Activate Quote by Neal A. Maxwell

Selfishness is the controlling force of sinful living. It is this motive which pulsates through the natural mind, emotions and will - self-pleasing, self-serving,…

— Walter J Chantry

Selfishness can be a virtue. Selfishness is essential to survival, and without survival we cannot protect those whom we love more than ourselves.

— Duke Ellington

Selfishness at the core is to think you have a special problem- a problem that God cannot deal with, that God didn’t deal with…

— Eric Ludy

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without in himself

— Henry Ward Beecher

The sin which is indulged to the greatest extent, and which separates us from God and produces so many contagious spiritual disorders, is selfishness.

— Ellen G. White

Selfishness is never so exquisitely selfish as when it is on its knees. ... Self turns what would otherwise be a pure and powerful…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our…

— William Wilberforce

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to life. Selfishness always aims at…

— Oscar Wilde

The basis of all sin is selfishness.

— David O. McKay

Selfishness is the bedrock on which all moral behavior starts and it can be immoral only when it conflicts with a higher moral imperative.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Selfishness so often is the basis of money problems, which are a very serious and real factor affecting the stability of family life. Selfishness…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

The highest form of selfishness is that of the man who is content to go to heaven alone.

— J. C. Ryle