Gordon B. Hinckley Quotes

The flesh, or human nature, is generally lazy and self-centered.

Our true passions are selfish.

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness.

We're not all nice, and there are a lot of levels of ambition and niceness.

We all get self-centered.

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.

Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic.

Men's moral principles are weak enough without their being made subordinate to selfishness; and their selfishness is quite active enough, without any such effort as Christianity makes to constitute it the mainspring of all their conduct.

It's so easy to be selfish in your 20s and not want to sacrifice.

me-firstism

The only one that matters is me. I am the only one that matters.

We don't plan to be good or bad. We just think, 'What do I want now? I want coffee now. I want the paper now.'

Majority of minds are warped into the belief of the only person worth helping is themself.

People are selfish, man. They want what they want; they don't care what you want.

The natural life in each of us is something self-centred, something that wants to be petted and admired, to take advantage of other lives, to exploit the whole universe.

Every true passion thinks only of itself.

Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.

We're into an age of excessive individuals, all right. We're into the age were independence, autonomy, convenience, sometimes selfishness. The new trinity of me, myself and I, seems to dominate. We know that's contrary to the very nature of the human person. The very nature of the human person needs God and needs other people.

I think it's the ego in us that screws us up.

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.

All is egotism. The only people whose mainspring is not egotism are the dead and perhaps idiots.

Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.

Man is essentially a selfish creature. The differences in the degree with which this developed are infinite.

Ego gets you inches but it doesn't get you impact.