S Quotes
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“Selfishness has never been admired.”
Source: Mere Christianity
“Selfishness in art, as in other things, is sensibility kept at home.”
Source: Lectures on Art, and Poems
“Selfishness in the dominant dating culture most clearly manifests itself in the attitude that human relationships, and by implication people themselves, are disposable.”
Source: Disposable: When Dating Is Not Loving Your Neighbor
“Selfishness is a state of mind where others don’t matter.”
Source: Quantraz
“Selfishness is blind.”
Source: My Experiments With Truth: An Autobiography
“Selfishness is death, service is life.”
“Selfishness is hunkering down into our own little worlds because we fear that the vastness of the person standing next to us will call out the vastness of the person living within us.”
“Selfishness is like a disease that suffocates our capacity to love. While love asks us to deny ourselves for the sake of another, selfishness demands we put ourselves first at their expense. When we choose to be self-centered, we become less kind and content—more needy, sensitive, and demanding. More unsatisfiable. Moodiness and impatience, laziness and irresponsibility, are only selfishness in disguise.”
Source: The Love Dare for Parents
“Selfishness is much more than an ordinary problem because it activates all the cardinal sins! It is the detonator in the breaking of the Ten Commandments.”
Source: Men and Women of Christ
“Selfishness is never so exquisitely selfish as when it is on its knees. ... Self turns what would otherwise be a pure and powerful prayer into a weak and ineffective one.”
“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.”
Source: Aphorisms
“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognizes infinite variety of type as a delightful thing, accepts it, acquiesces in it, enjoys it.”
Source: The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde
“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.”
“Selfishness is one of the more common faces of pride. 'How everything affects me' is the center of all that matters-self-conceit, self-pity, worldly self-fulfillment, self-gratification, and self-seeking.”
“Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our good qualities, and to overlook or extenuate our defects.”
Source: A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians: In the Higher and Middle Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity
“Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.”
Source: Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of
“Selfishness is still the first nature of humanity, and kindness second. The day kindness becomes our first nature and selfishness second, that day I'll call it a civilized world.”
Source: Bulldozer on Duty
“Selfishness is the bedrock on which all moral behavior starts and it can be immoral only when it conflicts with a higher moral imperative.”
“Selfishness is the biggest form of helplessness as it makes the person blind so much that he fails to search his true self for being always in the lurch.”
“Selfishness is the controlling force of sinful living. It is this motive which pulsates through the natural mind, emotions and will - self-pleasing, self-serving, living for self.”
“Selfishness is the enemy. And all peddlers of selfishness are my enemy. Anyone who wastes more food than they share with those who are starving is my enemy - anyone who throws away more clothes than they give away to those without is my enemy - anyone who wastes more time in frivolous acts of enjoyment than they spend in helping those in need is my enemy - for they are the cause of all disparities in the world. I don't hate them, for I renounced hate long ago, but as a human it’s my duty to bring them down to earth while lifting the fallen up to their rightful place under the sun.”
Source: The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work
“Selfishness is the grand moving principle of nine-tenths of our actions.”
“Selfishness is the greatest challenge for a coach. Most players are more concerned with making themselves better than the team.”
“Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.”
“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.”
“Selfishness is the making a man's self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doeth.”
“Selfishness is the most constant of human motives. Patriotism, humanity, or the love of God may lead to sporadic outbursts sweep away the heaped-up wrongs of centuries; but they languish at times, while the love of self works on ceaselessly, unwearyingly,burrowing always at the very root of life, and heaping up fresh wrongs for other centuries to sweep away.”
Source: The Portable Charles W. Chesnutt
“Selfishness is the only real atheism.”
Source: Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People
“Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.”
Source: Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People
“Selfishness is the root and source of all natural and moral evils.”
Source: The Works of Nathanael Emmons, D.D., Third Pastor of the Church in Franklin, Mass: With a Memoir of His Life
“Selfishness is the root of all jealousy. When we are caught up thinking about ourselves, we can't think about anyone else.”
Source: Cursing the Church or Helping It?: Exposing the Spirit of Balaam
“Selfishness is the root of great evil.”
“Selfishness is the root of sin.”
“Selfishness is unnecessary. War is obsolete.”
“Selfishness is weakness. But loving and caring for others is a position of power beyond anything we can possibly imagine.”
“Selfishness is when we pursue gain at the expense of others. But God doesn’t have a limited number of treasures to distribute. When you store up treasures for yourself in heaven, it doesn’t reduce the treasures available to others. In fact, it is by serving God and others that we store up heavenly treasures. Everyone gains; no one loses.”
Source: The Treasure Principle: Discovering the Secret of Joyful Giving
“Selfishness leads to loneliness.”
“Selfishness makes Christmas a burden;
Love makes it a delight.
The joy of brightening a child's heart creates the magic of Christmas.”
“Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope for a cure”
Source: Mansfield Park
“Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.”
“Selfishness of the stable or rigid sort is as a rule more bitterly resented than the more fickle variety, chiefly, no doubt, because, having more continuity and purpose, it is more formidable.”
Source: Human Nature and the Social Order
“Selfishness sinks ships: friendships, partnerships, relationships, championships, even leaderships. Like an iceberg tearing through the hull of an ocean liner, selfishness will inevitably send all of those ships plummeting to the depths of the abyss. Selfishness sinks ships.”
“Selfishness so often is the basis of money problems, which are a very serious and real factor affecting the stability of family life. Selfishness is at the root of adultery, the breaking of solemn and sacred covenants to satisfy selfish lust. Selfishness is the antithesis of love. It is a cankering expression of greed. It destroys self-discipline. It obliterates loyalty. It tears up sacred covenants. It afflicts both men and women.”
“Selfishness, eager for a heaven of enjoyment, is quite a different thing in the soul from love and purity and truth, yearning together for what is their natural element.”
Source: Enthanasy; Or, Happy Talk Towards the End of Life ...
“Selfishness, if but reasonably tempered with wisdom, is not such an evil trait.”
“Selfishness, narcissism, being uncomfortable in your own skin, not feeling connected to the world around you, feeling dislocated from family and youth, having a strange relationship with your childhood - all those things feel really true to me.”
“Selfishness, not love, is the actuating motive of the gallant.”
“Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.”
Source: Brevia: Short Essays and Aphorisms
“Selfish— a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice.”
Source: Silas Marner (Sparklesoup Classics)
“Selfless action is a source of strength.”
Source: Collected Works