Selfishness Quotes - Page 2

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

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

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.

At no time and in no circumstances should a Communist place his personal interests first; he should subordinate them to the interests of the nation and of the masses. Hence, selfishness, slacking, corruption, seeking the limelight, and so on, are most contemptible, while selflessness, working with all one's energy, whole-hearted devotion to public duty, and quiet hard work will command respect.

I learned that no man in God's wide earth is either willing or able to help any other man.

Love is the doorway through which the human soul passes from selfishness to service.

The State must act as the guardian of a millennial future in the face of which the wishes and the selfishness of the individual must appear as nothing and submit.

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.

Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.

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

Go to the cross of Christ, all you that want to be delivered from the power of selfishness.

Be not in the desire of thine own ease.

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

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.

You have to be selfish to be an actor.

No universal selfishness can bring social good to all.

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

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

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

It is not up to us to particularize, but rather to deduce that the concepts of human rights originated from the divine influence because, as far as we are concerned, we are compelled to recognize our slow individual evolution from fierce selfishness toward a universal love, from the iniquity toward true justice.

Those who blamed aggression formed Amity.’… ‘Those who blamed ignorance became the Erudite.’… ‘Those who blamed duplicity created Candor.’… ‘Those who blamed selfishness made Abnegation.’… ‘And those who blamed cowardice were the Dauntless.

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

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.

Never forget - happiness ends when selfishness begins.

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