Selfishness Quotes - Page 11

Turkey, Japan do great work because they can keep under control their little personal selfishness, egoism, jealousy, etc. when they get down to work.

I don't think the revisionist historians are accurate. I think their agendas are clouded by selfishness and anger and rage.

Marriage is a state that is attended with so much care and trouble, that it is a kind of faulty indulgence and selfishness to livesingle, in order to avoid the difficulties it is attended with.

Lust is raw selfishness. It's all about my wants, my needs, my pleasure. Most love songs are actually lust songs.

Selfishness is the root of great evil.

Greed and selfishness do seem to be central motivators of mankind.

I have written a memoir here and there, and that takes its own form of selfishness and courage. However, generally speaking, I have no interest in writing about my own life or intruding in the privacy of those around me.

You fueled my obession, even encouraged it and your selfishness ruined my life

Selfishness is much more than an ordinary problem because it activates all the cardinal sins! It is the detonator in the breaking of the Ten Commandments.

I'm really interested in the difference between selfishness and generosity. It confuses me to no end because sometimes it all just feels like pure indulgence on my part.

Conceit is lovable and unconcealed ; vanity is supreme selfishness, usually hidden.

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.

My best quality is that I'm a big hearted person. I'm resilient, too. My worst quality is selfishness, although everyone is guilty of that to an extent. Everyone should be, I think - you need to respect yourself.

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

Maybe selflessness was only selfishness on another level.

Anyone who recognizes this regime [Israel] because of the pressure of the World oppressor, or because of naiveté or selfishness, will be eternally disgraced and will burn in the fury of the Islamic nations.

Selfishness is blind.

Men's moral principles are weak enough without their being made subordinate to selfishness; and their selfishness is quite active enough, without any such effort as Christianity makes to constitute it the mainspring of all their conduct.

I have freedom. But freedom means total selfishness. It means nobody cares much what you do.

Amor deliria nervosa isn't a disease of love. It's a disease of selfishness.

For me, I wanted to create something that's much more driven by a type of selfishness, a type of decadence.

The only care That I shall share Shall be the care of others, And on the road I'll halve the load Of overburdened brothers. I rather guess It's selfishness That drives me to such actions, For in this plan I find I can Forget my own distractions.

We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed in feeling sorry for ourselves) behind. If we leave a place and take our selfishness with us, the cycle of problems starts all over again no matter where we go. But if we leave our selfishness behind, no matter where we are, things start to improve.

I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment.

As you can see marriage is about putting away selfishness and taking on the concept of teamwork.