Quotes about selfishness
selfishness gains facts
The mere absorption of facts and truths is so exclusively an individual affair that it tends very naturally to pass into selfishness. There is no obvious social motive for the acquirement of mere learning, there is no clear social gain in success thereat. John Dewey
selfishness results humans
Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself. Julio Cortazar
selfishness redemption littles
There is little hope of the repentance and redemption of certain some until they have committed one or another of the many wrong things of which they are daily, through a course of unrestrained selfishness, becoming more and more capable. George MacDonald
selfishness world would-be
Take the selfishness out of this world and there would be more happiness than we should know what to do with. Josh Billings
selfishness atheism baseness
Atheism exists only in coldness, selfishness, and baseness. Madame de Stael
selfishness ordinary sin
Selfishness is much more than an ordinary problem because it activates all the cardinal sins! It is the detonator in the breaking of the Ten Commandments. Neal A. Maxwell
selfishness world way
Thus worshiping, serving, studying, praying, each in its own way squeezes selfishness out of us; pushes aside our preoccupations with the things of the world.
selfishness heavy hardest
The hardest work you and I will ever do is to put off our selfishness. It is heavy lifting!
selfishness virtue difficult
It is difficult to persuade mankind that the love of virtue is the love of themselves. Marcus Tullius Cicero
selfishness disease amor
Amor deliria nervosa isn't a disease of love. It's a disease of selfishness. Lauren Oliver
selfishness salvation saved
To be saved is only this-salvation from our own selfishness. John Greenleaf Whittier
selfishness growing needs
We need leadership that can elevate religion and morality to their position of paramount importance and thus eliminate growing selfishness, immorality and materialism. George W. Romney
selfishness naked world
If you seek in the spirit of selfishness, to grasp all as your own, you shall lose all, and be driven out of the world, at last, naked and forlorn, to everlasting poverty and contempt. Jonathan Edwards
selfishness coward causes
Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice. Swami Vivekananda
selfishness causes world
Sordid selfishness doth contract and narrow our benevolence, and cause us, like serpents, to infold ourselves within ourselves, and to turn out our stings to the entire world besides. Walter Scott
selfishness agents confidential
Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness. Woodrow Wilson
selfishness social social-good
No universal selfishness can bring social good to all, W. E. B. Du Bois