Selfishness Quotes - Page 12

• Happiness begins when selfishness ends.

  John Wooden

  Ends

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• Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to.

  Oscar Wilde

  Live Your Life, Wish

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• The highest form of selfishness is that of the man who is content to go to heaven alone.

  J. C. Ryle

  Men, Heaven, He Man

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Luke”, p.145, Editora Dracaena

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• Two conflicting forces cannot exist in one human heart. When doubt reigns, faith cannot abide. Where hatred rules, love is crowded out. Where selfishness rules, there love cannot dwell. When worry is present, trust cannot crowd its way in.

  Billy Graham

  Heart, Love Is, Two

  Billy Graham (2014). “Hope for Each Day Signature Edition: Words of Wisdom and Faith”, p.61, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• You are chosen to be faithful women of God in our day, to stand above pettiness, gossip, selfishness, lewdness, and all other forms of ungodliness. Recognize your divine birthright as daughters of our Heavenly Father.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Daughter, Father, Gossip

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• Calculating selfishness is the annihilation of self.

  Anton Chekhov

  Self, Annihilation, Calculating

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• Some, like Ebenezer Scrooge in Dickens's A Christmas Carol, have a hard time loving anyone, even themselves, because of their selfishness. Love seeks to give rather than to get. Charity towards and compassion for others is a way to overcome too much self-love

  James E. Faust

  Compassion, Hard Times, Self

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• The greatest comforts and lasting peace are obtained, when one eradicates selfishness from within.

  Guru Gobind Singh

  Comfort, Lasting

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• The first thing any coaching staff must do is weed out selfishness. No program can be successful with players who put themselves ahead of the team.

  Johnny Majors

  Weed, Team, Successful

  Johnny Majors, Ben Byrd (1986). “You can go home again”

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• Like nature itself, modern economic life is driven by relentless competition and unbridled selfishness. Or is it?

  Paul J. Zak

  Competition, Life Is, Modern

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• Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Coward, Causes, Cowardice

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1424, Manonmani Publishers

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• He was no martyr. He was no hero But in the last two years, selfishness gave way to selflessness, lies gave way to truth and indulgence gave way to spirituality, and anyone watching that couldn't help but be moved by it.

  Lex Lasry

  Lying, Hero, Years

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• The selfishness of an age that has devoted itself to the mere cult of pleasure has tainted the whole human race with an error that makes all our acts more or less lies against God.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Lying, Errors

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.212, Shambhala Publications

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• Lessen selfishness and restrain desires.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Desire

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• Yet one more item is needed to complete success, and that is the rendering of service to others in the community. Without this the mere satisfaction of selfish desire does not reach the top notch.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Success, Selfish, Community

  Robert Baden-Powell (2013). “Playing the Game: A Baden-Powell Compendium”, p.14, Pan Macmillan

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• Every man must decide whether he will walk in the creative light of altruism or the darkness of destructive selfishness. This is the judgment. Life's persistent and most urgent question is 'What are you doing for others?'

  Martin Luther

  Men, Light, Creative

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• We are vulnerable if we can be taken by a wave of emotion, invaded by an invidious impulse, roughed up by resentment, or engulfed by a surge of selfishness.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Selfish, Taken, Resentment

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• The more our hearts and minds are turned to assisting others less fortunate than we, the more we will avoid the spiritually cankering effects that result from greed, selfishness and overindulgence.

  Joe J. Christensen

  Selfish, Heart, Greed

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• There will be selfishness and greed and corruption and narrowness and intolerance in the world tomorrow and tomorrow's tomorrow. But pray God we may have the courage and the wisdom and the vision to raise a definite standard that will appeal to the best that is in man, and then strive mightily toward that goal.

  Harold Stassen

  Courage, Selfish, Men

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• Education has now become the chief problem of the world, its one holy cause. The nations that see this will survive, and those that fail to do so will slowly perish. . . . There must be re-education of the will and of the heart as well as of the intellect; and the ideals of service must supplant those of selfishness and greed.

  G. Stanley Hall

  Selfish, Heart, Science

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• If you make a habit of sincere prayer, your life will be very noticeably and profoundly altered. Prayer stamps with its indelible mark our actions and demeanor. A tranquillity of bearing, a facial and bodily repose, are observed in those whose inner lives are thus enriched. Within the depths of consciousness a flame kindles. And man sees himself. He discovers his selfishness, his silly pride, his fears, his greeds, his blunders. He develops a sense of moral obligation, intellectual humility. Thus begins a journey of the soul toward the realm of grace.

  Alexis Carrel

  Prayer, Selfish, Silly

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• Of all influences that cause men to choose wrong, selfishness is undoubtedly the strongest. Where it is, the Spirit is not.

  William R. Bradford

  Selfish, Men, Causes

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• As Jesus explained, the right things have to die so the right things can live--we die to selfishness, greed, power, accumulation, prestige, and self-preservation, giving life to community, generosity, compassion, mercy, brotherhood, kindness, and love. The gospel will die in the toxic soil of self.

  Jen Hatmaker

  Jesus, Kindness, Compassion

  Jen Hatmaker (2012). “7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess”, p.91, B&H Publishing Group

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• [The seers call him wise] whose every attempt is free, without any desire for gain, without any selfishness.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Wise, Desire, Gains

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.432, Manonmani Publishers

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• Sometimes a fog will settle over a vessel's deck and yet leave the topmast clear. Then a sailor goes up aloft and gets a lookout which the helmsman on deck cannot get. So prayer sends the soul aloft; lifts it above the clouds in which our selfishness and egotism befog us, and gives us a chance to see which way to steer.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Motivation, Inspiration

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