Selfishness Quotes

If we focus on ourselves alone, we run our nation down.

~ Sunday Adelaja

How much larger your life would be if your self could become smaller in it; if you could really look at other men with common curiosity and pleasure; if you could see them walking as they are in their sunny sefishness and their virile indifference! You would begin to be interested in them, because they are not interested in you. You would break out of this tiny and tawdry theatre in which your own little plot is always played, and you would find yourself under a freer sky, in a street full of splendid strangers.

~ G.k. Chesterton

Survival is a passive way of saying “my needs are greater than yours.

~ Caroline George

Choose altruism, because selfishism is a lonely, cold, dark hole.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

The first sentiment of man was that of his existence, his first care that of preserving it.

~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Vivien thought how ugly adults could be, how weak. So used to getting what they wanted that they didn't know the first thing about being brave.

~ Kate Morton

To love can mean 'to love oneself,' and often love is no more than a juxtaposition of two solitudes.

~ Pope Paul Vi

Of all the vices which degrade the human character, Selfishness is the most odious and contemptible. An undue love of Self leads to the most mon¬strous crimes and occasions the greatest misfortunes both in States and Families. As a selfish man will impoverish his family and often bring them to ruin, so a selfish king brings ruin on his people and often plunges them into war.

~ William Makepeace Thackeray

If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself. You have a duty to worship God, not because He will be imperfect and unhappy if you do not, but because you will be imperfect and unhappy.

~ Fulton J. Sheen

It is, I think, a far lesser offense to blatantly ignore God’s directions for our lives rather than arrogantly think ourselves shrewd enough to be able to bend them to our liking without breaking them and therefore breaking ourselves.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what they want.

~ Mother Teresa

[Dona Maria] saw that the people of this world moved about in an armor of egotism, drunk with self-gazing, athirst for compliments, hearing little of what was said to them, unmoved by the accidents that befell their closest friends, in dread of all appeals that might interrupt their long communion with their own desires.

~ Thornton Wilder

I spend my life constantly calling in ‘imaginary’ debts that aren’t owed to me in order to avoid the ‘real’ debts that I owe to others, and so everybody ends up bankrupt.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Sacrifice” and “self” both begin with the same letter, but the spelling is way different after that.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I pretend to give gifts that people pretend to be gifts so that I can pretend that I gave something that actually cost me something. And what pretending of this sort gives me is the gift of a pretend life.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The biggest impediment to loving life is our inflated egos. Only by suppressing our ego and controlling our selfish thoughts can we truly comprehend the immaculate beauty of every day unfolding before us.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

An obese ego is just about the heaviest thing you’ll ever carry. So maybe you should stop feeding it.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

You can dress up greed, but you can’t stop the stench.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Love in the service of self is greed in disguise.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The image of God infused in us never sees the light of day in the service of self, but it becomes the light of day in the service of others.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Jesus had no regard for the lifeboat politics you and I live within every day.

~ Donald Miller

We tend to have a limited concept of spiritual death as saying no only to things we want or covet -- our guilty pleasures and selfish ambitions. But in reality, it means dying inwardly to whatever has control over us. The thing that really controls us may not be what we want. It may be what we fear. Fear can dominate our lives just as strongly as desire.

~ Nancy Pearcey

There is just too much cruelty, selfishness and corruption in the world not to want to crush the poisonous will of those who cause it by writing about it as powerfully as I can.

~ Carla H. Krueger

As utterly irrational as it might seem, the greed within me has the most limited vision I can possibly imagine as it has eyes only for the few things it doesn’t have, and it is completely blind to all the many remarkable things that it does.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Let us admit, without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct interests and can, without felony, stipulate for those interests and defend them. The present has its pardonable amount of egotism; momentary life has its claims, and cannot be expected to sacrifice itself incessantly to the future. The generation which is in its turn passing over the earth is not forced to abridge its life for the sake of the generations, its equals after all, whose turn shall come later on.

~ Victor Hugo

If I’m asking what kind of ‘return’ I should be expecting on the sacrifices I’m making, I have in that question revealed the need to ‘return’ that question to wherever I found it and have the word ‘return’ edited out of it.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Not everyone who has helped or is helping you wanted or wants to help you.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Sacrifice is a noun in my vocabulary that should be a verb in my life.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Let us not be like the forest fox foraging for food for itself forever!Let us be like the assiduous ant, always accumulating ample assets for all ants with altruism and all-round assistance.

~ Ankala V Subbarao

Contrary to popular opinion, we are all a vast brotherhood of human beings whose very survival hinges not on what we keep, but on what we give. And it is in the giving that we not only survive to live another day, but we thrive to celebrate another day.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If I give with the motive to get, regardless of the degree to which that motive besets me, I will walk away impoverished and I will leave those to whom I have given just as impoverished as I have now found myself.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I cannot calculate nor attempt to manage sacrifice, for to do so is to attempt to sacrifice comfortably. And it is in the attempt to sacrifice comfortably that I begin to realize that the desire for comfort is in reality the demand that I put myself first, and there is nothing of sacrifice in that.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Everything that is wrong with this sinful world, is rooted in the selfishness of man. Rom. 8:5

~ Felix Wantang

I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

To a vampire, there is only selfishness.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

You, sir, are not only a selfish asshole, but you're a coward. You didn't have the balls to stand and fight for what was yours, instead you chose to flee and force others into a fight that wasn't even theirs to begin with.

~ Rose Wynters

Bravery is not an act of intelligence, it is just selfishness and stupidity.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

A humanitarian seldom makes a good lover. For a lover’s world revolves around their lover, while a humanitarian’s world revolves around the world.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.

~ Immanuel Kant

When I am not king, then THE Kingdom has its best chance of breaking through.

~ Richard Rohr