Selfishness Quotes

693 Selfishness quotes by 476 unique authors

In Scouting you are combating the brooding of selfishness. — Baden Powell de Aquino
The Good Turn will educate the boy out of the groove of selfishness. — Baden Powell de Aquino
We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. (Despite) all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world, the whole human… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love created this world, & the lack of it can kill it. Selfishness, self-absorption , arrogance & indifference never built anything. — John Hope Bryant
The simple recognition that everyone else wants to be happy and not to suffer, just as I do, serves as a constant reminder against selfishness… — Dalai Lama
It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that… — Bram Stoker
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the creative light of altruism or the darkness of destructive selfishness. This is the judgment. Life's… — Martin Luther
When Christ's love fills our hearts, it puts selfishness on the run. — Billy Graham
What it felt to me was like the dissolution of my idea of myself. I felt like separateness evaporated. I felt this tremendous sense of… — Russell Brand
To humanity, which sometimes seems to be lost and dominated by the power of evil, selfishness and fear, the risen Lord gives the gift of… — Pope John Paul II
There is a big, beautiful world that could be destroyed by selfishness and foolishness. We musicians have it within our power to help save it.… — Pete Seeger
To practice properly the Art of Peace, you must: Calm the spirit and return to the source. Cleanse the body and spirit by removing all… — Morihei Ueshiba
The meaning ascribed in popular usage to the word 'selfishness' is not merely wrong: it represents a devastating intellectual 'package-deal,' which is responsible, more than… — Ayn Rand
Love has no meaning if it isn't shared. We have been created for greater things - to love and to be loved... To love a… — Mother Teresa
The difference between God and the devil is in nothing except in unselfishness and selfishness. The devil knows as much as God, is as powerful… — Swami Vivekananda
The greatest joys and the greatest sorrows we experience are in family relationships. The joys come from putting the welfare of others above our own.… — Henry B. Eyring
Two conflicting forces cannot exist in one human heart. When doubt reigns, faith cannot abide. Where hatred rules, love is crowded out. Where selfishness rules,… — Billy Graham
A married person does not live in isolation. He or she has made a promise, a pledge, a vow, to another person. Until that vow… — R C Sproul
Go to the cross of Christ, all you that want to be delivered from the power of selfishness. — J C Ryle
Selfishness has never been admired. — C.S. Lewis
The highest form of selfishness is that of the man who is content to go to heaven alone. — J C Ryle
Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self. — Anton Chekhov
You are chosen to be faithful women of God in our day, to stand above pettiness, gossip, selfishness, lewdness, and all other forms of ungodliness.… — Howard W. Hunter
Faced with today's problems and disappointments , many people will try to escape from their responsibility. Escape in selfishness, escape in sexual pleasure, escape in… — Pope John Paul II
Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to. — Oscar Wilde

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