Selfishness Quotes - Page 4

In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.

Take the selfishness out of anger and you're left with determination.

One of the bitter ironies of the 20th century was that communism, which began as an egalitarian doctrine accusing capitalism of selfishness and calloused sacrifices of others, became in power a system whose selfishness and callousness toward others made the sins of capitalism pale.

There was no such thing as luck. Luck was a word idiots used to explain the consequences of their own rashness, and selfishness, and stupidity. More often than not bad luck meant bad plans.

O my God, how true it is that we may have of Thy gifts and yet may be full of ourselves!

My desire for the part of Mammy was not dominated by selfishness for Hollywood has been good to me and I am grateful

No selfishness or insecurity kept him from seeing the full extent of her goodness, as it so often does with the rest of us. That kind of love may only be possible in Abnegation. I do not know.

Unselfishness is more paying, only people have not the patience to practice it.

There is a big, beautiful world that could be destroyed by selfishness and foolishness. We musicians have it without power to save it. In a small way, every single one of us counts.

And sometimes it's the very otherness of a stranger, someone who doesn't belong to our ethnic or ideological or religious group, an otherness that can repel us initially, but which can jerk us out of our habitual selfishness, and give us intonations of that sacred otherness, which is God.

Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.

The greatest productive force is human selfishness.

The spirit of our American radicalism is destructive and aimless; it is not loving; it has no ulterior and divine ends; but is destructive only out of hatred and selfishness.

Selfishness at the expense of others happiness is demonism.

Selfishness can be a virtue. Selfishness is essential to survival, and without survival we cannot protect those whom we love more than ourselves.

Selfishness has never been admired.

Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.

Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice.

The planet should not be used as a warehouse of resources to serve humanity's selfishness

Personal importance, or taking things personally, is the maximum expression of selfishness because we make the assumption that everything is about me.

Camera but no selfies, which represent selfishness and egotism. Social media? Again: not really me.

Many a good intention dies from inattention. If, through carelessness or indolence, or selfishness, a good intention is not put into effect, we have lost an opportunity, demoralized ourselves, and stolen from the pile of possible good. To be born and not fed, is to perish. To launch a ship and neglect it is to lose it. To have a talent and bury it, is to be a "wicked and slothful servant." For in the end we shall be judged, not alone by what we have done, but by what we could have done.

Take the selfishness out of this world and there would be more happiness than we should know what to do with.

Childlessness doesn't make people selfish; selfishness makes people selfish.

Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.