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Last updated on December 23, 2024.
Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.
We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
In a word, most bad attitudes are the result of selfishness.
Go to the cross of Christ, all you that want to be delivered from the power of selfishness.
There is only one force stronger than selfishness, and that is stupidity.
There is a quality of selfishness that is associated with an individual when they are in the depths of addiction.
Some say I'm selfish. My approach is the complete opposite of selfishness.
Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
While selfishness joins hands with no one of the virtues, benevolence is allied to them all.
I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment.
We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.
To be saved is only this-salvation from our own selfishness.
The Good Turn will educate the boy out of the groove of selfishness.
The greatest comforts and lasting peace are obtained, when one eradicates selfishness from within.
You fueled my obession, even encouraged it and your selfishness ruined my life
Selfishness is the root and source of all natural and moral evils.
When Christ's love fills our hearts, it puts selfishness on the run.
Caring for our own hearts isn't selfishness; it's how we begin to love.
In this age of selfishness, selfless service is the only soap that truly purifies.
Charity does not like arithmetic; selfishness worships it.
This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.
Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
Maybe selflessness was only selfishness on another level.
Atheism exists only in coldness, selfishness, and baseness.
What's wrong with selfishness and egotism? We live to die smiling, don't we?
All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
One of the worst things in sports is when selfishness gets disguised as truth.
It is selfishness which is the cause of most of our misery.
Selfishness keeps man blind through life.
What's the matter with the world? Why, there ain't nothing but one word wrong with everyone of us, and that's selfishness.
Selfishness, if but reasonably tempered with wisdom, is not such an evil trait.
Aggression is the first step on the slippery slope to selfishness and chaos.
It's almost selfishness, taking care of your mental health. You can't just not do it.
Selfishness in art, as in other things, is sensibility kept at home.
Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination.
Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect
Cleanse your body and soul, removing malice, selfishness and desire.
The nuclear family doesn't work. It's very destructive; it grew out of selfishness.
The planet should not be used as a warehouse of resources to serve humanity's selfishness
It is an act of extreme selfishness for a married couple to refuse to have children when they are able to do so.
Selfishness is the grand moving principle of nine-tenths of our actions.
So it is the fear, weakness, selfishness, and cowardice of onlookers that permit evil behavior to persist.
There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.
Greed and selfishness do seem to be central motivators of mankind.
For Silicon Valley and its idols, innovation is the new selfishness.
Selfishness alone is sufficient to bring apocalypse upon a nation.
Failing to hold someone accountable is ultimately an act of selfishness.
Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.
A gamester, as such, is the cool, calculating, essential spirit of concentrated, avaricious selfishness.
Selfishness comes from poverty in the heart, from the belief that love is not abundant.
The hardest thing to cope with is not selfishness or vanity or deceitfulness, but sheer stupidity.
It seems to me that there are two great enemies of peace - fear and selfishness.
There are points in your life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary.
Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame.
Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
Never forget - happiness ends when selfishness begins.
Judeo-Christian conservatism overcomes natural selfishness.
Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.
Conceit is lovable and unconcealed ; vanity is supreme selfishness, usually hidden.
The highest form of selfishness is that of the man who is content to go to heaven alone.