Quotes about Selfishness

You are a dog in the manger, Cathy, and desire no one to be loved but yourself!

It is strange people should be so greedy when they are alone in the world!

It is so strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world!

It ended. Well, we must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering - and it ended when circumstances caused each to feel that one's interest was not the chief consideration in the other's thoughts.

Some prideful people are not so concerned as to whether their wages meet their needs as they are that their wages are more than someone else's. Their reward is being a cut above the rest. This is the enmity of pride.

Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology.

We can't surrender to the culture. We've minimized the role of fathers, so we've created a generation of barbarians, children who become men without growing up. They stay in boyhood through their 20s and 30s, sometimes their whole lives. They think of themselves first, indulge in pornography, do what they feel like, leave their wives, and culture, and churches to raise their children.

Nothing is more poisonous than the spirit of entitlement that permeates our culture and sometimes, sadly, our churches.

People living in the vanity of their own mind not only destroy themselves, but far too often, they bring destruction to others around them.

If you can't be corrected, you have a problem with pride. If you rebel against authority, if you want to take all the credit and glory to yourself, if you say "I" too often, then you have a problem with pride. It

An immature Christian is selfish, self-centered, and finds it difficult to be happy unless he is getting what he wants in life.

Our lives are going to be less than God's best if we are consumed with "self." Self-centeredness keeps us from seeing the needs of others and causes us to miss the blessings that come when we serve. We don't have to totally forget about our own needs. But we can chase selfishness away by not always thinking about our needs first.