Selfishness Quotes

693 Selfishness quotes by 476 unique authors

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
Happiness begins when selfishness ends. — John Wooden
The greatest comforts and lasting peace are obtained, when one eradicates selfishness from within. — Guru Gobind Singh
Some, like Ebenezer Scrooge in Dickens's A Christmas Carol, have a hard time loving anyone, even themselves, because of their selfishness. Love seeks to give… — James E. Faust
If we do not cling to riches, selfishness or greed-then I believe we are getting closer to God. — Daniel Ortega
As Jesus explained, the right things have to die so the right things can live--we die to selfishness, greed, power, accumulation, prestige, and self-preservation, giving… — Jen Hatmaker
[The seers call him wise] whose every attempt is free, without any desire for gain, without any selfishness. — Swami Vivekananda
Sometimes a fog will settle over a vessel's deck and yet leave the topmast clear. Then a sailor goes up aloft and gets a lookout… — Charles Spurgeon
By obliging men to turn their attention to other affairs than their own, it rubs off that private selfishness which is the rust of society. — Alexis de Tocqueville
Anyone who recognizes this regime [Israel] because of the pressure of the World oppressor, or because of naivetÃ© or selfishness, will be eternally disgraced and… — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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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