Selfishness Quotes - Page 3

If faith is lacking, it is because there is too much selfishness, too much concern for personal gain. For faith to be true, it has to be generous and loving. Love and faith go together, they complete each other.

Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.

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

The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.

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

The Civilized… murder their children by producing too many of them without being able to provide for their well-being. Morality or theories of false virtue stimulate them to manufacture cannon fodder, anthills of conscripts who are forced to sell themselves out of poverty. This improvident paternity is a false virtue, the selfishness of pleasure.

In short, selfishness is the opposite of love.

Imagining that you are deep and complex, but others are simple, is one of the primary signs of malignant selfishness.

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

How easy it is for generous sentiments, high courtesy, and chivalrous courage to lose their influence beneath the chilling blight of selfishness, and to exhibit to the world a man who was great in all the minor attributes of character, but who was found wanting when it became necessary to prove how much principle is superior to policy.

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

Adultery is a meanness and a stealing, a taking away from someone what should be theirs, a great selfishness, and surrounded and guarded by lies lest it should be found out. And out of meanness and selfishness and lying flow love and joy and peace beyond anything that can be imagined.

Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.

Selfishness keeps man blind through life.

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

Satanism represents a form of controlled selfishness.

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

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

In a word, most bad attitudes are the result of selfishness.

If we knew that god exists, such knowledge would make morality impossible. For, if we acted morally from fear or fright, or confident of a reward, then this would not be moral. It would be enlightened selfishness.

There is simply no dignified way for a woman to live alone. Oh, she can get along financially perhaps (though not nearly as well as a man), but emotionally she is never left in peace. Her friends, her family, her fellow workers never let her forget that her husbandlessness, her childlessness - her selfishness, in short - is a reproach to the American way of life.

Pulling weeds and planting seeds. That's the story of life. We are individual lots on which either weeds of selfishness or fruit of the Holy Spirit grows and flourishes.

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

The Lord supplies our needs, but not our selfishness

Generosity is the only legitimate selfishness.