Selfishness Quotes - Page 29

• Possessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness.

  Alan Garner

  Family, Long, Parent

  Alan Garner (2013). “The Owl Service”, p.6, HarperCollins UK

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• Selfishness even binds many people, but blindly without having any liking for one another.

  Anuj

  People

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• Charity does not like arithmetic; selfishness worships it.

  Mason Cooley

  Doe, Charity, Worship

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• My self-absorption warms me; yours boils me.

  Mason Cooley

  Self, Self Absorption, Absorption

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• It was the mystical dogma of Bentham and Adam Smith and the rest, that some of the worst of human passions would turn out to be all for the best. It was the mysterious doctrine that selfishness would do the work of unselfishness.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Passion, Doctrine, Mysterious

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• We are not slow at discovering the selfishness of others; for this plain reason--because it clashes with our own.

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Reason, Discovering, Clash

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• I am always nearest to myself," says the Latin proverb.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Latin, Latin Proverb

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• Collectivists would have you believe that individualism is merely another word for selfishness, because individualists oppose welfare and other forms of coercive redistribution of wealth, but just the opposite is true. Individualists advocate true charity, which is the voluntary giving of their own money, while collectivists advocate the coercive giving of other people's money; which, of course, is why it is so popular.

  G. Edward Griffin

  Believe, Opposites, People

  "The Chasm: The Future Is Calling (Part One)". Essay by G. Edward Griffin, 2003.

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• A vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love.

  James Mackintosh

  Self, Vices, Harbors

  Sir James Mackintosh (1834). “A general view of the progress of ethical philosophy: chiefly during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries”, p.117

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• Pulling weeds and planting seeds. That's the story of life. We are individual lots on which either weeds of selfishness or fruit of the Holy Spirit grows and flourishes.

  Dennis Rainey

  Weed, Stories, Fruit

  Dennis Rainey, Barbara Rainey (1995). “Moments Together for Couples: 365 Daily Devotions for Drawing Near to God & One Another”, p.368, Baker Books

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• It's usually the stupid people that develop long illnesses. You need more than indolence and selfishness, you need endurance to make a good patient.

  W. H. Auden

  Stupid, Long, People

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• I learned that no man in God's wide earth is either willing or able to help any other man.

  Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

  Men, Earth, Able

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• Once you are thought selfish, not only are you forgiven a life designed mainly to suit yourself, which in anyone else would appear monstrous, but if an impulse to generosity should by chance overpower you, you will get five times the credit of some poor selfless soul who has been oozing kindness for years.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Kindness, Selfish, Years

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• It is also important to guard against mistaking for good-nature what is properly good-humor,--a cheerful flow of spirits and easy temper not readily annoyed, which is compatible with great selfishness.

  Richard Whately

  Annoyed, Important, Cheerful

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• Would that our harsh judgments could be restrained, our impatience checked, our selfishness broken down, our passions controlled, our waste of time and life in worthless or unworthy objects corrected, by the thought that there is One in whose hands we are, who cares for us with a parent's love, who will judge us hereafter without the slightest tinge of human' infirmity, the All-Merciful and the All-Just.

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

  Passion, Hands, Broken

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 357, 1895.

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• ... so large a portion of those who hold much capital, instead of using their various advantages for the greatest good of those around them, employ the chief of them for mere selfish indulgences; thus inflicting as much mischief on themselves, as results to others from their culpable neglect. A great portion of the rich seem to be acting on the principle, that the more God bestows on them, the less are they under obligation to practise any self-denial, in fulfilling his benevolent plan of raising our race to intelligence and holiness.

  Catharine Beecher

  Selfish, Responsibility, Race

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• The fawning courtier and the surly squire often mean the same thing,--each his own interest.

  George Berkeley

  Mean, Surly, Squires

  George Berkeley (1837). “Works: Account of His Life and Letters”, p.363

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• Be not in the desire of thine own ease.

  Saadi

  Desire, Ease

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• It will require more than a few hours of fasting and prayer to cast out such demons as selfishness, worldliness, and unbelief. Repentance, to be of any avail, must work a change of heart and of conduct.

  Theodore L. Cuyler

  Prayer, Heart, Fasting

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 507), 1895.

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• O my God, how true it is that we may have of Thy gifts and yet may be full of ourselves!

  Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

  May

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• We legislate against forestalling and monopoly; we would have a common granary for the poor; but the selfishness which hoards thecorn for high prices, is the preventative of famine; and the law of self-preservation is surer policy than any legislation can be.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self, Law, Common

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1848). “Essays, Orations and Lectures”

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• Lust is raw selfishness. It's all about my wants, my needs, my pleasure. Most love songs are actually lust songs.

  Rick Warren

  Song, Lust, Want

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from May 30, 2013

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• Even the most disinterested love is, after all, but a kind of bargain, in which self-love always proposes to be the gainer one wayor another.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Self, Kind

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• Self-love is the love of a man's own self, and of everything else for his own sake. It makes people idolaters to themselves, and tyrants to all the world besides.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love Is, Men, Self

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• Caring for our own hearts isn't selfishness; it's how we begin to love.

  John Eldredge

  Heart, Caring

  John Eldredge (2005). “The Ransomed Heart: A Collection of Devotional Readings”, p.286, Thomas Nelson Inc

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