Selfishness Quotes

His Kingship, precisely because it is so broad, so total, is doomed to be rejected by anybody who is still into tribalism, or small belonging systems. We don't really like the big Kingdom if it gets in the way of our smaller kingdoms, and it always does.

~ Richard Rohr

When God interrupts your life, He is calling you to follow Him in a new way. By breaking into your settled pattern, He is moving you to a new place where you can make fresh discoveries of His grace. Embracing God’s call is never easy, but this is where the pursuit of a God-centered life begins, and where the shame of a self-centered life is exposed.

~ Colin S. Smith

Walter had never liked cats. They'd seemed to him the sociopaths of the pet world, a species domesticated as an evil necessary for the control of rodents and subsequently fetishized the way unhappy countries fetishize their militaries, saluting the uniforms of killers as cat owners stroke their animals' lovely fur and forgive their claws and fangs. He'd never seen anything in a cat's face but simpering incuriosity and self-interest; you only had to tease one with a mouse-toy to see where it's true heart lay...cats were all about using people

~ Jonathan Franzen

Despair is a wholly selfish response to fortune’s slings and arrows.

~ Rick Yancey

But then, I knew so little about my mother over the last decade of her life. I had been too wrapped up in my own drama.

~ Mitch Albom

I used to send my characters into a fire that necessarily consumed them, but I have learned, a little, how to send them through the fire to a new place. The characters who do not change — most notably Nakota in Cipher, Bibi in Skin, and Lena in Kink — are motivated by an essential selfishness or self-centeredness, an unwillingness to relinquish control to the process, a refusal to become.

~ Kathe Koja

More or less we are all Selfish. When it's come to Friendship, I do think that fish cant jump onto the ship!

~ Shah Moazzem

Lovemaking takes time!It is a myth for lovemaking to be quick and smooth. To find pleasure in each other, both men and women need to take time to explore each other with their hands; their lips and they need to be open to each other in a mutual, consensual, and non-judgmental style.sure

~ J.f. Kelly

It's a shame that we humans are never able to pull in the same direction . . . [n]ot even when confronted by infinity.

~ Gentry Lee

O young girl, throw yourself again into the water so that I might have a second time the chance to save the two of us! A second time, eh, what imprudence! Suppose, dear sir, someone actually took our word for it? It would have to be fulfilled. Brr...! the water is so cold! But let's reassure ourselves. It's too late now, it will always be too late. Fortunately!

~ Albert Camus

Setting boundaries is a way of caring for myself. It doesn't make me mean, selfish, or uncaring because I don't do things your way. I care about me too.

~ Christine Morgan

What do you want to say to me?’‘Nothing—just to talk about the profession I am entering. I am about to practice virtue in order to find a man who loves it only to destroy it' [replied Mademoiselle Vesian.]‘That is it exactly; and believe me, everything in this life is much the same. We refer everything to ourselves, and each of us is a tyrant. That is why the best of mortals is he who is tolerant.

~ Giacomo Casanova

I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment.

~ John Fowles

You made me hate the person I was becoming—only because you wanted me to—and for that, you will never be forgiven.

~ Ahmed Mostafa

Hate the sin, love the sinner.” (Gandhi) - Restrict the damager and make selfish actions unworthy together, but let them know that its not hatred. Help another to have a better life and all have a benefit.

~ L.h.

Why--? he jerked his thumb in the direction of the young, when they're so lovely--She too looked at the girl, who was fastening a flower that had come undone in the front of her frock. She smiled. She said nothing. Then half consciously she echoed his question without a meaning in her echo, Why?He was dashed for a moment. It seemed to him that she refused to help him. And he wanted her to help him. Why should she not take the weight off his shoulders and give him what he longed for --assurance, certainty? Because she too was deformed like the rest of them? He looked down at her hands. They were strong hands; fine hands; but if it were a question, he thought, watching the fingers curl slightly, of my children, of my possession, it would be one rip down the belly; or teeth in the soft fur of the throat. We cannot help each other, he thought, we are all deformed. Yet, disagreeable as it was to him to remove her from the eminence upon which he placed her, perhaps she was right, he thought, and we who make idols of other people, who endow this man, that woman, with power to lead us, only add to the deformity, and stoop ourselves.

~ Virginia Woolf

How good is good enough,since you are only good for your selfishness.

~ Peter Adejimi

You have a good heart and you think the good thing is to be guilty and kind but it's not always kind to be gentle and soft, there's a genuine violence softness and kindness visit on people. Sometimes self-interested is the most generous thing you can be.

~ Tony Kushner

Confession is for the confessor. It makes you feel good, it ruins the lives of everyone else. It’s a selfish thing to do. Don’t confess.

~ Jake Adelstein

Don't mistake keen, honest observations as complaints. When you receive a help, a donation or a favour, never forget to be grateful and thankful for the ones who have been there for you.Learn to respect the space of people whose hearts have been treated like a doormat but they have answered more important priorities which all contribute towards the best of the welfare of the recipients of their generous and humble commitment among their choices and decisions for whom and with whom to reach out for. ~ Angelica Hopes, an excerpt from my novel, If I Could Tell You

~ Angelica Hopes

I’m selfish.Selfish enough to want it all.And I know if I don’t have you . . .. . . I don’t have anything.

~ Katie Klein

The world says: You have needs -- satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don't hesitate to satisfy your needs; indeed, expand your needs and demand more. This is the worldly doctrine of today. And they believe that this is freedom. The result for the rich is isolation and suicide, for the poor, envy and murder.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Manifest plainness,Embrace simplicity,Reduce selfishness,Have few desires.

~ Lao Tzu

I constantly pack my pockets full of worthless trinkets, and in such misguided gorging I leave my heart empty and my soul emaciated because I have forgotten everything but trinkets.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

A cause that only serves me is much like a door on the edge of a cliff, it doesn’t open to anywhere good.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Paltry supply with capable means is one face of iniquity.

~ Andy Harglesis

No one as consistently, spectacularly, and admittedly greedy as Donald Trump could possibly give two poops about us. Absolutely impossible. I will go so far as to say that, if elected, Donald Trump would be the least likely President in the history of our nation to do anything for any of us that wouldn't also benefit him.

~ Gizmo

In choosing to exchange precious principles for worthless impulses, I have far too often bankrupted my soul in order to bankroll my ego.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I too often allow people to become a sterile commodity to be bartered in the service of my greed, and in doing something so absurdly reckless I foolishly barter away everything that meets my need.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Take taking from those that give & nobody anywhere will need any more such gifts.

~ Kenneth Patchen

Human beings are obscured by their desire to have and their greed to own preventing their natural cause of being

~ Victor Manan Nyambala

Some people want what they are not willing to give.

~ Brenda Johnson Padgitt

Now, he'd loved money for money's sake. He loved the feel of it, not only in his hands, but also in his heart.

~ Steven J. Carroll

Selfish needs, wants, and desires needed to be obliterated. Greed, overindulgence, and gluttony had to be expunged from human behavior. The solution was in self-control, in minimalism, in sparse living conditions; one simple and a brand-new dictionary filled with words everyone would understand.

~ Tahereh Mafi

In selfish men caution is as secure an armour for their foes as for themselves.

~ Bram Stoker

A motto of many politicians, public servants and money bags: Ask not 'What can I do for you?' but 'What can I do you for?

~ H.m. Forester

I have nothing to do with others, I am only concerned with myself. I take advantage of the fact that the majority of mankind are led by certain rewards to do things which directly or indirectly tend to my convenience.’‘It seems to me an awfully selfish way of looking at things,’ said Philip.‘But are you under the impression that men ever do anything except for selfish reasons?’‘Yes.’‘It is impossible that they should. You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognise the inevitable selfishness of humanity. You demand unselfishness from others, which is a preposterous claim that they should sacrifice their desires to yours. Why should they? When you are reconciled to the fact that each is for himself in the world you will ask less from your fellows. They will not disappoint you, and you will look upon them more charitably. Men seek but one thing in life—their pleasure.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

The selfishness of an age that has devoted itself to the mere cult of pleasure has tainted the whole human race with an error that makes all our acts more or less lies against God.

~ Thomas Merton

Selfishness is a giant in destruction of relationships.

~ Irina Sopas

The most prevalent form of slavery is being a slave of your own insecurities Or exploiting another's vulnerabilities. Lust, greed and anger are the pitfalls of the short sighted. Long term business is not possible through lust, greed, anger or guile; it is done based on 'sustainable' relationships; And that is possible when happiness is your goal and each individual you transact with, is a 'strong adult Individual'. We need to invest in ourselves to make us one and in others to help them become the same. It IS in my Selfish interest to have strong, adult individuals around!

~ Amit Chatterjee