Quotes about Selfishness

tendency of team members to seek out individual recognition and attention at the expense of results

People always tend to help others just so that they can feel better than what they really are

What did an invisible God want from a bunch of frail, selfish people? The only thing Landon could figure was that He'd like for them to learn to love and help one another. Why else would they be living on such a difficult planet?

Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.

Second, the origin of evil is not the Creator but the creature's freely choosing sin and selfishness.

2. Greed, or acquisitive desire.

I realized I knew nothing. And what I did know, I had cloaked in my own selfish interpretations. In so doing, I had turned the truth into lies.

Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.

Forgiveness is the key which unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness. The forgiveness of Jesus not only takes away our sins, it makes them as if they had never been.

When you start to avoid what hurts you, what happens? Over time, your spiritual side grows stronger. And your selfish side starts to die.

Instead of seeking to serve one another, we wrongly believe that there's one person out there who exists solely to make us happy.

All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair.