Quotes about Selfishness
Avarice, envy, pride,Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of allOn Fire.
— Dante Alighieri
That is why one of Rich's most powerful songs, and one he enjoyed singing in concert more than any other, is "Greed.
— James Bryan Smith
If you want it your own way, God will let you have it. Hell is the enjoyment of your own way forever.
— Dorothy Sayers
Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction.
— Aesop
Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental human error. The error is thinking that when someone stands in the way of our wants, we can justify getting that person out of our lives. Abortion and racism stem from the same poisonous root, selfishness.
— Alveda King
Doth any man live more to himself, or less to God, than the proud?
— Richard Baxter
Some men think that the globe is a sponge that God puts into their hands to squeeze for their own garden or flower-pot.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Many people are willing to be God-centered as long as they feel that God is man-centered
— John Piper
The attack on "selfishness" is an attack on man's self-esteem; to surrender one, is to surrender the other.
— Ayn Rand
No man that has ever lived has done a thing to please God--primarily. It was done to please himself, then God next.
— Mark Twain
False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons.
— Joseph Franklin Rutherford
Every selfish man, strangely enough, becomes a self slayer
— Sadhu Sundar Singh