selfishness on Altruism

Researchers at the University of Kentucky and University of Central Florida who explored the neurobiology of the selfish-selfless spectrum found that most of us are neither extremely selfish (which re...

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

Moralistic behavior change done for one's self simply manipulates and leverages radical selfishness without challenging it.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

Customs are generally unselfish. Habits are nearly always selfish.

Gratitude in the generality of men is only a strong and secret desire of receiving greater favours.

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

Selfish people pursue gain at others’ expense. But God’s riches are infinite. When you serve Him and others, you store up treasures in Heaven. This doesn’t reduce the treasures available to others. Ev...

The story is told (as in, it’s made up!) of a small dog that had been struck by a car and lay wounded by the side of the road. A doctor driving by noticed the dog was still alive, stopped his car, pic...

In 1976, Richard Dawkins claimed in his bestselling book The Selfish Gene that we can’t expect humans to be anything but selfish: “We are survival machines—robot vehicles blindly programmed to prese...

“Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.”

If our goods are not available to the community, they are stolen goods.

Selfishness is the making a man's self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doeth.

There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pa...

Free us, Lord, from our obsession with ourselves long enough to care for others; to be so concerned about the well-being of the human community that me don’t have to worry about our place, our church,...

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

There is nothing in this world so empty as getting what you want.

Our infinite obligations to God do not fill our hearts half as much as a petty uneasiness of our own; nor His infinite perfections as much as our smallest wants.

Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.

One thing is clear to me, that no indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness.

Let this be thy whole Endeavour, this thy prayer, this thy desire, that thou mayest be stripped of all selfishness, and with entire simplicity follow Jesus only.

All the good maxims which are in the world fail when applied to one's self.

Constantly choose rather to want less, than to have more.

At this very moment you and I are either committing [selfishness], or about to commit it, or repenting it.

Many people live righteously for selfish or misguided reasons. If you are striving to please God, examine your motives today.

I think the most selfish, self-centered individual in this world is not an unsaved person. It's a Christian who accepts the salvation God offers freely and goes out and lives for himself.

“I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.”

Father God, you see us; you have compassion; and you care for your greatest creation – people. You have also called us to notice, to listen, and to love others. Yet in our selfishness, we have ignored...

A man is hindered and distracted in proportion as he draws outward things to himself.

God of mercy, we ignore the needs of people around us all too often. We get caught up in our own issues and forget that there are millions of people who struggle for basic necessities on a daily basis...