Selfishness Quotes - Page 13

• 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 a father now, I wouldn't do what my dad did, because it left me feeling emotionally unstable as a kid. But he didn't do the things he did out of selfishness or malice.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Dad, Father, Kids

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• Gratitude: An imaginary emotion that rewards an imaginary behavior, altruism. Both imaginaries are false faces for selfishness, which is a real and honest emotion.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Gratitude, Real, Rewards

  Robert A. Heinlein (1988). “To Sail Beyond the Sunset”

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• No man at bottom means injustice; it is always for some obscure distorted image of a right that he contends: an obscure image diffracted, exaggerated, in the wonderfulest way by natural dimness and selfishness; getting tenfold more diffracted by exasperation of contest, till at length it become all but irrecognis-able.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Mean, Men, Able

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.123, Cambridge University Press

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• Selfishness is the key quality that all successful people share. To be the best at what you do in any field, and to accomplish the goals you set for yourself, you have to be somewhat selfish.

  Ja Rule

  Selfish, Successful, People

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• Love created this world, & the lack of it can kill it. Selfishness, self-absorption , arrogance & indifference never built anything.

  John Hope Bryant

  Self, Arrogance, World

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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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• It is something like the way dame Nature gathers round a foreign body an envelope of some insensitive tissue which can protect from evil that which it would otherwise harm by contact. If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn any one for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper root for its causes than we have knowledge of.

  Bram Stoker

  Roots, Evil, Way

  Bram Stoker, Mort Castle (2014). “Dracula”, p.125, "F+W Media, Inc."

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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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• To humanity, which sometimes seems to be lost and dominated by the power of evil, selfishness and fear, the risen Lord gives the gift of His love which forgives, reconciles and reopens the soul to hope.

  Pope John Paul II

  Evil, Giving, Soul

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• A married person does not live in isolation. He or she has made a promise, a pledge, a vow, to another person. Until that vow is fulfilled and the promise is kept, the individual is in debt to his marriage partner. That is what he owes. 'You owe it to yourself' is not a valid excuse for breaking a marriage vow but a creed of selfishness.

  R. C. Sproul

  Promise, Doe, Debt

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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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• Faced with today's problems and disappointments , many people will try to escape from their responsibility. Escape in selfishness, escape in sexual pleasure, escape in drugs, escape in violence, escape in indifference and cynical attitudes. I propose to you the option of love, which is the opposite of escape.

  Pope John Paul II

  Disappointment, Attitude, Responsibility

  Pope John Paul II (1980). “Pilgrimage of peace: the collected speeches of John Paul II in Ireland and the United States”, HarperCollins

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• Because of my age and because there's more work on the small screen. What it's missing in quality it makes up for in quantity. From an actor's selfish point of view.

  Cesar Romero

  Missing You, Selfish, Views

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• Happiness begins when selfishness ends.

  John Wooden

  Ends

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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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• 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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• If we do not cling to riches, selfishness or greed - then I believe we are getting closer to God.

  Daniel Ortega

  Believe, Greed, Riches

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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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• By obliging men to turn their attention to other affairs than their own, it rubs off that private selfishness which is the rust of society.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Men, Law, Attention

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1863). “Democracy in America”, p.364

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• Anyone who recognizes this regime [Israel] because of the pressure of the World oppressor, or because of naiveté or selfishness, will be eternally disgraced and will burn in the fury of the Islamic nations.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Islamic, Israel, World

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