Selfishness Quotes

693 Selfishness quotes by 476 unique authors

Right-wing propagandists like Limbaugh and Coulter are essentially entertainers, entertainers who stimulate prejudice, selfishness and meanness the way a comedian works for laughs or a… — Unknown Author
When the perfect order prevails, the world is like a home shared by all. Leaders are capable and virtuous. Everyone loves and respects their own… — Confucius
Certain beliefs must accompany every action: One should act without selfishness, cultivate compassion for all living things, and develop respect for others. — Dalai Lama
Silence...leads us to make a gift of self rather than a selfishness that has been gift-wrapped ...Silence does not mean running away but rather recollecting… — Unknown Author
Every divorce is the result of selfishness on the part of one or the other or both parties to a marriage contract. Someone is thinking… — Spencer W. Kimball
Politics is not an end, but a means. It is not a product, but a process. It is the art of government. Like other values… — Calvin Coolidge
The major threats to our survival no longer stem from nature without but from our own human nature within. It is our carelessness, our hostilities,… — M. Scott Peck
The communism of combined wealth and capital, the outgrown of overweening cupidity and selfishness which assiduously undermines the justice and integrity of free institutions, is… — Grover Cleveland
Kindness, love, patience, understanding, and unity will increase as we serve, while intolerance, jealousy, envy, greed, and selfishness decrease or disappear. The more we give… — Carlos H. Amado
The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual… — Alexander Fraser Tytler
Our selfishness will condemn us to the worst suffering that we ourselves have invented - loneliness. — Paulo Coelho
Without the help of selfishness, the human animal would never have developed. Egoism is the vine by which man hoisted himself out of the swamp… — Blaise Cendrars
At the heart of the message of the Savior of the world is a single, glorious, wonderful, still largely untried concept. In its simplest terms… — James E. Faust
The message of this season that is applicable throughout the year lies not in the receiving of earthly presents and treasures but in the forsaking… — James E. Faust
If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride because it shows you trust in your own power. Your self-sufficiency, your selfishness and your… — Mother Teresa
The vital Christian arouses opposition because he is a standing rebuke to the selfishness and sin of those around him. — John Hagee
It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate… — Robert Greene
Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently… — Florence Nightingale
People do not cooperate under the division of labor because they love or should love one another. They cooperate because this best serves their own… — Ludwig von Mises
While it only takes one spouse to be friendly, it takes both spouses to be friends. When both spouses are unfriendly, the marriage is marked… — Mark Driscoll

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