Selfishness Quotes · Page 71

Aggression is the first step on the slippery slope to selfishness and chaos.

— Anne Campbell

“Greed runs in all men...”

— Angelo Tsanatelis

You must pray for yourself constantly. How could it be otherwise? We worship God by believing in Him, trusting Him, and loving…

— Emmet Fox

Even through you and I are in different boats, you in your boat and we our canoe, we share the same river…

— Oren Lyons

“Life's not the Internet, fuckholes! Life doesn't sway or give when you try to force it to give you what you crave,…

— Corey Taylor

Well, I know they've always told you/ Selfishness was wrong/ Yet it was for me, not you, I came to write this…

— Neil Peart

May be you should leave and find your own solar system.. because here on Earth ,the world doesn't revolve around you.!

— Simi Ngr

All who strive to live for something beyond mere selfish aims find their capacities for doing good veryinadequate to their aspirations. They…

— Lydia M Child

Nothing may be more selfish than remorse.

— Margaret Deland

There are too many who reverse both the principles and the practice of the Apostles; they become all things to all men,…

— Charles Caleb Colton

You can't be 100 percent selfish when you're working with somebody else.

— St. Lucia

A liking for truth at any cost is a passion that spares nothing and that nothing resists. It's a vice, at times…

— Albert Camus

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

— Anonymous

If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.

— Idries Shah

For me, I wanted to create something that's much more driven by a type of selfishness, a type of decadence.

— Kehinde Wiley

But the reality is we often become our kindest, most ethical selves only by seeing what it feels like to be a…

— Cheryl Strayed

In short, selfishness is the opposite of love.

— Tim LaHaye

Pure love removes all negative feelings. Destroying all selfishness, it expects nothing but gives anything. Pure love is a constant giving up-…

— Mata Amritanandamayi

The message of this season that is applicable throughout the year lies not in the receiving of earthly presents and treasures but…

— James E. Faust

Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.

— B. C. Forbes

a society driven mainly by selfish individualism has all the potential for sustainability of a collection of angry scorpions in a bottle.

— David Ehrenfeld

I am a greedy, selfish bastard. I want the fact that I existed to mean something.

— Harry Chapin

If your prayer is selfish, the answer will be something that will rebuke your selfishness. You may not recognize it as having…

— William Temple

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

— Jane Austen

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

— Oscar Wilde