Selfishness Quotes - Page 17

• 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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• The Lord supplies our needs, but not our selfishness

  R.J. Rushdoony

  Needs, Lord, Supplies

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• The essence of Theosophy is the perfect harmonizing of the divine with the human in man, the adjustment of his god-like qualities and aspirations, and their sway over the terrestrial or animal passions in him. Kindness, absence of every ill feeling or selfishness, charity, goodwill to all beings, and perfect justice to others as to oneself, are its chief features. He who teaches Theosophy preaches the gospel of goodwill; and the converse of this is true also — he who preaches the gospel of goodwill, teaches Theosophy.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Kindness, Passion, Animal

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• The inescapable fact is that when we build a society based on greed, selfishness, and ruthless competition, the fruits we can expect to reap are economic insecurity at home and international discord abroad.

  Tommy Douglas

  Home, Greed, Insecurity

  Tommy Douglas' remarks at the Annual Convention of the Saskatchewan CCF in Regina, Canada, July 1951.

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• Aspirations must be pure and free of selfishness. Arising from the depths of the soul, aspirations are spiritual demands penetrating all of a human life and making it possible for a person to die for their sake. A person without aspirations is like a ship without a rudder or a horse without a bridle. Aspirations give consistent order to life.

  Mas Oyama

  Spiritual, Horse, Order

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• Even through you and I are in different boats, you in your boat and we our canoe, we share the same river of life. What befalls me befalls you. And downstream, downstream in this river of life, our children will pay for our selfishness, for our greed, and for our lack of vision.

  Oren Lyons

  Children, Rivers, Greed

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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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• ... since birth control roots in a species of selfishness, the spiritual life of the user of contraceptives is also weakened. Women seem to become more masculine in thought and action; men more callous and reserved; both husband and wife become more careless of each other, and increasingly indifferent to the higher duties and joys of living.

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Spiritual, Husband, Men

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• It is an act of extreme selfishness for a married couple to refuse to have children when they are able to do so.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Children, Couple, Birth Control

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• Did the mass of men know the actual selfishness and injustice of their rulers, not a government would stand a year. - The world would foment with revolution.

  Theodore Parker

  Men, Years, World

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• We are close to God when we are close to people. If we think of God as something in favor of the betterment of human beings, and if we act in a way that brings about that betterment-if we do not cling to riches, selfishness, or greed-then I believe we are getting closer to God.

  Daniel Ortega

  God, Believe, Thinking

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• The attack on "selfishness" is an attack on man's self-esteem; to surrender one, is to surrender the other.

  Ayn Rand

  Self Esteem, Men, Surrender

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.10, Penguin

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• The planet should not be used as a warehouse of resources to serve humanity's selfishness

  Rowan Williams

  Humanity, Used, Resources

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• True happiness comes from having a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved by cultivating altruism, love and compassion, and by eliminating anger, selfishness and greed.

  Dalai Lama

  Happy, Compassion, Greed

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• The sun of truth rises in the human being and illuminates his world when he lifts his mind from the darkness of ignorance and selfishness into the light of wisdom and altruism

  Samael Aun Weor

  Ignorance, Light, Darkness

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• WHAT IF we all treat other people as we wish to be treated? MORE happiness. LESS selfishness, crime, fraud, hatred, terrorism, wars.

  Phil Harding

  Friendship, Relationship, Family

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• In Scouting you are combating the brooding of selfishness.

  Unknown

  Wisdom, Brooding, Scouting

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• The Good Turn will educate the boy out of the groove of selfishness.

  Baden Powell de Aquino

  Wisdom, Boys, Groove

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• We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. (Despite) all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world, the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether... The effect of the indulgence of this human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Kindness, Wind, East

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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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• The simple recognition that everyone else wants to be happy and not to suffer, just as I do, serves as a constant reminder against selfishness and partiality. It reminds us there is little to be gained from being kind and generous while hoping to win something in return. Actions motivated by a desire to earn a good name for ourselves are still selfish, even if they appear to be acts of kindness.

  Dalai Lama

  Kindness, Selfish, Winning

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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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