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Best Selfishness Quotes and Sayings
Selfishness is blind.
– Mahatma Gandhi
Selfishness creates greed and greed destroys the soul.
– Zarina Bibi
Selfishness stops the flow of blessings to you and others.
– Brenda Johnson Padgitt
A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.
– Oscar Wilde
Give up your selfishness, and you shall find peace; like water mingling with water, you shall merge in absorption.
– Sri Guru Granth Sahib
Selfishness at the expense of others’ happiness is demonism.
– Henry Ward Beecher
I think that in today’s world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness.
– Gary Chapman
Selfishness is the root and source of all natural and moral evils.
– Nathaniel Emmons
Selfishness, if but reasonably tempered with wisdom, is not such an evil trait.
– Giovanni Ruffini
Selfishness is the making a man’s self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doeth.
– John Owen
Money and Selfishness Quotes and Sayings
Selfishness comes from poverty in the heart, from the belief that love is not abundant.
– Don Miguel Ruiz
Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
– Nathaniel Hawthorne
The force of selfishness is as inevitable and as calculable as the force of gravitation.
– Hailliard
The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
– Napoleon Hill
Being selfish to me means that you have to look out for yourself and you don’t have to sacrifice.
– Herbie Mann
Thorough selfishness destroys or paralyzes enjoyment. A heart made selfish by the contest for wealth is like a citadel stormed in war, utterly shattered.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Selfishness is the grand moving principle of nine-tenths of our actions.
– Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Take the selfishness out of this world and there would be more happiness than we should know what to do with.
– Henry Wheeler Shaw
People wrapped up in themselves make very small packages.
– Jessica Kennedy
Human Selfishness Quotes and Sayings
Selfishness and self-absorption are deadly charm-exterminators.
– Loretta Young
Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect.
– George Sand
Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.
– Sir Arthur Helps
If all the people in this world, in which we live, were as selfish as a few of the people in this world, in which we live, there would be no world in which to live.
– W. L. Orme
That man who lives for self alone, Lives for the meanest mortal known.
– Joaquin Miller
We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.
– Lord Byron
Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself.
– Julio Cortazar
He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
– Tertullian
It is selfishness which is the cause of most of our misery. It is as a cankering disease.
– Gordon B. Hinckley
Selfishness is really self-destruction in slow motion.
– Neal A. Maxwell
Height of Selfishness Quotes and Sayings
The hardest work you and I will ever do is to put off our selfishness. It is heavy lifting!
– Neal A. Maxwell
Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless.
– Edward Albert
Sometimes you have to be selfish to get what you want and move forward in life.
– Kristen Stewart
The man who lives by himself and for himself is apt to be corrupted by the company he keeps.
– Charles Henry Parkhurst
There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
– Oscar Wilde
Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind because the truth lies elsewhere.
– Blaise Pascal
Selfishness is one of the more common faces of pride. ‘How everything affects me’ is the center of all that matters – self-conceit, self-pity, worldly self-fulfillment, self-gratification, and self-seeking.
– Ezra Taft Benson
There are points in your life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary.
– Kris Kristofferson
We found evolution will punish you if you’re selfish and mean. For a short time and against a specific set of opponents, some selfish organisms may come out ahead. But selfishness isn’t evolutionarily sustainable.
– Chris Adami
Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without in himself.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Bad Virtue of Selfishness Quotes
The selfishness must be discovered and understood before it can be removed. It is powerless to remove itself, neither will it pass away of itself. Darkness ceases only when light is introduced; so ignorance can only be dispersed by Knowledge; selfishness by Love.
– James Allen
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
– Oscar Wilde
Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.
– Erich Fromm
A selfish man is a thief.
– Jose Marti
Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
– Jane Austen
Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.
– William E. Gladstone
Selfishness is the biggest form of helplessness as it makes the person blind so much that he fails to search his true self for being always in the lurch.
– Anuj Somany
A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor’s.
– Richard Whately
The most difficult thing for us seems to be to give of ourselves, to do away with selfishness. If we really love someone, nothing is too difficult for us to do for that individual. There is no real happiness in having or getting unless we are doing it for the purpose of giving it to others. Half the world seems to be following the wrong scent in the pursuit of happiness many think it consists of having and getting and being served, when really happiness is found in serving others.
– N. Eldon Tanner
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