Selfishness Quotes - Page 7

One thing is clear to me, that no indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness.

He who does most to cure woman of her weakness, her frivolity, and her servility will likewise at the same stroke do most to cure man of his brutality, his selfishness and his sensuality.

Maternity is on the face of it an unsociable experience. The selfishness that a woman has learned to stifle or to dissemble where she alone is concerned, blooms freely and unashamed on behalf of her offspring.

Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice.

That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it. Every one thinks chiefly of his own, hardly at all of the common interest; and only when he is himself concerned as an individual. For besides other considerations, everybody is more inclined to neglect the duty which he expects another to fulfill.

There can be no Good Will. Will is always Evil; it is persecution to others or selfishness.

History of Ireland--lawlessness and turbulency, robbery and oppression, hatred and revenge, blind selfishness everywhere--no principle, no heroism. What can be done with it?

Selfishness in art, as in other things, is sensibility kept at home.

In Scouting you are combating the brooding of selfishness.

Economics is sometimes associated with the study and defense of selfishness and material inequality, but it has an egalitarian and civil libertarian core that should be celebrated.

It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself.

Every divorce is the result of selfishness on the part of one or both parties to a marriage contract.

Now is the time to set your life's goals. Now is the time to set your standards firmly and then hold to them throughout your life.

It is an act of extreme selfishness for a married couple to refuse to have children when they are able to do so.

It is folly to abstain all day long from food, but fail to abstain from sin and selfishness.

Gratitude: An imaginary emotion that rewards an imaginary behavior, altruism. Both imaginaries are false faces for selfishness, which is a real and honest emotion.

Selfishness is when we pursue gain at the expense of others. But God doesn’t have a limited number of treasures to distribute. When you store up treasures for yourself in heaven, it doesn’t reduce the treasures available to others. In fact, it is by serving God and others that we store up heavenly treasures. Everyone gains; no one loses.

Selfishness is unnecessary. War is obsolete.

Following Jesus means taking up one's own cross to accompany him on his path, an uncomfortable path that is not one of success or earthly glory, but which leads to true freedom, the freedom from selfishness and sin.

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

Every time we give in to selfishness and say “No” to God, we spoil his loving plan for us.

It is to be doubted whether he will ever find the way to heaven who desires to go thither alone.

While selfishness joins hands with no one of the virtues, benevolence is allied to them all.

We had one or another form of state capitalism during an extremely brief period of human history, which tells us essentially nothing about human nature. If you look at human societies and human interactions, you can find anything. You find selfishness, you find altruism, you find sympathy.

If you think about yourself then you've lost sight of the ball.