Best Self Centeredness Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 2

“Insecure leaders think everything is about them, and as a result, every action, every piece of information, every decision is put through their filter of self-centeredness.”

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Book:The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization

Source: The 360 Degree Leader: Developing Your Influence from Anywhere in the Organization

“It takes both spouses to say, "My self-centeredness is the main problem in my marriage" to have a great marriage.”

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Author:Timothy Keller

“To be politically activated is to dare to care about the happiness of others and that is just about the most important activity anyone can be involved in at this time, because it changes a person - it lifts them from normal self-centeredness to a state of other centeredness. That is a good thing because it expands our perception of self. This expansion of consciousness leads to enlightenment, which is the meaning of yoga.”

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Author:Sharon Gannon

“I think that may be the biggest difference between Americans and people elsewhere. Unlike Americans, Canadians know that there are places just as real as Canada. It's a self-centeredness that's a very strange thing.”

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Author:Jane Jacobs

“I have no self-centeredness or ego about being a movie star.”

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Author:Shahrukh Khan

“Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the sin, but the heart, or core, is still missing. The central feature of pride is enmity - enmity toward God and enmity toward our fellowmen.”

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Author:Ezra Taft Benson

“To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.”

“Self-pity is egotism undiluted, after all—self-centeredness in its purest form.”

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Book:The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath

Source: The Monstrumologist: The Terror Beneath

“These illustrations suggest four general maxims[...]. The first is: remember that your motives are not always as altruistic as they seem to yourself. The second is: don't over-estimate your own merits. The third is: don't expect others to take as much interest in you as you do yourself. And the fourth is: don't imagine that most people give enough thought to you to have any special desire to persecute you.”

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Book:The Conquest of Happiness

Source: The Conquest of Happiness

“We are unlikely to cease making gods or inventing ceremonies to please them for as long as we are afraid of death, or of the dark, and for as long as we persist in self-centeredness. That could be a lengthy stretch of time.”

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Book:The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

Source: The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

“So, the first thing we should introspect - are we concerned about ourselves ? All the time do we think that we are suffering, we have this problem, that problem, or this should be done, that should be done. If the attention is on that, that all the time you are worried about yourself, then you cannot break, you cannot break through this shell of your being which is under the domination of your mental selfishness or self centeredness.”

“There must be love, and understanding, to betray. Most men haven't the wit or the honor for betrayal: not to know it when they see it; not the stomach to apprehend it as they do it. Most men, blind and dumb in their self-centeredness, don't betray: they merely disappoint.”

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Book:Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko

Source: Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko

“Every now and then, I'll meet an escapee, someone who has broken free of self-centeredness and lit out for the territory of compassion. You've met them, too, those people who seem to emit a steady stream of, for want of a better word, love-vibes. As soon as you come within range, you feel embraced, accepted for who you are. For those of us who suspect that you rarely get something for nothing, such geniality can be discomfiting. Yet it feels so good to be around them. They stand there, radiating photons of goodwill, and despite yourself you beam back, and the world, in a twinkling, changes.”

“Living God's way means putting away your self-centeredness and committing yourself to follow God's Word in spite of any feelings to the contrary.”

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Author:John C. Broger

“God's revelation... unmasks our illusions about ourselves. It exposes our pride, our individualism, our self-centeredness - in short, our sin. But worship also offers forgiveness, healing, transformation, motivation, and courage to work in the world for God's justice and peace - in short, salvation in its largest sense.”

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Author:Marva Dawn

“The greatest poets are those with memories so great that they extend beyond their strongest experiences to their minutest observations of people and things far outside their own self-centeredness.”

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Author:Stephen Spender

“It matters, it matters very much, what each of us chooses to do. The journey toward self-discovery and self-knowledge is not only life's highest adventure, but also the only way to transform society from one based on self-centeredness and compulsory compassion to one based on service and mutual responsibility.”

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Book:Fourth Instinct: The Call of the Soul

Source: Fourth Instinct: The Call of the Soul

“We ought to be people of compassion. And being people of compassion means we deny ourselves, and our self centeredness.”

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Author:Mike Huckabee

“Trying to observe the slow shift from self-centeredness to empathy is like trying to watch grass grow.”

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Author:Neal A. Maxwell

“Self-centeredness will bring on the destruction of our world. National pride separates people. All people need the same thing. When you really get down to it, you'll find that all people need good food, clean water, clean air, and a decent environment, meaning education as to how to relate to one another and to avoid conflict, how to accept the differences where different people draw different conclusions.”

“We must get away from this limited *I did this and I did that* and the self-centeredness, that dominates our society Today. It must be a privilege to serve members of society. Not that we want rewards or medals or honor for what we do, because it is just an honor to do it, if you cannot work for that, than you missed the boat. You don’t understand the teachings of the wisest men ever lived.”

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Author:Jacque Fresco

“When God interrupts your life, He is calling you to follow Him in a new way. By breaking into your settled pattern, He is moving you to a new place where you can make fresh discoveries of His grace. Embracing God’s call is never easy, but this is where the pursuit of a God-centered life begins, and where the shame of a self-centered life is exposed.”

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Author:Colin S. Smith

“Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit.”

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Author:Marianne Williamson

“Don't wait for some miracle to be performed on you from without, lifting you above your fears and doubts and self-centeredness. You help God from within by turning in outgoing love to others, and miraculously your fears and doubts and self-centeredness will vanish. The miracle starts within, not from without.”

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Author:E. Stanley Jones

“Human cultures are all experiments in trying to find a form that will fit the matter of our immediacy; but it is absolutely not the case that all such experiments are of equal merit or value. Some cultures - and modernity is patently one - have managed to transmute consciousness into the "disease" that Nietzsche called it, the self-affliction of a self-centeredness that has purged itself of all vestiges of wisdom and value.”

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Author:Kenny Smith

“One way to overcome our natural self-centeredness is to try to see things from other people's perspectives.”

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Book:How to Influence People: Make a Difference in Your World

Source: How to Influence People: Make a Difference in Your World

“The lack of God-centeredness leads to self-centeredness.”

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Book:Lucado 3-in-1: Traveling Light, Next Door Savior, Come Thirsty

Source: Lucado 3-in-1: Traveling Light, Next Door Savior, Come Thirsty

“An individual has not begun to live until he can rise above the narrow horizons of his particular individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. And this is one of the big problems of life, that so many people never quite get to the point of rising above self. And so they end up the tragic victims of self-centeredness. They end up the victims of distorted and disrupted personality.”

“Let us face at the outset how many Christians are not victorious, but defeated. Defeated by circumstances, defeated by other peoples? natures and wrong-doings, defeated by the down-drag of the flesh, defeated by loss, by pain, by suffering, by worry. Instead of saying with confidence, ?This is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith?, they have to say in honesty, ?This is the defeat that has been caused by the world, even our self-centeredness.? That is the opposite of faith. Unbelief is not the opposite of faith; self-centeredness is ? being centered in self rather than in God.”

“Raising or caring for children requires sacrifice and service, which, I believe, heals us from the destructive forces of self-centeredness.”

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Author:Richard Paul Evans