Selfish Quotes

“People who claim they don't care what others think about them get restless when they know what others are thinking about them.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Parents want the best for their children … for themselves.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Everyone can be selfish sometimes. Especially when they're hurting.”
― Melanie A. Smith, All of Me

“We sometimes give someone something they need, with the subconscious hope that that will increase the chances of life giving us something we want.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Like philanthropy, charity is the deceptive art of making others happy, or less unhappy, in order to make yourself happy, or happier.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“You don’t have to live your life tiptoeing around selfish, hidden-agenda-driven, crab-bucket, talk-behind-your-back, weasel people. You just don’t. At work, church, home or play — seek people who embody the future you want and surround yourself with loving influences. You deserve that circle of inclusion and influence, but it’s up to you to create it.”
― Richie Norton

“Yes, there are times when the world turns upside down, logic becomes subject to the muse of reckless interpretation, truth becomes the bed-child of selfish goals, and people are off on a wild course that bludgeons everyone they once loved or anyone who gets in the way of what they now purport to love.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

“Everybody is selfish!

It's just that the definition of the self holds different meaning to different individuals.

Keep checking your definition as frequently as possible.”
― Live Life

“The sun shines, not out of affection, but out of compulsion.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“A deed is at bottom an attempt to grab or hold on to pleasure, or to make pain miss or let go of the doer.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“In the matters of your mistake you defend it like a lawyer, in the matters of other's mistake you act like a judge.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Every relationship is, to each party, ultimately about them.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Some see it as selfishness or fussiness, nonetheless, it is less of a mess i guess.”
― Alain Bremond-Torrent, "Darling, it's not only about sex"

“Undoubtedly, the loneliest person on the planet is that individual who has successfully lived out their lives making their lives all about their lives. And while that might seem rather sad to most of us, at least they’ll feel that they’re in good company.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Of course, I would encourage you to be your god. But before you do, you might want to look around at all the other people who were their own gods and realize that they were not enough of whatever a ‘god’ is to save themselves from the destruction of their own divinity.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If possessing everything is the ‘everything’ of my existence, maybe losing everything is the only ‘thing’ that I really need right now.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The majority of people in this world are selfish. Their life is all about earning more and more money. They do not care about anything else. Once upon a time, this world was a beautiful place. But it has been spoiled by the greed of Man.”
― Avijeet Das

“Credibility and dishonesty are polar opposites, not just in motion, but also in motive. Credibility is driven by a selfless spirit of mutual respect. Dishonesty is driven by a selfish spirit of self-preservation.”
― Jeremy Gove, Let's Be Honest: Living a Life of Radical, Biblical Integrity

“Every lie begins with the phrase, 'Because I'm selfish.”
― Ken Poirot

“Every lie begins with the phrase, 'Because I'm selfish'.”
― Ken Poirot

“Death is rendered tragic when it finds us having expended ourselves in the endeavor of having lived for ourselves. For when it finds us at the end of such a life as this, it finds us in the company of no one other than ourselves. And that alone may be worse than death itself.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“One of the most selfish things you can do to someone you love is make them your happiness.”
― Lidia Longorio, Hey Humanity

“Anyhow, I am selfish too. In the sense of it, when I meditate the pleasure of others because my pleasure is also in that.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“How often have we taken up arms in some crusade that appeared so impeccably brilliant, indisputably praiseworthy, and immeasurably grand that we came to believe that the crusade itself transcended all of the truth that would show it to be none of those things? And in the end, how many times were the arms that we took up in such a crusade discharged in our direction?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Most of our problems would be gone if we stopped saying three, little words. What about me?”
― Donna Goddard, Pittown

“If we don’t give back to the society, we'll die of obesity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Ain't Enough to Look Human

“Everybody is selfish!

It's just that the definition of the self holds different meaning to different individuals.

Keep checking your definition as frequently as possible.”
― Live Life Essence

“If the outcome of our years lived serves us, I would suggest that we haven’t lived.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Selfish people are never contented”
― Charmaine J Forde

“You are either selfish or human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Neden Türk: The Gospel of Secularism