Quotes about Selfishness

Some men think that the globe is a sponge that God puts into their hands to squeeze for their own garden or flower-pot.

Many people are willing to be God-centered as long as they feel that God is man-centered

The attack on "selfishness" is an attack on man's self-esteem; to surrender one, is to surrender the other.

No man that has ever lived has done a thing to please God--primarily. It was done to please himself, then God next.

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.

Every selfish man, strangely enough, becomes a self slayer

Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.

Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our good qualities, and to overlook or extenuate our defects.

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiful, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself.

The natural, called in Scripture, the old Man, is steadily the same in Heart and Spirit in every Thing he does, whatever Variety of Names may be given to his Actions. For Self can have no Motion but what is selfish, which Way soever it goes, or whatever it does, either in Church or State. And be assured of this, that Nature in every Man, whether he be learned or unlearned, is this very Self, and can be nothing else, till a Birth of the Deity is brought forth in it.

I had been heaping up my devotions before God, fasting, praying, &c. pretending, and indeed really thinking sometimes, that I was aiming at the glory of God; whereas I never once truly intended it, but only my own happiness.