Quotes Tagged "selfishness"

A selfish life isn’t God’s purpose for you

You shouldn’t live for yourself alone but you must also learn to live the Christian life

Throw away such education that teaches a child to be selfish - throw away such education that teaches a child to forget their passion - throw away such education that teaches a child to be like everybody else - throw away such education that produces second hand humans instead of raising original, conscientious beings of character.

At the root of every form of ungodliness, injustice, nepotism, selfishness, every rivalry and competitive jealousy, is the monster called greed.

Until you stop making it about you, you’ll never understand.

Only the foolish would think that wisdom is something to keep locked in a drawer. Only the fearful would feel empowerment is something best kept to oneself, or the few, and not shared with all.

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.

The sin which is indulged to the greatest extent, which separates us from God and produces so many spiritual disorders, and which are contagious, is selfishness.

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

To describe Peter Thiel as simply a libertarian wildly understates the case. His belief system is based on unapologetic selfishness and economic Darwinism.

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.

Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.

I don't like bullies or selfishness or people who are grumpy.

On immigration, Europe is in danger of displaying the worst of itself: selfishness, haphazard decision-making and rows between member states.