Top 1200 Selfishness And Greed Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

Someone who wants to succeed has to overcome his own greed first

Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.

On immigration, Europe is in danger of displaying the worst of itself: selfishness, haphazard decision-making and rows between member states.

Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.

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

Harveys opened against the backdrop of Thatcher's greed culture.

Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.

How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! Supreme selfishness is inculcated upon him as his only duty.

Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused.

Ignorance, poverty, and greed must disappear so that light can prevail in all places.

The Democratic Party needs to take a stand against corporate greed.

The greatest slave is not he who is ruled by a despot, great though that evil be, but he who is in the thrall of his own moral ignorance, selfishness, and vice.

The only thing that stands between corporate greed and poverty is the union.

Selfishness, eager for a heaven of enjoyment, is quite a different thing in the soul from love and purity and truth, yearning together for what is their natural element.

He grinned. “I was trying to remember all the deadly sins the other day,” he said. “Greed,envy, gluttony, irony, pedantry…” “I’m pretty sure irony isn’t a deadly sin.” “I’m pretty sure it is.” “Lust,” she said. “Lust is a deadly sin.” “And spanking.” “I think that falls under lust.” “I think it should have its own category,” said Jace. “Greed, envy, gluttony, irony, pedantry, lust, and spanking.

The rising sun can dispel the darkness of night, but it cannot banish the blackness of malice, hatred, bigotry, and selfishness from the hearts of humanity.

Nothing destroys one's respect in the hearts of others more than greed.

People's lives are forever controlled by two emotions: fear and greed.

Share prices follow the theorem: hope divided by fear minus greed.

WHAT IF we all treat other people as we wish to be treated? MORE happiness. LESS selfishness, crime, fraud, hatred, terrorism, wars.

You can't take anything with you. So I don't understand this whole psychotic area of greed, I don't get it.

I fear just one thing : Money! Greed was what motivated Judas to sell Jesus

I feel now, that Arabia could easily be evangelized within the next thirty years if it were not for the wicked selfishness of Christians.

It's impossible to translate Wall Street greed into one or two demands.

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?

Classism and greed are making insignificant all the other kinds of isms.

For total greed, rapacity, heartlessness, and irresponsibility there is nothing to match a nation.

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.

Selfishness is never so exquisitely selfish as when it is on its knees. ... Self turns what would otherwise be a pure and powerful prayer into a weak and ineffective one.

Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.

As frost to the bud, and blight to the blossom, even such is self-interest to friendship; for confidence cannot dwell where selfishness is porter at the gate.

We need leadership that can elevate religion and morality to their position of paramount importance and thus eliminate growing selfishness, immorality and materialism.

Spirituality for the most part is a mask worn by idleness, arrogance and greed.

The act of love . . . is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself.

There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of, before I became President of the U.S.

We have to knock down the barriers erected by greed, special interests, powerful forces.

One of the key problems of the business world is that greed has become culturally acceptable.

Greed is at the bottom of most of the wrong-doing with which government has to deal.

Every moral act of love, of mercy, and of sacrifice brings to pass the end of the world where hatred, cruelty, and selfishness reign supreme.

Friendship, obligation and greed are not good enough reasons to write anything.

Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.

... not doing what we love in the name of greed is very poor management of our lives.

God is in heaven, and we all want what's his. But power and greed and corruptible seed seem to be all that there is.

A victim of your own greed, wallowing in the muck of avarice.

The only two things you can truly depend upon are gravity and greed.

Love of the simple is all that I need, I've no time for schism or lovers of greed.

It's not competition and greed that makes the world go around, it's cooperating and caring

Fear and greed are probably the worst emotions to have in connection with the purchase and sale of stocks.

By obliging men to turn their attention to other affairs than their own, it rubs off that private selfishness which is the rust of society.

Suicide to them is an act of selfishness. Someone who is truly selfless does not think of himself often enough to desire death.

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.

Greed has taken the whole universe, and nobody is worried about their soul.

We all seem to be about aggression and greed. It's a massive pressure that affects us all.

Personal importance, or taking things personally, is the maximum expression of selfishness because we make the assumption that everything is about me.

Selfishness is the key quality that all successful people share. To be the best at what you do in any field, and to accomplish the goals you set for yourself, you have to be somewhat selfish.

Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.

Any opposition not based on rationalism or science or experience will one day or other, reveal the fraud, selfishness, lies and conspiracies.

The impulse to perform a worthy action often springs from our best nature, but is afterwards tainted by the spur of selfishness or sinister interest.

Economics is sometimes associated with the study and defense of selfishness and material inequality, but it has an egalitarian and civil libertarian core that should be celebrated.

The rights of the people to the exercise and fruits of their own industry can never be protected against the selfishness of rulers not subject to their control at short periods.