Quotes about Selfishness

Blessed are you when you pray for others. Shame on you when you pray out of selfishness and greed.

It is a form of generational narcissism to change texts to suit one's own needs.

He had lived to please himself instead of God all those years, giving little more than lip service to His holy laws. And now when Zechariah cried out to God, his numberless sins swallowed up his prayers before they reached heaven. His guilt filled the yawning gulf between him and God.

Unrealistic neediness is actually greediness in disguise.

If you want to be your own god, you have to settle for living in a tiny universe where there is room for only one person.

If we are to build that Zion of which the prophets have spoken and of which the Lord has given mighty promise, we must set aside our consuming selfishness. We must rise above our love for comfort and ease, and in the very process of effort and struggle, even in our extremity, we shall become better acquainted with our God." — Gordon B. Hinckley

All we hear is "What's the matter with the country?" "What's the matter with the world?" There ain't but one thing wrong with every one of us in the world, and that's selfishness.

Self-seeking is self-destruction

selfish thoughts of all kinds crystallize into habits of self-seeking, which solidify into circumstances more or less distressing.

Joy is as an angel so beautiful and delicate and chaste that she can only dwell with holiness. She cannot remain with selfishness; she is wedded to Love.

I say that man is entitled to his own happiness and that he must achieve it himself. But that he cannot demand that others give up their lives to make him happy.

For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise.