Selfishness Quotes

You can't get what you want, if the intentions are solely directed for self-benefits.

~ Ashish Patel

I am a selfish, conceited, impudent little animal, it is true, but, after all, I am only one grand conglomeration of Wanting…

~ Mary Maclane

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

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Act as if you don't know me, and i will make it seem as though you don't exist.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Greed is the fast-track to poverty.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Should happiness and success be hidden, in view of the misery and poverty around. Would it be a sign of selfishness and un-intellectual behavior, if we admit to a pursuit of happiness? Could it, on the contrary, not work out as a motivation and an incentive? When giving voice to our happiness, could it not be perceived as a positive challenge? Could happiness not be contagious and become a salutary infectious syndrome? A beneficial infection. ( Happy days are back again )

~ Erik Pevernagie

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

The best way to detect the destructive element in someone is to watch closely their behavioural pattern when given authority over poverty.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

In my philosophy, I think churches should not argue and be greedy with money. I think different churches like the synagogues, mosques, and Christian/Catholic churches should focus on bringing peace in the world and not compete. I know in today's world, people are defending one religion to another and try to show off. Has God, Jesus, or the disciples mentioned about competition in the Bible? I don't think so. Because if we compete, we turn to selfish needs and be greedy. So whatever religion you're in, have faith in it as much as you can and help others. Because in every religion I know, you have to give back the poor and have peace in your mind.

~ Simi Sunny

Never stand in the way of letting God use people’s actions, in order to solve a greater issue in the world.

~ Shannon L. Alder

We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results.

~ Henry Melvill

Fear says that what God has called me to is blatantly impossible. Selfishness says that the cost is unacceptably prohibitive. My humanity harbors other lesser agendas that seduce me to my own death. And I would be wise to believe none of it.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The snowball of selfishness quickly becomes an avalanche.

~ Angela Lynne Craig

He wouldn't hear of anybody's paying taxes, though he was very patriotic.

~ Charles Dickens

Even the respectable have a small anarchist hidden on the inside.

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

Lust, anger, attachment, greed, over pride be,Jealousy, selfishness, injustice, cruelty, ego truly;- 153 -

~ Munindra Misra

Start thinking of your guilt as being selfish, because guilt blocks opportunities from arriving for those you care about and for you.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Maybe you receive pain selfishly — thinking only of yourself. The cycle of pain wounds every participant, both victim and aggressor.

~ Bryant Mcgill

People who take you for granted would be mad at those who regard you as something.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

It's fallacious reasoning for the atheist to hate all religion due to men who manipulate religion to fit their own agendas. They are counterparts, therefore, if Truth is true, partners in crime. To believers, the atheist and the religiously corrupt boil down to the same person, the self-righteous: one denies Truth to fit his own agenda; the other manipulates Truth to fit his own agenda.

~ Criss Jami

I knew what it felt like to have no say in who you were as a sexual being. It didn’t just strip away your dignity. It stripped away everything you were: your identity, your self-respect, your pleasure. Because it was all about the pleasure of the other person take, take, taking whatever they wanted from you, even if it was uncomfortable, or caused you pain. Even if you died from it, the other person still wouldn’t care, because it was all about them.

~ Jess C. Scott

Suppose you were the last one left? Suppose you did that to yourself?

~ Cormac Mccarthy

It is pleasure that lurks in the practice of every one of your virtues. Man performs actions because they are good for him, and when they are good for other people as well they are thought virtuous: if he finds pleasure in helping others he is benevolent; if he finds pleasure in working for society he is public-spirited; but it is for your private pleasure that you give twopence to a beggar as much as it is for my private pleasure that I drink another whiskey and soda. I, less of a humbug than you, neither applaud myself for my pleasure nor demand your admiration.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

The individualism of current economic theory is manifest in the purely self-interested behavior it generally assumes. It has no real place for fairness, malevolence, and benevolence, nor for the preservation of human life or any other moral concern.

~ Herman E. Daly

To behold virtue in her proper form is nothing else but to contemplate morality stripped of all admixture of sensible things and of every spurious ornament of reward or self-love. How much she then eclipses everything else that appears charming to the affections, every one may readily perceive with the least exertion of his reason, if it be not wholly spoiled for abstraction.

~ Immanuel Kant

...perhaps great sins start as simple weakness, and the consistent placing of self before others.

~ Anne Perry

Blame is a human concept, one of its blackest and most selfish and self-binding.

~ Patrick Ness

You were born, your life was to serve other souls,Love and serve or you'll be left alone,You worship not GOD but listen to Satan,That's why try not to think of going to Heaven,Being selfish will for sure lead you to pain,You will burn in fire and the GOD loving people will dance in the rain,The ego you have doesn't make any sense,One day you'll die and you won't have a second chance... It's 2:41 Am ~Me” ― Mr.Khan

~ Mr.khan

You are having a bad day? Remember it could always be worse... It could be me having a bad day!

~ Mark W. Boyer

We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.

~ Booker T. Washington

Don't feel better than anybody, because you feel like something. Always have it at the back of your mind that you were nothing before you became something, and that thing you supposed to be is absolutely nothing.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

When you get born your father and mother lost something out of themselves, and they are going to bust a ham trying to get it back, and you are it. They know they can't get it all back but they will get as big a chunk out of you as they can.

~ Robert Penn Warren

Your love life is insignificant when it comes to raising your children to be respectable human beings. The moment you see them suffer or lower their standards because of your selfishness, is the day you should realize that nothing matters more than them. You are not just the queen or king of your fairy tale. The real story of your life is the gift of time God gave you with them.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Just because you have stolen someone's heart, luckily owned and occupied as a home, doesn't give you the audacity to enforce hurtful policies.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

People's behaviors are messages, not a diagnosis because I can no longer discern the world's version of insanity.

~ Shannon L. Alder

There are some people that see the half full cup and get upset about where the other half of the cup went... With an attitude like that, they will never be happy. I see a half full cup and I immediately take half of someone else’s cup and then I have a full cup and I’m happy. With the right attitude, life is really very simple. Peter Pan from 'Leaving Neverland' (Why Little Boys Shouldn't Run Big Corporations)

~ Daniel Prokop

I think sometimes we gravitate toward broken people, not ’cause we want to fix them, but ’cause we want to fix ourselves. The line between selflessness and selfishness is thin and intangible. It’s imaginary. We can’t see it. People project their problems onto other people’s problems. It happens all the time. We see ourselves in each other. We can’t help it. It’s human nature.

~ Kris Kidd

You selfish bitch!She had known for a long time that putting her needs above those of Adam's wife and children was indeed selfish. She had no real answer to the accusation thrown at her.I'm sorry she said, with her head in her hands.you're sorry? came her adversary's disbelieving reply.I am. I'm sorry he married you when he was in love with me. I'm sorry I couldn't have loved someone else. I'm sorry your marriage is a joke and I'm sorry that I'm alone. I'm sorry for a lot of things - for you, for your kids, for me and for him. I spend most of my time being sorry.For a moment there was silence at the end of the line.all you had to do was stay awayif only I could have. tears escaped and raced down her cheeks.I hate you!

~ Anna Mcpartlin

I thought he'd pick me, I know he has kids, but when it came down to it, I really thought he'd pick me.Tears rolled down her face and her nose ran. She sniffed.I know I'm selfishYou're humanI wanted him to abandon his children

~ Anna Mcpartlin

The sad reality of Mankind: Faith is the currency people trade in, through their ego and selfish ways.

~ Unarine Ramaru