Selfishness Quotes

• 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 have observed that the prosperity or misery of each people is in direct proportion to its liberties or its prejudices and, accordingly, to the sacrifices or the selfishness of its forefathers.

  

  Jose Rizal
  • People
  • Sacrifice
  • Liberty

• Nothing is more condemnable than selfishness. A man who thinks of himself alone is the most unlucky person of all.

  

  Anand Neelakantan
  • Person
  • Selfishness
  • Unlucky

• The fact is that sin is the most unmanly thing in God's world. You never were made for sin and selfishness. You were made for love and obedience.

  

  J. G. Holland
  • World
  • God
  • Facts

• Fatherhood: How God blesses you out of your selfishness and floods your soul with love, all while reminding you how little you know.

  

  Mark Hart Crowded House
  • God
  • Soul
  • Fatherhood

• 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 faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage.

  

  Alexander Fraser Tytler
  • Age
  • Spiritual
  • Liberty

• If we knew that god exists, such knowledge would make morality impossible. For, if we acted morally from fear or fright, or confident of a reward, then this would not be moral. It would be enlightened selfishness.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Fear
  • Morality
  • God Exists

• Selfishness draws men into a spiritual vacuum where, absorbed in self service, they shut out all others.

  

  William R. Bradford
  • Spiritual
  • Service
  • Draws

• Desire is the root of selfishness; clear your heart of desire and be selfless. Selflessness is the key to inner peace.

  

  Christofer Drew
  • Desire
  • Key
  • Inner Peace

• Very few people chose war. They chose selfishness and the result was war. Each of us, individually and nationally, must choose: total love or total war.

  

  David Dellinger
  • People
  • Peace
  • Results

• 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 persistent and most urgent question is 'What are you doing for others?'

  

  Martin Luther
  • Creative
  • Judgment
  • Altruism

• The only disease the alcoholics have is the disease of weakness and selfishness.

  

  Cathy Lamb
  • Disease
  • Weakness
  • Alcoholics

• I was surprised by how much I like being a father; surprised at what a decent father I am, because I was afraid I wouldn't be able to dump my selfishness.

  

  Michael Zaslow
  • Father
  • Able
  • Decent

• Our selfishness is so robust and many-clutching that, well encouraged, it easily devours all sustenance away from our poor little scruples.

  

  George Eliot
  • Selfishness
  • Encouraged
  • Scruples

• Next to the very young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Young
  • Selfish
  • Next

• Of all influences that cause men to choose wrong, selfishness is undoubtedly the strongest. Where it is, the Spirit is not.

  

  William R. Bradford
  • Men
  • Influence
  • Strongest

• We can pay the ecological debt by changing economic models, and by giving up luxury consumption, setting aside selfishness and individualism, and thinking about the people and the planet Earth.

  

  Evo Morales
  • Earth
  • Economic
  • Individualism

• As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Mind
  • Joy
  • Vision

• Marriage is one of the most humbling, sanctifying journeys you will ever be a part of. It forces us to wrestle with our selfishness and pride. But it also gives us a platform to display love and commitment.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Giving
  • Journey
  • Pride

• Let us reject violence and selfishness which could destroy our country's unity.

  

  Mwai Kibaki
  • Country
  • Violence
  • Rejects

• The hope for the twentieth century rests on recognition that war and depression are man-made, and needless. They can be avoided in the future by turning from the nineteenth-century characteristics just mentioned (materialism, selfishness, false values, hypocrisy, and secret vices) and going back to other characteristics that our Western Society has always regarded as virtues: generosity, compassion, cooperation, rationality, and foresight, and finding a increased role in human life for love, spirituality, charity, and self discipline.

  

  Carroll Quigley
  • War
  • Discipline
  • Secret

• Here I am going to say something which may come as a bit of a shock. God doesn't necessarily want us to be happy. He wants us to be lovable. Worthy of love. Able to be loved by Him. We don't start off being all that lovable, if we're honest. What makes people hard to love? Isn't it what is commonly called selfishness? Selfish people are hard to love because so little love comes out of them.

  

  William Nicholson
  • People
  • God
  • Happy

• The only care That I shall share Shall be the care of others, And on the road I'll halve the load Of overburdened brothers. I rather guess It's selfishness That drives me to such actions, For in this plan I find I can Forget my own distractions.

  

  John Kendrick Bangs
  • Care
  • Road
  • Forget

• You confuse freedom with having no responsibilities. But that’s not freedom. That’s just selfishness.

  

  Adam Fletcher
  • Freedom
  • Selfishness
  • Responsibilities

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