Selfishness Quotes

We ignore the Holy Spirit when we position ourselves at the center of life. - From the Book: Removing Your Shame Label.

~ Eddie Capparucci

I was too selfish to have a child before I was ready for one, and there's no shame in admitting that. Women should be selfish about our choices, for as long as we have the privilege of being selfish. Selfishness in women isn't the great crime that people like to pretend it is. We are as entitled as men to prioritise ourselves and our desires, and we are as capable as men of knowing what's best for us. Why is everyone so pathologically terrified of selfish women? The word is thrown around like an insult, as if the worst thing a woman could possibly do (aside from being fat, having sex with whomever she pleases and whenever, swearing, having an abortion, drinking alcohol, standing up for herself and being a working mother) is to decide that her life matters.But women are allowed to be selfish. It shouldn't be considered a 'privilege' to be able to control our own bodies nor should it be treated like a favour done to us by the state. It's a right that, by and large, has been stolen from us and used to keep us in thrall to a paternalistic body that pretends to know what's best for us but is really only interested in maintaining the order that has proved best for them.

~ Clementine Ford

Messages that emphasis on you! You!! Promotes selfishness.

~ Sunday Adelaja

We pray to God for ourselves instead of the general good.

~ Sunday Adelaja

that is the thing about selfish people. theygamble entire beings. entire souls to please their own. one second they are holding you like the world in their lap and the next they have belittled you to a mere picture. a moment. something of the past. one second. they swallow you up and whisper they want to spend the rest of their life with you. but the moment they sense fear. they are already halfway out the door. without having the nerve to let you go with grace. as if the human heart means that little to them.and after all this. after all of the taking. the nerve. isn't it sad and funny how people have more guts these days to undress you with their fingers than they do pick up the phone and call. apologize. for the loss. and this is how you lose her.- selfish

~ Rupi Kaur

Of course I love you. It is my fault that you have not known it all the while (the flower to little prince)

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

The instructive admonitions, “give an account of thy stewardship,“—“occupy till I come;” are forgotten. Thus the generous and wakeful spirit of Christian Benevolence, seeking and finding every where occasions for its exercise, is exploded, and a system of decent selfishness is avowedly established in its stead; a system scarcely more to be abjured for its impiety, than to be abhorred for its cold insensibility to the opportunities of diffusing happiness.

~ William Wilberforce

Let's be clear: unless I have profoundly misunderstood its position, I pretty much despise American Libertarianism. Have these people seriously looked at the problems of the world and thought, 'Hmm, what we need here is a bit more selfishness'? . . . I beg to differ.

~ Iain Banks

What you love is your own love. It's not love, it's selfishness. It's not me you think of, but what you feel about me.

~ John Fowles

You are not a better or wiser person simply because you’ve ceased to care.

~ Clifford Cohen

Pseudo idealism: apparent charitable behaviour that on scrutiny is revealed as selfish, because the giver is engaging in it only so that he or she can feel good about him or herself

~ Jeremy Griffith

And perhaps you might pretend, afterwards, that it was only a trick and that you just said it to make them stop and didn’t really mean it. But that isn’t true. At the time when it happens you do mean it. You think there’s no other way of saving yourself and you’re quite ready to save yourself that way. You want it to happen to the other person. You don’t give a damn what they suffer. All you care about is yourself.

~ George Orwell

If humans are indeed products of a design, is it not wise to make humans selfish? A selfish person safeguards what’s important to him and never exchanges it to one with a lesser value. If the salvation of his soul is the most important to him, he will do everything to secure it. An unselfish person who values his soul just as much is ready to exchange his salvation for less. They are self-deniers, right?

~ H.r.valderrama

In the age of facebookerism and tweeterism, people have been manipulated to behave foolishly. Look at me, i am here culture has thrived.

~ Kamil Toume

Remember the acorn,It does not devour other acorns.

~ Edgar Lee Masters

She's very selfish. Not exactly self-centered, but totally indifferent to everyone and everything. Don't you agree?' 'I don't think that's possible,' said Mr Satterthwaite, slowly. 'I mean everyone's interest must go somewhere.

~ Agatha Christie

Selfish acts will only lead to your own destruction.

