Quotes About Selfishness

And if selfishness and a lack of sexual discernment was to be judged a good enough reason to murder someone, then the death rate would surely sky-rocket.

want revenge. I want power. I want money. I want to be loved and not love in return.

people are happy, they usually become selfish, and automatically the law of Karma is set in action. Man often suffers loss through lack of appreciation.

La Ley se ha pervertido bajo la influencia de dos causas bien diferentes: el egoísmo falto de inteligencia y la falsa filantropía.

Government is that great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

Legal plunder has two roots: one of them, as we have already seen, is in human egotism; the other is in false philanthropy. Before

El defecto de que tú me hubieras curado, si me hubieses querido, era el de no colocar nada por encima del beneficio inmediato, de ser incapaz de dejar la pequeña y mediocre presa de los honorarios por la sombra del poder, porque no hay sombra sin realidad; la misma sombra es una realidad. Pero, ¡bah! Yo no tenía más que el consuelo de «ganar mucho», como el tendero de la esquina.

Alexandre e Selene eram filhos do amor. Antes fossem órfãos! Os casais apaixonados estão demasiado ocupados com eles próprios para se interessarem pela progenitura: preocupar-se-á a árvore que cresce com os frutos que caem?

Mosca had been so busy working the oars of her little plan that she had failed to see the iceberg upon which it was doomed to founder. And now here it was in front of her, a towering glacial mountain of selfishness, and she could not understand how she could have missed it. How vast was it? How far beneath the surface did it go?

Another rich man bent on what he thinks the world owes him, and willing to pay any price, as long as it's in the blood of others.

Man is a rebel, and a rebel is naturally in confusion. He is in conflict with every other rebel. For a rebel by his very nature is selfish. He is seeking his own good and not the good of others.

Too many husbands and wives enter into marriage with the idea that their spouse exists for one purpose: to make them happy.

In God's eyes an evil thought is just as sinful as an evil deed. When we allow our minds to be filled with lust, hate, anger, bitterness, jealousy, greed, envy, selfishness, or even doubt, then we are guilty of sin.

Two conflicting forces cannot exist in one human heart. When doubt reigns, faith cannot abide. Where hatred rules, love is crowded out. Where selfishness rules, there love cannot dwell. When worry is present, trust cannot crowd its way in. In the same way, God will not share His rightful place in our lives with anything or anyone less than Himself

Two conflicting forces cannot exist in one human heart. When doubt reigns, faith cannot abide. Where hatred rules, love is crowded out. Where selfishness rules, there love cannot dwell.

We will be judged according to the secret motives and the character of our work. If we have done our work for selfish motives or personal gain, even if the results looked noble to our friends and family, God knows our hearts.

The word lust [can] mean "selfish desire." . . .It is wanting something so badly you will do anything to get it. That is one of the tricks of the devil. It is too high a price to pay.

Two conflicting forces cannot exist in one human heart. When doubt reigns, faith cannot abide. Where hatred rules, love is crowded out. Where selfishness rules, there love cannot dwell. When worry is present, trust cannot crowd its way in. The very best prescription for banishing worry is found in Psalm 37:5: "Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass." The word commit means to turn over to, to entrust completely.

I get many letters every day from people who got married because they wanted their own selfish needs satisfied, and have only later come to realize that this does not work.

Our personalities, our intelligence, and our capabilities are gifts from [God's] own bountiful hand. If we divert their use for our own profit, we become guilty of selfishness.

We don't live in an ideal world, but in a world dominated by sinful, selfish desires.

Many people ask about Christianity the same [way] they ask about everything else today: "What's in it for me?" In our selfishness, we think of God as we think of everyone else. What can He contribute to us, personally?

Two conflicting forces cannot exist in one human heart. When doubt reigns, faith cannot abide. Where hatred rules, love is crowded out. Where selfishness rules, there love cannot dwell. When worry is present, trust cannot crowd its way in.

From the beginning of time until the present moment, man's ungodly quest for power, his determination to use his gift of free choice for his own selfish ends, has brought him to the brink of doom.