Top 1200 Selfishness And Pride Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.

Love is the selfishness of two persons.

Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.

The greatest productive force is human selfishness.

Selfishness is the only real atheism.

We are not built for the mountains and the dawns and aesthetic affinities, those are for moments of inspiration, that is all. We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle. Spiritual selfishness always wants repeated moments on the mount. We feel we could talk like angels and live like angels, if only we could stay on the mount. The times of exaltation are exceptional, they have their meaning in our life with God, but we must beware lest our spiritual selfishness wants to make them the only time.

Service without humility is selfishness and egotism.

Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.

Pride counterbalances all our miseries, for it either hides them, or, if it discloses them, boasts of that disclosure. Pride has such a thorough possession of us, even in the midst of our miseries and faults, that we are prepared to sacrifice life with joy, if it may but be talked of.

If pride is a sin ... moral pride is the greatest sin.

Satanism represents a form of controlled selfishness.

Happiness begins when selfishness ends.

We took pride in representing where we came from, took pride in being from small places, and places all around the world and being able to come together and make ourselves into a team, into a group of guys with one goal and get that done.

There is only one force stronger than selfishness, and that is stupidity.

Selfishness keeps man blind through life.

In Scouting you are combating the brooding of selfishness.

The thing that gave me most pride about it was to see the smiles and the pride on my staff's faces, because a restaurant is a team thing, and for the whole team it's very much that touchy-feely thing that I could have helped them achieve such an award.

I stand on this rostrum with a sense of deep humility and great pride - humility in the weight of those great American architects of our history who have stood here before me; pride in the reflection that this home of legislative debate represents human liberty in the purest form yet devised.

Atheism exists only in coldness, selfishness, and baseness.

Lessen selfishness and restrain desires.

Selfishness, not love, is the actuating motive of the gallant.

There is a quality of selfishness that is associated with an individual when they are in the depths of addiction.

Selfishness is the root of great evil.

I always pride myself on being an inside and outside player and pride myself on what I can do inside the paint.

All pride is willing pride.

The basis of all sin is selfishness.

Selfishness is a quality and not necessarily a bad thing.

Generosity is the only legitimate selfishness.

The poison of selfishness destroys the world.

Selfishness comes from poverty in the heart, from the belief that love is not abundant.

Selfishness is unnecessary. War is obsolete.

Selfishness has never been admired.

Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the sin, but the heart, or core, is still missing. The central feature of pride is enmity - enmity toward God and enmity toward our fellowmen.

I owe my life and hope to the gospel. Without it I would still be strutting with racist pride, or I would be suffering the moral paralysis of 'white guilt.' But the gospel has an answer to both pride and guilt.

Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.

Take the selfishness out of anger and you're left with determination.

I don't like bullies or selfishness or people who are grumpy.

Selfishness at the expense of others happiness is demonism.

Judeo-Christian conservatism overcomes natural selfishness.

Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.

Never forget - happiness ends when selfishness begins.

Selfishness alone is sufficient to bring apocalypse upon a nation.

What's wrong with selfishness and egotism? We live to die smiling, don't we?

If your pride leads you to boast, you will be doubly guilty, because your intelligence will have shown that it is incapable of controlling your pride.

The pride that keeps us from forgiving is the same pride which keeps us from accepting forgiveness.

For me, I take a lot of pride in that, and we take a lot of pride in that, being able to play baseball.

You shouldn't take pride in your natural talents any more than you should take pride in your sex, your race or color of your hair

Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.

In a word, most bad attitudes are the result of selfishness.

Happiness begins where selfishness ends.

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

We pride ourselves at Natrona - I mean, pride {ironically] - on developing a noncompetitive community. That's very important. The values that can come from that kind of meditative work combined with the creative work you do, combined with your activism, can come together.

No universal selfishness can bring social good to all.

Pride takes many forms, but spiritual pride is the most grievous. To become proud of spiritual gifts or leadership position is to forget that all we have is from God, all the position we occupy is God's appointment.

To be saved is only this-salvation from our own selfishness.

Humility is often merely feigned submissiveness assumed in order to subject others, an artifice of pride which stoops to conquer, and although pride has a thousand ways of transforming itself it is never so well disguised and able to take people in as when masquerading as humility.

In short, selfishness is the opposite of love.

Selfishness is the root and source of all natural and moral evils.

Love . . . [is] a lack of personal selfishness.

Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.