Selfish Quotes

Part of the treasure in heaven that Jesus talks about is the feeling of purpose and satisfaction a person has when they know they are performing the will of God. Those who put themselves and money first often complain about life feeling empty and meaningless. Jesus pays those who serve him with meaning and spiritual abundance in their lives and hearts instead of money.

~ Tim Crawshaw

The pleasure or the benefit that the object of our deed derives from it is every now and then greater or even more important than the one we derive from the deed.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It is humanly impossible to be selfless. As a matter of fact, human beings are inherently selfish.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

She wondered if it counted as being good if you did the good thing for purely selfish reasons. Probably not, but who cared. What was important was what you did, not how you felt.

~ Emily Gould

Beware of those who are stingy, for they would rather sting you than give you anything.

~ Suzy Kassem

When you're appeasing too much, you might be egotistically over-estimating everyone's need for your approval.

~ Criss Jami

Sometimes you need to be a little selfish because kindness is seldom appreciated.

~ Chirag Tulsiani

For the case that one thinks he has plateaued in life, God has already set yet another peak for him to reach: and a much more challenging peak than his own, one that which is to serve others.

~ Criss Jami

The thing that I’m most likely to collapse under is not the weight of the stresses that stand around me, but the ego that sits within me.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If it’s about me, I can be assured that there will be a bunch of empty chairs in the auditorium of my life; save the one I’m sitting in.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If it has anything to do with me, it has nothing to do with sacrifice.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If I’m my biggest fan, the only person in the stadium is probably me.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Self-serving biases and self-centered agendas are cotton jammed in the ears of our conscience. Even if truth shouts, we can’t hear it.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The shortest short-term investment is to serve ourselves.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

To be an end in myself is to bring an end to myself.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I think myself so terribly ‘clever’ that the need for God is blatantly irrelevant. And all the while, in the rapidly growing mess that I’m ‘cleverly’ creating, I rather quickly begin to realize that the only thing that is relevant is His relevance.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

You can be yourself without pursuing yourself. Have you ever seen a dog chase his own tail? He just runs in circles.

~ Criss Jami

Being goal-oriented instead of self-oriented is crucial. I know so many people who want to be writers. But let me tell you, they really don't want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they had a book in print. They don't want to go through the work of getting the damn book out. There is a huge difference.

~ James A. Michener

To my own demise, I rarely ask why I’m hungry because I’m focusing all of my energies on getting fed. And if I persist in such a diminishing cycle, in all probability I will eventually starve to death because I have chosen to gorge myself on the very things that will keep me empty.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

When you strip away all the layers one by one, not much remains to “discover.” You will never find real meaning among your selfish interests, feelings, and aspirations. The answers do not lie within you.

~ James C. Dobson

Loving yourself doesn't make you selfish. When done correctly, the exact opposite occurs, because you know that selfish behaviors are negative for your mind, body and spirit.

~ Donald L. Hicks

I doubt if I have made the best use of all my calamities. Soft, amiable natures they would have refined to saintliness; of strong, evil spirits they would have made demons; as for me, I have only been a woe-struck and selfish woman.

~ Charlotte Brontë

...don't be self-conscious - other people are completely unaware of you and more concerned with how they appear ...

~ John Geddes

In my impatience I become convinced that this desire of mine should have been fulfilled yesterday, when it belongs to a tomorrow that yesterday would have killed had I had my way.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Saturated Arrogance...imprisoned musescried to be freeshe took away their quillsand saiddo not bother me...

~ Muse

She wanted to get some personal profit out of things, and she rejected as useless all that did not contribute to the immediate desires of her heart, being of a temperament more sentimental than artistic, looking for emotions, not landscapes.

~ Gustave Flaubert

Those who make hostility a daily manner are often left in the lurch at difficult times.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Saturated Arrogance...she rebuked those about herin darkness did she dwella pathetic historyall mortal man would tell..

~ Muse

Greed is the fast-track to poverty.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

To be blessed and yet permit gluttony to blind me to the blessings is to banish myself to a life of unrelenting poverty even though I might be utterly engulfed in the embrace of a million marvelous blessings.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Some selfish people rise because some kind people haven't learned the art of saying no to them.

~ Sanhita Baruah

It is not selfishness or unselfishness that distinguishes love from non-love, it is the aim of the action.

~ M. Scott Peck

Helpful is happy.Selfish is sad.(It's not uncommon to confuse the two.)

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

As you can see marriage is about putting away selfishness and taking on the concept of teamwork.

~ Jim George

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?

~ Cindy Woodsmall

Good-nature, or what is often considered as such, is the most selfish of all the virtues: it is nine times out of ten mere indolence of disposition.

~ William Hazlitt

Yet, there is a sense of some deep sort that runs entirely contrary to human nature; that in putting ourselves first, we must by necessity put others first.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Maturity is when you're able to say, 'It's not just them. It's me.

~ Criss Jami

At the very point that I’ve taken something for granted, I have at that same moment taken it to its grave. And if I look around, I realize I’ve cultivated quite a cemetery.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

To assume that I and I alone have all the answers is to eventually find myself entirely alone without any answers.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough