Selfishness Quotes - Page 9

Self-interest lies behind all that men do, forming the important motive for all their actions; this rule has never deceived me

The hardest thing of all, is just standing in front of a mirror and not recognizing the reflection.

Kingdom of God will surely come upon someone if glory of man leaves him

If your love for another person doesn’t include loving yourself then your love is incomplete.

...perhaps great sins start as simple weakness, and the consistent placing of self before others.

In the age of facebookerism and tweeterism, people have been manipulated to behave foolishly. " Look at me, i am here" culture has thrived.

A true generous heart can never revolve majorly with monetary skills nor business acumen nor cunning mind.

If you haven’t figured it out yet, an absolutely certain way to lose something as quickly as possible is to forget the privilege you have to possess it in the first place.

Selfishness Stops The Flow Of Blessings To You and Others

When the same qualities which we admire in ourselves are seen in others, even though they be superior, maliciously lower and carp at them.

Selfishness comes from too little self-love, not too much, as we compensate for our lack. There's no such thing as caring for the self too much, just as there's no such thing as too much genuine affection for others. Our world suffers from too little self-love and too much judgment, insecurity, fear, and mistrust. If we all cared about ourselves more, most of these ills would disappear.

When national ideals are confined to insignificant issues reflective primarily of a personal choice, there lies a problem of distorted priorities.

He knew that beauty faded quickly when embodied by selfishness...

If we glorify God (not self) in everything we do then everything on earth will glorify God.

At the root of every form of ungodliness, injustice, nepotism, selfishness, every rivalry and competitive jealousy, is the monster called greed.

The tide seldom shifts in favor of a selfish individual.

Speaking a painful truth should be done only in love - like wielding a sword with no hilt - it should pain oneself in direct proportion to the amount of force exerted.

Being a 'good' parent is more about the parent, and, less about the 'supposedly-could-have-been-bad' child.

Each one of us is hard at war - within. We must face this battlefield; withdraw, as the psychologist would say, our habitual projections of that strife from the world around us, and realize that we should be so busy killing the selfishness within that we really have not the time, much less the will to blow up our neighbour. And when a few more individuals recognize that the war within implies a friendly tolerance of those about one, and of their ways of living and internal fighting, the Hitlers and Stalins and even the unpleasant fellow next door may provoke in everyman a smile, rather than an H-bomb, or even a bow and arrow.

Human beings are obscured by their desire to have and their greed to own preventing their natural cause of "being

She was a woman who lived however she wished without care for another, without putting the needs of those around her before her own selfish opinions. We are breeding a nation of such thinkers and individuals--intent on personal expression at all costs--and that will lead to war. I might be more a successful writer if I did not seek to address human truth, but rather spewed out my own limited opinions without care for reader or critic or any kind of propriety.

We pray to God for ourselves instead of the general good.

I thought he'd pick me, I know he has kids, but when it came down to it, I really thought he'd pick me."Tears rolled down her face and her nose ran. She sniffed."I know I'm selfish""You're human""I wanted him to abandon his children

How good is good enough,since you are only good for your selfishness.

*Prostitution* is a euphemism for rape incidents that the victim and the economy profits from.

Society nowadays tells people that their happiness is all that matters but happiness is never found if it costs someone else’s theirs. That is not what happiness is, nor would such a person deserve it, because happiness is forged by the setting aside of self and in doing for others to make them happy first and foremost, so if you have to hurt another human being to “find your happiness,” then you have no clue what the word actually means or what it’s willing to do, and in being so self-centered and entitled, it’s veritably tragic that the only care and concern you have is for yourself.

Manifest plainness,Embrace simplicity,Reduce selfishness,Have few desires.

Just two choices on the shelf, pleasing God or pleasing self.

Some take pains to be biblical, but many [Christian financial teachers, writers, investment counselors, and seminar leaders] simply parrot their secular colleagues. Other than beginning and ending with prayer, mentioning Christ, and sprinkling in some Bible verses, there's no fundamental difference. They reinforce people's materialist attitudes and lifestyles. They suggest a variety of profitable plans in which people can spend or stockpile the bulk of their resources. In short, to borrow a term from Jesus, some Christian financial experts are helping people to be the most successful 'rich fools' they can be.

You can dress up greed, but you can’t stop the stench.

Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.

Some of us -" She paused as she sought the words. " - don't die unless we want to. The selfish ones never do.

The generation that destroys the environment is not the generation that pays the price. That is the problem.

The first sentiment of man was that of his existence, his first care that of preserving it.

Some of us were brought into this troubled world primarily or only to increase our fathers’ chances of not being left by our mothers, or vice versa.

In this age of 'whatever,' Americans are becoming slaves to the new tyranny of nonchalance. " James Morris