Self Seeking Quotes

43 quotes by 31 authors

In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half, I still find… — Jane Welsh Carlyle
Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a… — Charles Alexander Eastman
There is no real lasting joy in self-seeking. — Victor Collins, Baron Stonham
War is utter damn nonsense, a vast cancer fed by lies and self seeking malignity on the part of those who don't do the fighting. — John Dos Passos
One may desire a spurious respect and precedence among one's fellow monks, and the veneration of outsiders. "Both monks and laity should think it was… — Gautama Buddha
Our labor unions are not narrow, self-seeking groups. They have raised wages, shortened hours, and provided supplemental benefits. Through collective bargaining and grievance procedures, they… — John F. Kennedy
Self-interest, to be sure, is one of the most important, but we have many other motives - honesty, self-respect, altruism, love, sympathy, faith, sense of… — Ha-Joon Chang
Is there something in trade that desiccates and flattens out, that turns men into dried leaves at the age of forty? Certainly there is. It… — John Jay Chapman
Perhaps the greatest barrier to revival on a large scale is the fact that we are to interested in a great display. We want an… — Sadhu Sundar Singh
Self-seeking, self-glory, that is not me. No. Many people say I embarrass them with my humility. — Peter Akinola
The world is so full of people who are grabbing and self-seeking. So the rare individual who unselfishly tries to serve others has an enormous… — Dale Carnegie
A man who has once perceived, however temporarily and however briefly, what makes greatness of soul, can no longer be happy if he allows himself… — Bertrand Russell
Selfishness is one of the more common faces of pride. 'How everything affects me' is the center of all that matters-self-conceit, self-pity, worldly self-fulfillment, self-gratification,… — Ezra Taft Benson
The most powerful prayer, one well-nigh omnipotent, and the worthiest work of all is the outcome of a quiet mind. The quieter it is the… — Meister Eckhart
Discard every self-seeking motive as soon as it is seen, and you need not search for truth; truth will find you.... — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
In a tribal organization, even in time of peace, service to tribe or state predominates over all self seeking; in war, service for the tribe… — Arthur Keith
The ruthlessness born of self-seeking is ineffectual compared with the ruthlessness sustained by dedication to a holy cause. God wishes, said Calvin, that one should… — Eric Hoffer
The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting. — Theodor Reik
I firmly believe that the moment our hearts are emptied of pride and selfishness and ambition and self-seeking and every thing that is contrary to… — Dwight L. Moody
Don't you think I have sense enough to worry about my motives for saying the prayer? That's exactly what's bothering me so. Just because I'm… — J D Salinger

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