Selfishness Quotes · Page 29

Selfishness reigns in our society. Men and women today look out for themselves to the neglect and hurt of those around them.

— John Bevere

“Hence you find a good deal of unselfishness in the world, but very little selflessness.”

— S.M. C

A self-centered life will have a tendency to confuse its selfish desire with Gods will.

— Santanu Mishra

That is not true I am not a greedy man because if I was why would i donate money to charity?I care…

— John D. Rockefeller

“As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so sex with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.”

— Helen Keller

“Act as if you don't know me, and i will make it seem as though you don't exist.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Art of selfishness. I would like, my wife always to be happy, so can give their husband happiness.

— Mak_786

The only way you can be a mark is if you want something for nothing. If you're greedy, you're set up.

— Maya Angelou

“Asceticism is giving up selfish activities, as poets know, and the wise declare renunciation is giving up fruits of action. — Krishna.”

— Anonymous

Did any man at his death ever regret his conflicts with himself, his victories over appetite, his scorn of impure pleasure, or…

— William Ellery Channing

I have a responsibility to my fellow my community, to my fellow man, and woman. With that said, I create from a…

— Vic Mensa

We found evolution will punish you if you're selfish and mean. For a short time and against a specific set of opponents,…

— Chris Adami

“Isn't it wonderful when people do that, when you put all your faith in their being selfish and self -centered and not…

— Joan Frances Turner

We can pay the ecological debt by changing economic models, and by giving up luxury consumption, setting aside selfishness and individualism, and…

— Evo Morales

“If my prayers have devolved into being nothing more than reciting a list of things that I want, I might as well…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

Turkey, Japan do great work because they can keep under control their little personal selfishness, egoism, jealousy, etc. when they get down…

— Sri Aurobindo

The traveler may feel assured, he will meet with no difficulties or dangers, excepting in rare cases, nearly so bad as he…

— Charles Darwin

Immediately upon the fall, the mind of man shrank from its primitive greatness and expandedness, to an exceeding smallness and contractedness... Before,…

— Jonathan Edwards

Aside from higher considerations, charity often operates as a vastly wise and prudent principle-a great safeguard to its possessor. Men have committed…

— Herman Melville

“Women are taught to sacrifice, to play nice, to live an altruistic life because a good girl is always rewarded in the…

— G.L. Lambert

“More often than not, people who are obsessed with their desires and feelings are generally unhappier in life vs. people that refocus…

— Shannon L. Alder

“I wish I could break this window. Step through it. But I can't break this window. I can't even find some less…

— Courtney Summers

Aspirations must be pure and free of selfishness. Arising from the depths of the soul, aspirations are spiritual demands penetrating all of…

— Mas Oyama

Real love, no matter how unworthy the object, is a glorious adventure. It bursts the shackles of selfishness. One's world is bigger,…

— Emilie Loring

The truly greedy, it seems to me, are those who think they've a right to live well at the expense of others.

— Jack Kelly

Go to the cross of Christ, all you that want to be delivered from the power of selfishness.

— J. C. Ryle

Selfishness beats altruism within groups. Altruistic groups beat selfish groups. Everything else is commentary.

— Anonymous

There is not much difference between a greedy person and a pauper.

— Vikrant Parsai

“Everyone might think Lizzie's an angel, but I knew better. She was selfish, and she was going to pay.”

— Michelle Madow

I'm a big believer in persistence, don't be greedy and, above all, work hard. It's what keeps me going.

— Caprice Bourret

It's good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people.

— Hugh Hefner

Caring for our own hearts isn't selfishness; it's how we begin to love.

— John Eldredge

“When our minds are clouded by hatred, selfishness, jealousy, and anger, we lose not only control but also our judgment.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

Most human beings know only the language of exploitation. Due to their selfishness, they are unable to consider others.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

Selfishness alone is sufficient to bring apocalypse upon a nation.

— Khem Veasna

Amor deliria nervosa isn't a disease of love. It's a disease of selfishness.

— Lauren Oliver

Guard your soul against the spirit of selfishness, for it destroys the sweetness of life.

— Marcia Persaud

Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.

— Khaled Hosseini

The nuclear family doesn't work. It's very destructive; it grew out of selfishness.

— Greg Wise

Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson