Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice.
Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.
The reason why wicked men and devils hate God is, because they see Him in relation to themselves. Their hearts rise up in rebellion, because they see Him opposed to their selfishness.
As you help those in need, selfishness will fall away. And, without even noticing you will find your own fulfillment.
Be, as many now are, luxurious to yourself, parsimonious to your friends. [Lat. , Esto, ut nunc multi, dives tibi pauper amicis. ]
If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride because it shows you trust in your own power. Your self-sufficiency, your selfishness and your intellectual pride will inhibit His coming to live in your heart because God cannot fill what is already full. It is as simple as that.
The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade.
Most human beings know only the language of exploitation. Due to their selfishness, they are unable to consider others.
You fueled my obession, even encouraged it and your selfishness ruined my life
This laudable quality is commonly known by the name of Manners and Good-breeding, and consists in a Fashionable Habit, acquir'd by Precept and Example, of flattering the Pride and Selfishness of others, and concealing our own with Judgment and Dexterity.
Selfishness doesn't consist in a love to yourself, but in a big degree of such love.
Selfishness in art, as in other things, is sensibility kept at home.
According to the first image of international relations, the locus of the important causes of war is found in the nature and behavior of man. Wars result from selfishness, from misdirected aggressive impulses, from stupidity.
Real love, no matter how unworthy the object, is a glorious adventure. It bursts the shackles of selfishness. One's world is bigger, broader; one's sympathies are amazingly more tender. No matter what the result, if you haven't really loved, you haven't really lived.
Like nature itself, modern economic life is driven by relentless competition and unbridled selfishness. Or is it?
One of the unseen benefits of having children is that they deliver you from your own selfishness. There's no going back.
By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature but as a robber.
Selfishness can be a virtue. Selfishness is essential to survival, and without survival we cannot protect those whom we love more than ourselves.
Marriage is a state that is attended with so much care and trouble, that it is a kind of faulty indulgence and selfishness to livesingle, in order to avoid the difficulties it is attended with.
Selfishness at the expense of others happiness is demonism.