Selfishness Quotes
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I learned that no man in God's wide earth is either willing or able to help any other man.
— Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
A selfless act out of even the purest desire to do for others, will be selfish in the satisfaction and happiness it brings to one doing it.
— Ashly Lorenzana
If You Think that Everyone Swindles You, You are a Selfish Person
— Vineet Raj Kapoor
Self-interest lies behind all that men do, forming the important motive for all their actions; this rule has never deceived me
— Marquis De Sade
... his light to my dark. His truth to my lies. His sacrifices to my selfishness.
— Jessica Shirvington
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.
— Emile Souvestre
The common trait of all evil is nothing other than egoism ... Basically all human evil comes from what we call the selfishness.
— Rudolf Steiner
No man is more cheated than the selfish man.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The truth is that cupidity, selfishness, envy, malice, lust, vindictiveness, are constant vices of human nature.
— William Graham Sumner
In the North the first words are, Help me; in the South, Love me.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
...the human animal is a selfish beast...
— Tennessee Williams
Take the selfishness out of this world and there would be more happiness than we should know what to do with.
— Josh Billings
It is an act of extreme selfishness for a married couple to refuse to have children when they are able to do so.
— Spencer W. Kimball
A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.
— Leonard Bernstein
More or less we are all Selfish. When it's come to Friendship, I do think that fish cant jump onto the ship!
— Shah Moazzem
I don't want to be just another thing mary elizabeth is in charge of
— Stephen Chbosky
Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.Listen to it carefully. — Richard Bach
In this age of selfishness, selfless service is the only soap that truly purifies.
— Mata Amritanandamayi
Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.
— Charles Caleb Colton
I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness.
— Gary Chapman
Selfishness is a giant in destruction of relationships.
— Irina Sopas
Most human beings know only the language of exploitation. Due to their selfishness, they are unable to consider others.
— Mata Amritanandamayi
We usually live our lives with the belief that "I sacrifice myself for everyone else," rather than thinking that "everyone else helps me.
— Jae Woong Kim
And as a result yet today we are unable to distinguish between sympathy and selfishness.
— M.H. Rakib
Love in the service of self is greed in disguise.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Remember the acorn;It does not devour other acorns. — Edgar Lee Masters
Selfishness and self-absorption are deadly charm-exterminators.
— Loretta Young
At bottom the character of M. Bonacieux was one of profound selfishness mixed with sordid avarice, the whole seasoned with extreme cowardice.
— Alexandre Dumas
If it's about me, I can be assured that there will be a bunch of empty chairs in the auditorium of my life; save the one I'm sitting in.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Service without humility is selfishness and egotism.
— Mahatma Gandhi
You want me to be unselfish? A vampire is selfish. We kill so that we can survive, that is the ultimate selfishness.
— Caroline Hanson
Like nature itself, modern economic life is driven by relentless competition and unbridled selfishness. Or is it?
— Paul J. Zak
Selfishness is the bedrock on which all moral behavior starts and it can be immoral only when it conflicts with a higher moral imperative.
— Robert A. Heinlein
When Christ is not at the center, all of our good intentions are swallowed up by selfishness.
— Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
Selfishness is the root of every sin.
— Anonymous
We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.
— Madeleine M. Kunin
If I worship the fact that I don't worship anything, amongst other things what I'm worshipping is denial.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Boredom is for the selfish.
— Patti Digh
It's about time we stop mistaking self-knowledge for self-absorption - and realize that nobody has a monopoly on selfishness.
— Meghan Daum
It is to be doubted whether he will ever find the way to heaven who desires to go thither alone.
— Owen Feltham
It was a kindness that was hard to understand ... and the most selfishness she's ever shown.
— Bisco Hatori
You shouldn't punish others for your own choices.
— Laurence J. Peter
Selfishness has never been admired.
— C.S. Lewis
Selfishness draws men into a spiritual vacuum where, absorbed in self service, they shut out all others.
— William R. Bradford
We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
— Booker T. Washington
An obese ego is just about the heaviest thing you'll ever carry. So maybe you should stop feeding it.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
O my God, how true it is that we may have of Thy gifts and yet may be full of ourselves!
— Jeanne Marie Bouvier De La Motte Guyon
Camera but no selfies, which represent selfishness and egotism. Social media? Again: not really me.
— Maurice Levy
To love can mean 'to love oneself,' and often love is no more than a juxtaposition of two solitudes.
— Pope Paul VI
The bottom line is that indifference is really a form of selfishness.
— John C. Maxwell
The first sentiment of man was that of his existence, his first care that of preserving it.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Selfishness at the expense of others happiness is demonism.
— Henry Ward Beecher
A person who is humble would never be abusive or selfish; so don't abuse yourself or withhold self-love or self-care.
— Bryant McGill
The hardest work you and I will ever do is to put off our selfishness. It is heavy lifting!
— Neal A. Maxwell
The selfishness of humanity is rooted in the self-destructive nature of man through sin. Romans 6:23
— Felix Wantang
At times we just want to become selfish.
— Avijeet Das
Each one of us is selfish, including me.
— Santosh Kalwar
When our minds are clouded by hatred, selfishness, jealousy, and anger, we lose not only control but also our judgment.
— Dalai Lama XIV
Sacrifice is a noun in my vocabulary that should be a verb in my life.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
The squirrel hoards nuts and the bee gathers honey, without knowing what they do, and they are thus provided for without selfishness or disgrace.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[The seers call him wise] whose every attempt is free, without any desire for gain, without any selfishness.
— Swami Vivekananda
Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness.
— Nicolas Chamfort
As you can see marriage is about putting away selfishness and taking on the concept of teamwork.
— Jim George
My self-absorption warms me; yours boils me.
— Mason Cooley
In contrast to the path of selfishness, there is no room for road rage on the straight and narrow way.
— Neal A. Maxwell
She also understood there was a hole in her heart where her son should be, that she was a wicked, selfish woman for wishing him back.
— Shannon Celebi
After our loved one dies: we cry, not because they left; but because they left us.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Charity does not like arithmetic; selfishness worships it.
— Mason Cooley
There were people who occupied telephone booths as though they had rented them for the day.
— Ursula Curtiss
Love is the most ethically consistent experience, because selfishness and altruism no longer seem opposed or in conflict.
— Peter Breggin
The fawning courtier and the surly squire often mean the same thing,each his own interest. — George Berkeley
Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
One thing is clear to me, that no indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness.
— George MacDonald
Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Greed is the fast-track to poverty.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
The generation that destroys the environment is not the generation that pays the price. That is the problem.
— Wangari Maathai
No, even I know better than that. I'm looking for selfishness. Perfect selfishness.
— Haruki Murakami
I am always nearest to myself, says the Latin proverb.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
Love is the selfishness of two persons.
— Antoine De La Sale
