Selfish Quotes

“It takes selfishness to stop someone from killing themself.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, P for Pessimism: A Collection of Funny yet Profound Aphorisms

“Always be on the look out for opportunists, who come to you as friends or love partners. They will exploit you. Take advantage of you. Use you. Once they are done with you or when their plans fail or back fire that they can't use you anymore. They will throw you under the bus, to kick start their career. Saying they can't keep quite anymore about you. They had been quite for too long. So that people can side with them.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“The beauty of God is that He will always be there to pick us up after we’ve exhausted ourselves attempting to be Him.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It takes selfishness to do something intentionally.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“If all you do is care for your own elevation, then at the end of the day, you'll find yourself six feet under.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism

“No one has to be a martyr on the spiritual path. On the contrary, everyone should be entirely selfish. Not selfish in the normal sense of the word, but selfish in the way of knowing that the spiritual path means we value everything which adds to our own well-being. When we love, we live with connectedness. When we forgive, we feel stress-free. When we create, we live with inspiration. When we follow our inner direction, we feel alive. Is that even a choice?”
― Donna Goddard, Touched by Love

“Some things can become true merely because we believe in them–that pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. When modern economists assumed that people are innately selfish, they advocated policies that fostered self-serving behavior. When politicians convinced themselves that politics is a cynical game, that’s exactly what it became.”
― Rutger Bregman, Humankind A Hopeful History / Utopia for Realists And How We Can Get There

“Civilization starts with selflessness, for the entire animal kingdom is predicated on selfishness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Solo Standing on Guard: Life Before Law

“In every walk of life, nature will force you to be selfish. If you can conquer that force and be unselfish instead, you'll conquer the world.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Solo Standing on Guard: Life Before Law

“Over 3 billion years have gone in selfishness, it's time to unself our soul and rise as sapiens.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Solo Standing on Guard: Life Before Law

“When everyone is trying to achieve something for themselves, give up everything you've achieved for the love of others.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Generation Corazon: Nationalism is Terrorism

“I know only one truth, unselfishness, all else are memories of a primitive past.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mucize Insan: When The World is Family

“Never yield to selfishness, the animals do, and look at how they live.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mucize Insan: When The World is Family

“If a human can't be unselfish, what's the point in being a human!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mucize Insan: When The World is Family

“There is no such thing as anxiety, for anxiety is alertness in action - alertness that is produced by your brain to ensure self-preservation. But if you wipe out the self from its very roots and fill every pore of your body and mind with a sense of genuine care for others, then that so-called anxiety will fade away on its own.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Hometown Human: To Live for Soil and Society

“Seeking justice in this world is such a selfish thing but giving justice reflects being a child of God.”
― John M. Sheehan

“Happiness, is nothing but just the gain of your personal gratification when you look in your bowl and it has more than others. The so-called “caring people”, just ensure you have something in your bowl and they will try their hard to make it happen only until your quantity does not exceed theirs.”
― Saksham Minocha

“I would much prefer the ‘wealth of impoverishment’ (where I have spent my life giving to others), over the ‘impoverishment of wealth’ (where I have squandered my life giving to myself).”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“In the vast majority of cases, what I ‘need’ is actually what I ‘want’ dressed in clever disguise.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The question is not whether or not someone in your life is using you, but how are they using you.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, P for Pessimism: A Collection of Funny yet Profound Aphorisms

“Put yourself first and in no time you will be dead last.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“To live unto oneself never involves living.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Greed is self-preservation in action - it is selfishness in action. So to treat greed, we must treat selfishness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Girl Over God: The Novel

“When the heart unlearns every bit of selfishness that keeps it from assimilating the world, that's when the animal goes to sleep and the human wakes up.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered

“Better than self-help is unself-help.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered

“and life was not what it was ⸺
life was not a selfish dream”
― Hanna Abi Akl, Correspondence

“In a world full of wolves devouring on each other's carcasses, be an elephant with incomparable courage and revolutionary gentleness.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live

“Only the unselfish live, rest trudge through life as slaves to prehistoric tendencies.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live

“You are a chunk of coal bursting to turn into diamond, and it's self-centricity that keeps you from turning into a diamond by filling your mind with the hooey of comfort and security.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live

“A selfish heart is an ever-consuming desert - no matter how much water you pour, it still wants more, whereas an unselfish heart is an ever-giving ocean - no matter how much water you draw, it still has plenty to give everyone.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Earthquakin' Egalitarian: I Die Everyday So Your Children Can Live