Selfish Quotes

“Being selfish in the business is a sure path to failure.”
― Pooja Agnihotri, 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure

“All gods feed on suffering. Without it, there are no prayers or offerings. Mankind is selfish. They give only when they have to. If this world was idyllic and life was just, what need would there be for gods?”
― Ilona Andrews, Blood Heir

“If I am a compilation of nothing but myself, I will have lived a life where I became nothing more than myself. And while it might be true that we all begin with ourselves, to end there is to end in a terribly small place.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Hurt's a reason to change, but all the hurt in the world don't change facts. You have been selfish.”
― Stephen King, The Stand

“When the exercise of my freedom results in my destruction or the destruction of those around me, what I’ve exercised is the freedom to be selfish. And if such an exercise of freedom leads to my destruction, I should be quick to realize the frightening similarities between selfishness and stupidity.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Freedom is not permission to be stupid, for the exercise of ‘stupid’ as a ‘right’ is certain to destroy the very freedom that stupidly used to be stupid. And that’s about as stupid as stupid gets.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If I am both actor and audience, I probably made the play about myself. And if I did, it’s going to have a very short run.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If I demand that I be the captain of my own ship, I’ll probably be spending most of my time in a lifeboat. And if I then demand to be the captain of the lifeboat, I’ll probably be spending all of my time being the lunch of something that doesn’t care that I’m a captain.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Those who are arrogant about their pedigree, about their culture, about their intellect, I have no business with them, give me the humble janitor, give me the illiterate construction worker, give me the dropout waitress - the humble soul will find me in their own heart, but the arrogant will argue their whole life and never understand what I am all about, what humanity is all about - it's about community, it's about listening, it's about letting go of one's self-obsessed identity to become one with humanity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America

“Too often our convictions are based on what is convenient. For if convictions are convenient, they are neither.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It’s a promise, and a cry, and a prayer.
It’s unfair to ask him. Selfish.
But maybe I’ve earned a little of that, at the end of all things.”
― Sara Wolf, Send Me Their Souls

“If my actions do not exceed the reach of my grasp, I will have lived out my life in the sphere of self rather than the world of another. And I can hardly define that as living.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“How long must we wander through the wilderness of our arrogance before we acknowledge the existence of the wilderness and confess the fact that we’re lost in it? And if such a posture of humility is beyond us, the woods will grow and a way out of them will not.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Being our own god grants us the terrifying illusion that we possess sufficient power to bring the world around us to its knees, when in fact it will only serve to bring us to our grave. And sadly, the cemeteries seem quite full these days.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“At the point that I have confused ‘rights’ with ‘privileges,’ I will have lost both.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Our greatest enemy is devious enough to tell us that we are our greatest asset, and that the investment of the whole of ourselves into the whole of ourselves represents the whole of our life. But what the person in the mirror is not telling you is what kind of ‘hole’ that will actually dig.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Only when we stand unafraid to bleed all over our being with a genuine, unconflicted, uncorrupted, unselfish desire for good, will we be the founder of a civilized planet.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America

“I’m not particularly intelligent, nor do I have any kind of secret magic or skill. As much as I want to, I can’t compete against those who are far more knowledgeable. I’m not the most beautiful, I’m not good at martial arts, nor am I good at riding. As such, how do I escape from here? Noin, I’m also not a merciful person—my heart is no longer innocent. I’m but a selfish, lazy, and also a cute person who just wants to live a comfortable life free of problems. Therefore, I won’t be a fun plaything for you.”
― Sakurase Ayaka (桜瀬彩香), 長い夜の国と最後の舞踏会 1　～ひとりぼっちの公爵令嬢と真夜中の精霊～

“The need of the hour is self-expansion, not self-absorption.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Shape of A Human: Our America Their America

“Human beings were very selfish and greedy. Once they were aware they couldn’t attain something in the future, their hope stopped there. However, since Dia had gotten something in her hands, she would like to take good care of it so that it wouldn’t be chipped or broken.”
― Sakurase Ayaka (桜瀬彩香), 長い夜の国と最後の舞踏会 1　～ひとりぼっちの公爵令嬢と真夜中の精霊～

“there exists
a fine line

between
being
selfish
&
being
selfless

&
most days

i can’t tell
which side

it is that
i’m on.

&
most days?

i don’t
care.

- there are some things i just have to do for me.”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One

“Sacrifice is realizing that the depth of my need can only be quenched by giving away the soul of myself.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Patience compels me to adjust my stride to the cadence of life, not the pace of my greed.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Refuse the fundamental prejudice that we ought to be selfish in order to survive - we are not, for it may suit animals, not modern humans of modern society.”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation

“We suffer because we are selfish.”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation

“The lower the animal, the more selfish it is - higher animals are selfless animals, they are the real humans.”
― Abhijit Naskar, When Veins Ignite: Either Integration or Degradation

“An agenda serves myself, while a conviction serves everyone except myself.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Service is the language of the human in us, selfishness is the language of the animal in us.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Heart Force One: Need No Gun to Defend Society

“Breathing alone is like choking to death. A breath shared is a breath well lived.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Heart Force One: Need No Gun to Defend Society

“A life lived only for the self is not human, but animal life.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Martyr Meets World: To Solve The Hard Problem of Inhumanity