Selfish Quotes

“In fact, the more each person can remove his or her ego from the discussion and focus on the subject matter, the more fruitful the conversation will be for all involved.”
― Matthew Kelly, The Seven Levels of Intimacy: The Art of Loving and the Joy of Being Loved

“She also understood there was a hole in her heart where her son should be, that she was a wicked, selfish woman for wishing him back.”
― Shannon Celebi, Driving Off Bridges

“Do you often feel like parched ground, unable to produce anything worthwhile? I do. When I am in need of refreshment, it isn't easy to think of the needs of others. But I have found that if, instead of praying for my own comfort and satisfaction, I ask the Lord to enable me to give to others, an amazing thing often happens - I find my own needs wonderfully met. Refreshment comes in ways I would never have thought of, both for others, and then, incidentally, for myself.”
― Elisabeth Elliot

“People love answers, but only as long as they are the ones who came up with them.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“My hair would continue to gray, and then one day, it would fall out entirely, and then, on a day meaninglessly close to the present one, meaninglessly like the present one, I would disappear from the earth. And all these emotions, all these yearnings, all these data, if that helps to clinch the enormity of what I'm talking about, would be gone. And that's what immortality means. It means selfishness. My generations belief that each one of us matters more than you or anyone else would think.”
― Gary Shteyngart, Super Sad True Love Story

“Selflessness. Humility. Truthfulness. These are the three marks of an honorable man.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“[On Schopenhauer in Black and White] Schopenhauer's views of love are flawed. Love can't be merely an illusion of the mind to aid in procreation, but the path to redemption for an otherwise violently selfish species. Past human greatness has proven that when challenged, love can overpower impulsive instinct, and in essence, the vilest aspects of our nature.”
― Tiffany Madison

“A common mistake we make is that we look for God in places where we ourselves wish to find him, yet even in the physical reality this is a complete failure. For example, if you lost your car keys, you would not search where you want to search, you would search where you must in order to find them.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“I am thankful that there are those among us who have sacrificed dearly on behalf of us. And I ardently pray to God that I might be less like myself and more like them.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The subsistence mentality of a person is a prison in which his personal joy is detained. If you want to live in joy, you don't live for yourself alone. Live for others too!”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“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

“...Aren’t they all acting on a selfish motive—to be noticed, liked, admired?”
“—by others. At the price of their own self-respect. In the realm of greatest importance—the realm of values, of judgment, of spirit, of thought—they place others above self, in the exact manner which altruism demands. A truly selfish man cannot be affected by the approval of others. He doesn’t need it.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“A PRIME TRUTH - MAN IS SELFISH

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― William J Federer, Change to Chains-The 6,000 Year Quest for Control -Volume I-Rise of the Republic

“We are notorious for ‘running’ around self-righteously declaring our rights to this and to that. But if we were to reflect upon the millions who ‘ran’ across bloodied battlefields so that we would have rights to declare, I think we’d do a whole lot less declaring and a whole more appreciating.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“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

“Narcissists often feign oppression because narcissists always feel entitled.”
― Criss Jami

“We are good to others only because we think that that is, or will be, good for us.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I should've been better. But sometimes all you can really stand to do is think about yourself. Sometimes it's the only way to cope. The only way to make sense of something as colossal and and intimidating as the world is to make it about you.”
― Emma Mills, First & Then

“A selfish life isn’t God’s purpose for you”
― Sunday Adelaja

“The tide seldom shifts in favor of a selfish individual.”
― Carlos Wallace, The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity

“You shouldn’t live for yourself alone but you must also learn to live the Christian life”
― Sunday Adelaja

“We deny the fact that people get into or remain in our lives mainly for selfish reasons mainly for a selfish reason, namely, to protect our cherished belief that we are special.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“More clothes, more cars, more cash,
Just how much will you consider enough!
Till you put a cork on cocky abundance,
Not felicity but disparity wreaks havoc.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“Is there anything else you need my assistance with?'

'Need? No.' His head turned to the side. A lock of bronze hair fell against his cheek. 'Want? Yes. But that would be selfish of me. I prefer to be greedy.'

'Are they not the same thing?'

'Not in my opinion. Greedy is not necessarily a solitary act,' he replied.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Fall of Ruin and Wrath

“Selfishness is death by consumption of self.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The individual is born good. However, our society is not. This seemingly paradoxical phenomenon is due to the fact that societal norms reward those who are 'selficated', the habitual or normalized mindset to practice selfishness. In other words, selfication is the process by which an individual is habituated into a selfish mode of existence.”
― Billy Poon, The Selficated Society: Why We Are Depressed in the Modern Age and How You Can Break Free from Suffering to Live a Life Worthwhile

“We are selficated to the extent that alternatives prove irrational and normalcy is the temptation to believe there is no other way.”
― Billy Poon, The Selficated Society: Why We Are Depressed in the Modern Age and How You Can Break Free from Suffering to Live a Life Worthwhile

“Happiness shared is happiness human,
Happiness hoarded is happiness animal.
To share and to care are the sign of life,
To hoard and to hate are the sign of animal.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations

“When a person life is a world
of complaints, they carry that
attitude with them, most things
are never as perfect as they desire.
Most people understand, nothing
is perfect, and look at the complainer
as the seeker of attention or just
selfish and unaware. No one likes
a complainer. What happens is
life's reflection will give this person
something to really complain about.
The attitude we show the world will
always return to us.”
― Ron Baratono

“It can all end in a moment. Take for yourself now what tomorrow might not give you.”
― Guillermo del Toro, Falling Down