~ Faith Tigere

She felt the lurch of a head rush. The boy who had not paid attention to her, the man who’d embarked on an affair knowing she could never be his, at the last moment he was asking for more. A piece of her was elated. But she was also struck by his selfishness.

~ Jhumpa Lahiri

At the end of the day we can’t be that selfish to accept the love they think we deserve.

~ Sarvesh Jain

Everyone wants everyone to be perfect for them, but they don't want themselves to be perfect for others...

~ Anonymous

Everyone Wants everyone to be perfect for them but they don't wanted to be perfect for others...

~ Naveen Kumar

It is a great mistake to suppose that a woman with no heart will be an easy creditor in the exchange of affection. There is not on earth a more merciless extractor of love from others than a thoroughly selfish woman; and the more unlovely she grows, the more jealously and scrupulously she extracts love, to the uttermost farthing.

~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

Not all generous hearts are gullible enough to be screwed by cold, calculating, business propaganda. A person who has an eye for what is right and the truth will immediately spot the cunning ways of a selfish user and hungry grabber who took initiative to grab the originality from other people they tried to profile, fake befriended and extracted favours. ~ Angelica Hopes, an excerpt from If I Could Tell You

~ Angelica Hopes

Selfishness is one of the most destructive forces in man that is why life demands for its death.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Sometimes you think you're helping someone up, but they're actually pulling you down. This is the painful dynamic of dealing with someone who is incurably selfish.

~ Steve Maraboli

And isn’t that the root of every despicable action? Not selfishness, but precisely the absence of a self. Look at them. The man who cheats and lies, but preserves a respectable front. He knows himself to be dishonest, but others think he’s honest and he derives his self-respect from that, second-hand. The man who takes credit for an achievement which is not his own. He knows himself to be mediocre, but he’s great in the eyes of others. The frustrated wretch who professes love for the inferior and clings to those less endowed, in order to establish his own superiority by comparison.

~ Ayn Rand

In 1948, psychologists asked more than 10,000 adolescents whether they considered themselves to be a very important person. At that point, 12 percent said yes. The same question was asked in 2003, and this time it wasn’t 12 percent who considered themselves very important, it was 80 percent.

~ David Brooks

Some people seem to have a black belt in selfishness... ninja narcissists with no regard to how they impact those around them… but at the same time, a master at the art of playing victim.

~ Steve Maraboli

Narcissists only play for their own business, whereas Distortionists play with other’s business only to gain personal advantage. If you are both, then you aren’t an entrepreneur.

~ Ashish Patel

The goal of marriage is not happiness, it is holiness...There is no mechanism whereby God can sanctify a person more than having them live in close proximity to another imperfect person....Our fundamental problem is that we are selfish. Marriage is the means whereby God eradicates our selfishness because it is not about me anymore, i t is about we.

~ Mark Batterson

Battles for truth are fought all alone but at the end its a victory for many.

~ Amit Abraham

As long as greed is the root of all evil, there will not be peace.Get rid of selfishness and greed too will disappear.

~ Zarina Bibi

[S]elfish members win within groups, but groups of altruists best groups of selfish members. (63)

~ Edward O. Wilson

Selfish people tend to only be good to themselves… then are surprised when they are alone.

~ Steve Maraboli

A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself.

~ George Bernard Shaw

While it lasts, the religion of worshiping oneself is the best.

~ C.s. Lewis

It was only that she wanted him to be happy, resenting, however, his inability to be so with things as they were, and never acknowledging that though she did want him to be happy, it was only in her own way and by some plan of hers for him that she truly desired him to be so.

~ Nella Larsen

Life is just a big game of Texas hold'em, unexpected things may arise that may suite you or destroy you. You gotta make the best of the cards your dealt, adjust accordingly, and always understand that you control your decisions.

~ Mustafa Said

And if redemption was self-serving, coming as it did ribbon-tied to what he wanted most in life? For once, Akiva's shame wouldn't rise to the bait. He wanted what he'd always wanted, and he'd better just say it, his own worries and fears be damned.

~ Laini Taylor

When feels that someone puts you aside, sometimes thinks in an act of selfishnessbut always its really to have afraid of something worst.

~ Frank Jymz