Selfishness Quotes

• The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Army
  • Selfishness
  • Unhappiness

• 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 good qualities, and to overlook or extenuate our defects.

  

  William Wilberforce
  • Rate
  • Selfishness
  • Principal

• The State must act as the guardian of a millennial future in the face of which the wishes and the selfishness of the individual must appear as nothing and submit.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Wishes
  • Selfishness
  • Guardian

• I'm just the mere shadow of my former selfishness. I crave the silhouette of your kiss.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Shadow
  • Kiss
  • Selfishness

• I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in the hands of the most devoted worker in this cause. The example of great and pure characters is the only thing that can produce fine ideas and noble deeds. Money only appeals to selfishness and always tempts its owners irresistibly to abuse it.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • World
  • Money
  • Humanity

• Selfishness is the only real atheism.

  

  Israel Zangwill
  • Real
  • Atheism
  • Selfishness

• Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Selfishness
  • Cultivation
  • Unsatisfactory

• I have learned, by some experience, that virtue and patriotism, vice and selfishness, are found in all parties, and that they differ less in their motives than in the policies they pursue.

  

  William H. Seward
  • Party
  • Virtue
  • Policy

• Possessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness.

  

  Alan Garner
  • Long
  • Live
  • Parents

• As a father now, I wouldn't do what my dad did, because it left me feeling emotionally unstable as a kid. But he didn't do the things he did out of selfishness or malice.

  

  Anthony Kiedis Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Father
  • Kid
  • Emotionally

• I can only say that I have acted upon my best convictions, without selfishness or malice, and that by the help of God I shall continue to do so.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • God
  • I Can
  • Selfishness

• Undoubtedly there are, in connection with each of these things, cases of fraud, swindling, and other financial crimes; that is to say, the greed and selfishness of men are perpetual.

  

  William Graham Sumner
  • Men
  • Financial
  • Crime

• Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognizes infinite variety of type as a delightful thing, accepts it, acquiesces in it, enjoys it.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Live
  • Alone

• If faith is lacking, it is because there is too much selfishness, too much concern for personal gain. For faith to be true, it has to be generous and loving. Love and faith go together, they complete each other.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Together
  • Faith
  • Selfishness

• Thorough selfishness destroys or paralyzes enjoyment. A heart made selfish by the contest for wealth is like a citadel stormed in war, utterly shattered.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Enjoyment
  • Selfishness
  • Destroys

• History of Ireland--lawlessness and turbulency, robbery and oppression, hatred and revenge, blind selfishness everywhere--no principle, no heroism. What can be done with it?

  

  William Allingham
  • Done
  • Revenge
  • Hatred

• This hour in history needs a dedicated circle of transformed nonconformists. Our planet teeters on the brink of annihilation; dangerous passions of pride, hatred, and selfishness are enthroned in our lives; and men do reverence before false gods of nationalism and materialism. The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • History
  • Nationalism
  • Maladjustment

• Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • Honor
  • Craving
  • Covetousness

• I think that there’s too much sugar in the world and not enough salt. Kids want to be challenged. Humans want to aspire to something. You don’t win in life and you don’t win in athletics with softness or selfishness.

  

  Buzz Williams
  • Life
  • Win
  • Athletics

• The truth is that cupidity, selfishness, envy, malice, lust, vindictiveness, are constant vices of human nature.

  

  William Graham Sumner
  • Envy
  • Lust
  • Selfishness

• In the North the first words are, Help me; in the South, Love me.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Help
  • Words
  • Helping

• If she loved him the way she said she did, she wanted him whole. Maybe this was what love meant after all: sacrifice and selflessness. It did not mean hearts and flowers and a happy ending, but the knowledge that another's well-being is more important than one's own.

  

  Melissa de la Cruz
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Knowledge

• Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Selfishness
  • Courtesy
  • Veneer

• Selfishness is when we pursue gain at the expense of others. But God doesn’t have a limited number of treasures to distribute. When you store up treasures for yourself in heaven, it doesn’t reduce the treasures available to others. In fact, it is by serving God and others that we store up heavenly treasures. Everyone gains; no one loses.

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • Selfishness
  • Pursue
  • Expense

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