SELFISHNESS QUOTES III

quotations about selfishness

The Bible says somewhere that we are desperately selfish. I think we would have discovered that fact without the Bible.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

debate with Stephen Douglas, October 15, 1858

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Selfishness is the making a man's self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doth.

JOHN OWEN

attributed, Essays on the Distinguishing Traits of Christian Character?


If Self be predominant, the man is unsociable.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms


Foolish believers
Of hope and prayer
Marching blindly into nothingness
They shall never know
The exquisite taste of selfishness

WURDULAK

"The Exquisite Taste of Selfishness"


Where selfishness wholly rules the mind, we do not recognize the noblest and most perfect model of human nature.

MRS. WILLARD

attributed, Day's Collacon


We all of us need to be toppled off the throne of self, my dear.... Perched up there the tears of others are never upon our own cheek.

ELIZABETH GOUDGE

The White Witch


A selfish man performs an act of goodness by painful and strenuous effort, and merely to escape the reproaches of conscience.

FRANCIS WAYLAND

The Elements of Moral Science


Take the selfishness out of this world, and there would be more happiness than we should know what to do with.

H. W. SHAW

attributed, Day's Collacon


The weakness of the social affections and the strength of the private desires constitute selfishness; a vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbours it.

JAMES MACKINTOSH

Dissertation on the Progress of Ethical Philosophy


It is hard to feel safe and have good connection in a relationship if you feel your partner is only concerned with their own needs and is not showing up for you. Most of us tend to pull back and focus on ourselves when we feel this too, which means we can become selfish. This is a recipe for disaster in a marriage, because if everyone is focused on what they aren't getting -- no one is giving anything.

KIM GILES

"Is selfishness the problem in your relationship?", KSL, July 24, 2017


Selfishness at the expense of others' happiness is demonism.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

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Let not a man's self be to him all in all.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms

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The force of selfishness is as inevitable and as calculable as the force of gravitation.

GEORGE STILLMAN HILLARD

Six Months in Italy


To be selfish is to sacrifice the nobler for the meaner ends, and to be sordidly content.

HUGH R. HAWEIS

Speech in Season


Like the leprosy, [selfishness] requires a miracle to cure it, and then is hard to stay cured.

LEVI CARROLL JUDSON

The Probe, or, One Hundred and Two Essays on the Nature of Men and Things


You can call me selfish
But all I want is your love
And you can call me hopeless, baby
Cause I'm hopelessly in love
You can call me unperfect but who's perfect?
Tell me what do I gotta do
To prove that I'm the only one for you?
So what's wrong with being selfish?

NSYNC

"Selfish"


Sometimes we strive, undeterred
To walk as one toward our goal
But as people stray toward more selfish ways
We see we have no control

BAD RELIGION

"Dream of Unity"


Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

GEORGE ELIOT

Middlemarch

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Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

JANE AUSTEN

Mansfield Park

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

HENRY WARD BEECHER

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