Selfishness Quotes - Page 8

PERSONAL IMPORTANCE or taking things personally, is an expression of SELFISHNESS because we make the assumption that everything is about ME!! NOTHING PEOPLE DO IS BECAUSE OF YOU!! IT'S BECAUSE OF THEMSELVES!!

I was surprised by how much I like being a father; surprised at what a decent father I am, because I was afraid I wouldn't be able to dump my selfishness.

As you help those in need, selfishness will fall away. And, without even noticing you will find your own fulfillment.

Fatherhood: How God blesses you out of your selfishness and floods your soul with love, all while reminding you how little you know.

Under a socialist mode of production all personal incentives which selfishness provides under capitalism are removed, and a premium is put upon laziness and negligence. Whereas in a capitalist society selfishness incites everyone to the utmost diligence, in a socialist society it makes for inertia and laxity.

There are some tempers--how shall I describe them--formed either of such impenetrable matter, or wrought up by habitual selfishness to such an utter insensibility of what becomes of the fortunes of their fellow-creatures, as if they were not partakers of the same nature, or had no lot or connection at all with the species.

Deeds that seemed unimportant at the time would prove to have been momentous; a tiny act of selfishness and unkindness or, conversely, an unconsidered act of generosity would become the measure of a human life.

What can one possibly introduce into a mind that is already full, and full of itself?

If you seek in the spirit of selfishness, to grasp all as your own, you shall lose all, and be driven out of the world, at last, naked and forlorn, to everlasting poverty and contempt.

Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.

We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness behind.

There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.

To be saved is only this-salvation from our own selfishness.

In the North the first words are, Help me; in the South, Love me.

We wish to constitute all the happiness, or, if that cannot be, the misery of the one we love.

We can neither change nor overpower God's eternal suffrage against selfishness and meanness.

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

A gamester, as such, is the cool, calculating, essential spirit of concentrated, avaricious selfishness.

Our infinite obligations to God do not fill our hearts half as much as a petty uneasiness of our own; nor His infinite perfections as much as our smallest wants.

It is selfishness which is the cause of most of our misery.

We need leadership that can elevate religion and morality to their position of paramount importance and thus eliminate growing selfishness, immorality and materialism.

The fawning courtier and the surly squire often mean the same thing,--each his own interest.

Being both more systematically brutal than chimps and more empathetic than bonobos, we are by far the most bipolar ape. Our societies are never completely peaceful, never completely competitive, never ruled by sheer selfishness, and never perfectly moral.

Selfishness at the core is to think you have a special problem- a problem that God cannot deal with, that God didn’t deal with at the cross. You do not have anything special that has been dealt out to you.

The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness or sinister interest.