exclusively an individual affair that it tends very naturally to pass into selfishness. There is no obvious social motive for the acquirement of mere learning, there is no clear social gain in success thereat.

We live in a world of transgressions and selfishness, and no pictures that represent us otherwise can be true; though happily for human nature, gleamings of that pure spirit in whose likeness man has been fashioned, are to be seen, relieving its deformities, and mitigating, if not excusing its crimes.

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

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

There is only one force stronger than selfishness, and that is stupidity.

There is an ill-breeding to which, whatever our rank and nature, we are almost equally sensitive, the ill-breeding that comes from want of consideration for others.

Romance is alive and well in America, but the 50 percent who can't make it work fail because of selfishness. It gets down to that. You can't oversimplify it because every situation is so complex.

By developing a sense of respect for others and a concern for their welfare, we reduce our own selfishness, which is the source of all problems, and enhance our sense of kindness, which is a natural source of goodness.

We must learn that to enjoy happiness we must conscientiously and continuously seek to spread happiness. Selfishness is suicidal to happiness.

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

Need drives men to envy as fullness drives them to selfishness.

If I had my mouth, I would bite; if I had my liberty, I would do my liking. In the meantime, let me be that I am, and seek not toalter me.

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

I knew by the way he looked at her that he held her in a higher regard than he held even himself. No selfishness or insecurity kept him from seeing the full extent of her goodeness, as it so often does with the rest of us. That kind of love may only be possible in Abnegation. I do not know. My father: Erudite-born, Abnegation-grown. He often found it difficult to live up to the demands of his chosen faction, just as I did. But he tried, and he knew true selflessness when he saw it.

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.

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.

I am always nearest to myself," says the Latin proverb.

It will require more than a few hours of fasting and prayer to cast out such demons as selfishness, worldliness, and unbelief. Repentance, to be of any avail, must work a change of heart and of conduct.

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

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