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.

Throughout the 1980’s, we did hear too much about individual gain and the ethos of selfishness and greed. We did not hear enough a bout how to be a good member of a community, to...

The selfishness of an age that has devoted itself to the mere cult of pleasure has tainted the whole human race with an error that makes all our acts more or less lies against God.

Am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in the hands of the most devoted worker in this cause. The example of great and pure personages is the only...

One can change the small minds, but it is tad difficult to do it with the small heart whose soul is in small mind only.

To be blessed and yet permit gluttony to blind me to the blessings is to banish myself to a life of unrelenting poverty even though I might be utterly engulfed in the embrace of a...

Mankind, in all his lusts, punishes himself. The gods have to do very little.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we are moved to prevent suffering, not just avenge it?

The faculty to think objectively is reason; the emotional attitude behind reason is that of humility. To be objective, to use one’s reason, is possible only if one has achieved an attitude of humility, if...

What Melanie did was no more than all Southern girls were taught to do: to make those about them feel at ease and pleased with themselves. It was this happy feminine conspiracy which made Southern...

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives… I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that...

It was only that she wanted him to be happy, resenting, however, his inability to be so with things as they were, and never acknowledging that though she did want him to be happy, it...

I always knew he was selfish and self-indulgent and kind of lazy; those are practically prerequisites for playing lead guitar.

I don’t want to be just another thing mary elizabeth is in charge of

Each one of us is selfish, including me.

It is an infirmity of our nature to mingle our interests and prejudices with the operation of our reasoning powers, and attribute to the objects of our likes and dislikes qualities they do not possess...

…only in relatively recent times have people decided that “because I want to” is sufficient reason for annoying others.

In 1948, psychologists asked more than 10,000 adolescents whether they considered themselves to be a very important person. At that point, 12 percent said yes. The same question was asked in 2003, and this time...

…children are at heart selfish, and reasonably so, for they are programmed for survival.

Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and preoccupations loom large. But when we focus on others, our world expands. Our...

If we are to build that Zion of which the prophets have spoken and of which the Lord has given mighty promise, we must set aside our consuming selfishness. We must rise above our love...

Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.

Don’t ever feel sad about who you are. Don’t wish to be a daughter or son to a wealthy home, just because you think you’re poor. Look! Everybody’s poor, i discovered it when i realized...

Being a ‘good’ parent is more about the parent, and, less about the ‘supposedly-could-have-been-bad’ child.

[G]iving yourself some loving attention is not selfish. It is sensible. If you feel loved and cherished–even if it is only by yourself–then you will have more love to give to others, too. (83)

God comes right out and tells us why he gives us more money than we need. It’s not so we can find more ways to spend it. It’s not so we can indulge ourselves and...

That she had loved Sylveste because he was such a self-important bastard and made something noble of being a self-important bastard, did it with such utter aplomb that it became a kind of virtue, like...

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

Committing suicide essentially said to friends and loved ones and the world at large that you were the only thing that mattered, that your problems were hopeless that you deserved to escape from them and...

A motto of many politicians, public servants and money bags: Ask not ‘What can I do for you?’ but ‘What can I do you for?

There should always be one more cat than person, so everyone has one to pet, and I have two to myself.

He can’t play with other children. Because of their age and selfishness, they really don’t play together.

My illness helped me to see that what was missing in society is what was missing in me: a little heart, a lot of brotherhood. The ’80s were about acquiring — acquiring wealth, power, prestige....

We Are Always Scared of Wild Beasts, Yet We Are Unaware About The Wildest Beast Within Us Which Does More Harm Than The Ordinary One….

He did not smile. ‘We are the keepers of the world’s greatest treasures. Does that mean nothing to you?’ “My children are my greatest treasures,’ she said. ‘Stone no matter how old, means nothing to...

Better not to plant seeds of selfishness than try to eradicate them once they have grown into giant weeds. (91)

Every small, unselfish action nudges the world into a better path. An accumulation of small acts can change the world.

It is pleasure that lurks in the practice of every one of your virtues. Man performs actions because they are good for him, and when they are good for other people as well they are...

It was because all we wanted was each other’s constant love and attention and for no one else to receive that love and attention, which is a selfish and difficult place to be in a...

An inextricable relationship between the foolishness and the selfishness is like that of an egg and a chicken. No one knows which came first and perhaps even none cares about it.

The image of God infused in us never sees the light of day in the service of self, but it becomes the light of day in the service of others.

If we want to live perfectly happy lives…we must drive out selfish character tendencies such as pride, ego, vanity, jealousy, lusts, envy and worry. When we learn to live selflessly, putting others before ourselves, committing...

The love of our neighbor is the only door out of the dungeon of self, where we mope and mow, striking sparks, and rubbing phosphorescences out of the walls, and blowing our own breath in...

How much larger your life would be if your self could become smaller in it; if you could really look at other men with common curiosity and pleasure; if you could see them walking as...

It’s a shame that we humans are never able to pull in the same direction . . . [n]ot even when confronted by infinity.

Lust, anger, attachment, greed, over pride be,Jealousy, selfishness, injustice, cruelty, ego truly;- 153 –

When I am not king, then THE Kingdom has its best chance of breaking through.

Let us admit, without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct interests and can, without felony, stipulate for those interests and defend them. The present has its pardonable amount of egotism; momentary life has its...