Selfish Quotes

“Let me be brutally honest. Being an insider, I know exactly how these MBA guys think. And because I know who they really are, I have nothing but utter contempt for these professionals. Now you might think I am stereotyping and generalizing. Yes, I am, indeed. But get this thing straight. Only highly competitive people prepare for these entrance exams to these top-notch B-schools. Only those who have excessive cupidity for money, power and status, only such people enter these highly reputed management colleges. These people don’t have friends, instead, they have connections. It’s all about Moolah. It’s all about usefulness. You scratch my back, and I will scratch yours. You be my ladder, and I will be yours.”
― Abhaidev, The World's Most Frustrated Man

“Me, myself and I’ leave no room for ‘us and them.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“A greedy man, even if he has much, still wishes to have more.”
― Brothers Grimm

“We do things for others for ourselves.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Die of humanity, not of obesity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live

“Doing nothing but seeking pleasure is an attitude that will bankrupt our souls long before we ever seek out the pleasures that we thought would fill them.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“You can pick up a cat by its tail because you assume that the part of the cat that can do you damage is on the other end. But it’s amazing how fast the other end can find its way to this end.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“That’s the thing with the self-obsessed… they don’t know when to stop. They don’t know how to quit while they’re ahead. They take it too far… and life crushes them for it. This self-fulfilling karmic cycle is a reminder that the universe corrects itself... no debt goes unpaid.”
― Steve Maraboli

“I get the impression from Scripture that God would rather be in communication with an immature, selfish person than be ignored by a theologically fastidious one.”
― Brant Hansen, Blessed Are the Misfits: Great News for Believers who are Introverts, Spiritual Strugglers, or Just Feel Like They're Missing Something

“It is never about survival, not any more, if it were, we didn't have to move out of jungle. We moved out of our Mother Nature's basement, so we could build a kind world for ourselves.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World

“He that does good to another does good mainly, or even only, for himself.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Moving from childhood to adulthood - that's not growing up. Moving from selfishness to selflessness - that's growing up.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race

“Everybody is dead except the unselfish.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live

“There is no other you, there is no other me, it's always the other we, we being with different people all the time to satisfy our needs and motives.”
― Saksham Minocha

“Selfishness isn’t looking to your own interest, but doing so at the expense or neglect of others.”
― J.S. Felts, Ageless Wisdom: A Treasury of Quotes to Motivate & Inspire

“Do we ever consider the fact that we spend the majority of our lives racing to red lights that will never turn green?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“An attitude of thanksgiving will thrive and it will breathe life into any place where a heart of appreciation and gratitude refuses to give way to a brooding sense of entitlement, the scourge of greed, or any other lesser attitudes that keep company with such things.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The opposite of war is not peace, it's unselfishness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth

“It’s not that we don’t have the answer. It’s that we don’t have the answer that we want. And until we get that, our stance is that we don’t have the answer.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“In declaring that there is no God we become our own gods, for the absence of a God does not eliminate our need of one.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Although it would convince us to believe otherwise, greed will always view us as an acceptable causality of whatever it is that greed desires.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The message of sacrifice is that the greatest fullness imaginable can only arise from the willingness to experience the greatest emptiness possible.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It is a selfish - selfish world - you know why - because nature teaches selfishness, parents teach selfishness, teachers teach selfishness - and by the time a child full of human potential grows up to be an adult, they are no longer human, they end up as modern savage in fancy rags.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Şehit Sevda Society: Even in Death I Shall Live

“To lead for glory or gain is to neither lead nor follow. Rather, it is to destroy.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Me, myself and I are constantly clamoring to be the sum total of my existence. And what these three people refuse to understand is that to bow to their request is to kill all four of us.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Ignorance is the thing that we attribute to everyone else, which is a far greater ignorance than that which we’re accusing everyone else of.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Real freedom for most other people is likely being free of my attempts to control them.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“To unself the soul is to unfold happiness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables

“Every life is obvious, for every life is born selfish. You for one be the unobvious, be the line between human 'n rubbish.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Honor He Wrote: 100 Sonnets For Humans Not Vegetables

“If we have a gift that we have kept to ourselves, we have perpetrated our own robbery.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough