Selfishness Quotes - Page 6

stinginess seemed instinctive to him. Darwinian even. He hadn't gotten to his current size by sharing.

Lessen selfishness and restrain desires.

There are points in your life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary.

Be, as many now are, luxurious to yourself, parsimonious to your friends. [Lat., Esto, ut nunc multi, dives tibi pauper amicis.]

The organization and constant onward sweep of this movement exemplifies the resentment of the many toward the selfishness, greed and the neglect of the few.

This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.

A person who can really be called an unselfish person, has no place in life.

Less, less of self each day, And more, my God, of Thee!

Our selfishness is so robust and many-clutching that, well encouraged, it easily devours all sustenance away from our poor little scruples.

Wars come from egotism and selfishness. Every macrocosmic or world war has its origin in microcosmic wars going on inside millions and millions of individuals.

Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the last.

It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

The man who lives by himself and for himself is likely to be corrupted by the company he keeps.

The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.

Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.

Sordid selfishness doth contract and narrow our benevolence, and cause us, like serpents, to infold ourselves within ourselves, and to turn out our stings to the entire world besides.

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

A gene might be able to assist replicas of itself that are sitting in other bodies. If so, this would appear as individual altruism but it would be brought about by gene selfishness.

The worthless and offensive members of society, whose existence is a social pest, invariably think themselves the most ill-used people alive, and never get over their astonishment at the ingratitude and selfishness of their contemporaries.

Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.

Like nature itself, modern economic life is driven by relentless competition and unbridled selfishness. Or is it?

It is to the credit of human nature that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates.

You shouldn't punish others for your own choices.

The fact is that sin is the most unmanly thing in God's world. You never were made for sin and selfishness. You were made for love and obedience.

Selfishness is the only real atheism.