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Last updated on December 23, 2024.
The truth is that cupidity, selfishness, envy, malice, lust, vindictiveness, are constant vices of human nature.
We can neither change nor overpower God's eternal suffrage against selfishness and meanness.
I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness.
It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.
Take the selfishness out of this world and there would be more happiness than we should know what to do with.
As you can see marriage is about putting away selfishness and taking on the concept of teamwork.
Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.
I'm just the mere shadow of my former selfishness. I crave the silhouette of your kiss.
Nothing is more condemnable than selfishness. A man who thinks of himself alone is the most unlucky person of all.
And because of our selfishness, we will be condemned to the worst torture humankind ever invented for itself: loneliness.
Every time we give in to selfishness and say “No” to God, we spoil his loving plan for us.
The greatest surprise of human evolution may be that the highest form of selfishness is selflessness.
Selfishness even binds many people, but blindly without having any liking for one another.
Love is the most ethically consistent experience, because selfishness and altruism no longer seem opposed or in conflict.
Most human beings know only the language of exploitation. Due to their selfishness, they are unable to consider others.
Covetousness is a sort of mental gluttony, not confined to money, but craving honor, and feeding on selfishness.
One of the worst things sin did for man was to make him selfish, for selfishness cannot love.
I can only say that I have acted upon my best convictions, without selfishness or malice, and that by the help of God I shall continue to do so.
Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
Of all influences that cause men to choose wrong, selfishness is undoubtedly the strongest. Where it is, the Spirit is not.
My desire for the part of Mammy was not dominated by selfishness for Hollywood has been good to me and I am grateful.
Selfishness is the greatest challenge for a coach. Most players are more concerned with making themselves better than the team.
Love is the doorway through which the human soul passes from selfishness to service.
Every divorce is the result of selfishness on the part of one or both parties to a marriage contract.
Human love is mostly selfishness; all the time it thinks only of the little 'i'. That 'i' is the ego.
As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
There is a prodigious selfishness in dreams: they live perfectly deaf and invulnerable amid the cries of the real world.
We are not slow at discovering the selfishness of others; for this plain reason--because it clashes with our own.
One of the unseen benefits of having children is that they deliver you from your own selfishness. There's no going back.
To practice Zen Buddhism is to train oneself to eliminate hatred, anger and selfishness and to develop loving-kindness towards all.
Selfishness is the making a man's self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doeth.
The hardest work you and I will ever do is to put off our selfishness. It is heavy lifting!
My desire for the part of Mammy was not dominated by selfishness for Hollywood has been good to me and I am grateful
Getting enough of what you want without depriving anyone else is the ultimate act of selfishness and sanity.
Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.
There is no such thing as low-cost Christianity. Following Jesus means swimming against the tide, renouncing evil and selfishness
Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.
Like nature itself, modern economic life is driven by relentless competition and unbridled selfishness. Or is it?
The hatred and cruelty which have their source in selfishness are ineffectual things compared with the venom and ruthlessness born of selflessness.
Camera but no selfies, which represent selfishness and egotism. Social media? Again: not really me.
Love created this world, & the lack of it can kill it. Selfishness, self-absorption , arrogance & indifference never built anything.
Humans are selfish, and because of our innate selfishness, I'm very confident that we can overcome any amount of environmental destruction.
I like to think that my arrogance, impetuosity, impatience, selfishness and greed are the qualities that make me the lovable chap I am.
Imagining that you are deep and complex, but others are simple, is one of the primary signs of malignant selfishness.
Along with selfishness, anger is one of the most serious problems facing the world today
If we do not cling to riches, selfishness or greed - then I believe we are getting closer to God.
Legal plunder has two roots: One, as we have just seen, is in human selfishness; the other is in false philanthropy.
Selfishness draws men into a spiritual vacuum where, absorbed in self service, they shut out all others.
Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.
Let us reject violence and selfishness which could destroy our country's unity.
The vital Christian arouses opposition because he is a standing rebuke to the selfishness and sin of those around him.
Selfishness is weakness. But loving and caring for others is a position of power beyond anything we can possibly imagine.
One thing is clear to me, that no indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness.
Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.
Tenderness and respect-never selfishness-must be the guiding principles in the intimate relationship between husband and wife
In contrast to the path of selfishness, there is no room for road rage on the straight and narrow way.
Possessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness.
Gratitude free of compassion is selfishness. It is nothing more than being happy for what has been done to benefit you.
Our selfishness will condemn us to the worst suffering that we ourselves have invented - loneliness.
It is to the credit of human nature that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates.
