As long as greed is the root of all evil, there will not be peace.Get rid of selfishness and greed too will disappear.

It’s easy to make a mess when you’re not the one who has to clean it up.

Just two choices on the shelf, pleasing God or pleasing self.

Perhaps what I am about to say will appear strange to you gentlemen, socialists, progressives, humanitarians as you are, but I never worry about my neighbor, I never try to protect society which does not...

The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places. (p 57)

Indeed this gentleman’s stoicism was of that not uncommon kind, which enables a man to bear with exemplary fortitude the afflictions of his friends, but renders him, by way of counterpoise, rather selfish and sensitive...

Deceit for personal gain is one of history’s most recurring crimes. Man’s first step towards change would be thinking, counter-arguing, re-thinking, twisting, straightening, perfecting, then believing every original idea he intends to make public before...

It all depends on what people you’re talking about helping. That’s the wonderful think about just about every religion on the planet – they’re all so incredibly selfish.

There are some people that see the half full cup and get upset about where the other half of the cup went… With an attitude like that, they will never be happy. I see a...

Ah, those foolish days, those foolish days when we were unselfish and pure-minded; those foolish days when our simple hearts were full of truth, and faith, and reverence! Ah, those foolish days of noble longings...

Know the Self as Lord of the chariot, the body as the chariot itself, the discriminating intellect as the charioteer, and the mind as the reins. The senses, say the wise, are the horses; selfish...

What are you really living for? It’s crucial to realize that you either glorify God, or you glorify something or someone else. You’re always making something look big. If you don’t glorify God when you’re...

Choose altruism, because selfishism is a lonely, cold, dark hole.

Almost every sinful action ever committed can be traced back to a selfish motive. It is a trait we hate in other people but justify in ourselves.

I don’t want you to leaveWhich is exactly why I should. But don’t worry. I’m essentially a selfish creature. I crave your company too much to do what I should.

Sometimes we realize that we are like facebook ,people using us for themselves , meeting each other via us , earning via us,taking all credits , even no one talking about us ,just using US...

Nothing instills more fear and worry in one’s good heart than his burgeoning success as it devours his precious & pleasurable moments for self-introspection to make timely correction with an influx of a lot of...

If I give with the motive to get, regardless of the degree to which that motive besets me, I will walk away impoverished and I will leave those to whom I have given just as...

Man is not, by nature, deserving of all that he wants. When we think that we are automatically entitled to something, that is when we start walking all over others to get it.

Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.

When feels that someone puts you aside, sometimes thinks in an act of selfishnessbut always its really to have afraid of something worst.

We hurt people, when we give ourselves more value than others.

Life is just a big game of Texas hold’em, unexpected things may arise that may suite you or destroy you. You gotta make the best of the cards your dealt, adjust accordingly, and always understand...

His Kingship, precisely because it is so broad, so total, is doomed to be rejected by anybody who is still into tribalism, or small belonging systems. We don’t really like the big Kingdom if it...

If there is to be any hope for the world, indeed if you really want to find satisfaction and happiness in your life, you must regard the return you will receive as a secondary consideration,...

More or less we are all Selfish. When it’s come to Friendship, I do think that fish cant jump onto the ship!

We’re a society of brats, fighting over the same toys. That, for me, is the closest we come to be inherently evil as a people. It leads to selfishness, inflexibility, and impatience — among so...

Avoiding pain causes endless suffering for you and others. Avoiding pain is really selfishness.

Selfishness Stops The Flow Of Blessings To You and Others

Those are who are selfish are rewarded for being nice. Those who truly care about others feel a smile in return is all the reward they need.

think about yourself because selfishness is everywhere

The truth is that, when it comes to sex, selfishness is pretty typical with guys.””Great. How infinitely comforting.””I don’t mean they’re all jerks. I just mean it’s more common for them to go about sex...

She was a woman who lived however she wished without care for another, without putting the needs of those around her before her own selfish opinions. We are breeding a nation of such thinkers and...

To Love oneself is Ok but,to love only oneself isn’t!

Just because you have stolen someone’s heart, luckily owned and occupied as a home, doesn’t give you the audacity to enforce hurtful policies.

A humanitarian seldom makes a good lover. For a lover’s world revolves around their lover, while a humanitarian’s world revolves around the world.

Everyone wants a piece of you. The trick is what piece to give.

Far rather would she that he were dead! She could not sit beside him when he stared so and did not see her and made everything terrible; sky and tree, children playing, dragging carts, blowing...

Oh, mankind, race of crocodiles! How well I recognize you down there, and how worthy you are of yourselves!

Success is not a process of accumulating wealth, building mass relationship or collecting things in excess, but developing, excelling, fostering and growing the happiness for self and others without recess to treat it as the...

Why is it that self-confidence is so often cocky and self-assured so often selfish? Neither has to be true. Having confidence doesn’t require being superior over another and being self-assured doesn’t require taking advantage of...

A man’s interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself.

Selfish— a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice.

The world says: “You have needs — satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don’t hesitate to satisfy your needs; indeed, expand your needs and demand more.” This is...

The first sentiment of man was that of his existence, his first care that of preserving it.

gulf of misery and endless wo” (Hel. 5:12).

Nor was her love for Udayan recognizable or intact. Anger was always mounted to it, zigzagging through her like some helplessly mating pair of insects. Anger at him for dying when he might have lived....

People like us, we think differently, don’t we? We are different. We do all the things that others do. But when it comes down to it, we don’t need anyone else. We’re happy doing what...

Nobody knows you as well as our spouse. And that means no one will be quicker to recognize a change when you deliberately start sacrificing your wants and wishes to make sure his or her...

It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures.