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Quotes About Self-centered

I don't go in there thinking about my family, friends, girlfriend, or my daughter. I want to prove to my coach that I'm the best. I don't care about anyone else.
~ Darren Till
I'm sure I was a cocky git.
~ Chesney Hawkes
The guilty think all talk is of themselves.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
I was an only child, so I was very demanding. I enjoyed it thoroughly, but I wasn't very pleasant.
~ Christopher Plummer
NON-EMPATHS naturally put themselves first. They experience themselves in vivid color, brighter and more interesting than everyone else.
~ Rose Rosetree
When everything you do is a success, you tend to start believing that the planets revolve around you, not the sun!
~ Sadhguru
Ich habe noch nie einen Schriftsteller kennengelernt, der nicht eitel und nicht egozentrisch gewesen wäre – es sei denn, es war ein besonders schlechter Autor.
~ Marcel Reich-Ranicki
money appears to motivate only our interest in ourselves, making us selfish and self-centered...Money makes people feel self-sufficient, which also means they don't need or care about others; it's each man for himself
~ Margaret Heffernan
Every time we start thinking we're the center of the universe, the universe turns around and says with a slightly distracted air, 'I'm sorry. What'd you say your name was again?
~ Margaret Maron
Father always says I'm conceited, but I'm not, I'm merely vain!
~ Anne Frank
Independent? Bosh. That's just another word for selfish. It's stiff-backed people like you who end up being the biggest burdens.
~ Anne Tyler
We're too busy being special.
~ Scott Westerfeld
you're right Acheron. I am a selfish bastard. I had to be, because no one else gave a single shit about me except me
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Life's all about 'me' anyway
~ Paul Arden
Ethos can amplify the preacher's message, but it cannot serve as a substitute for the authority of the biblical text. Good ethos is not a guarantee of good results. Godly preachers like Jeremiah are sometimes ignored, while surly and self-centered preachers like Jonah may be heeded beyond all expectation.
~ John Koessler
straightforward and selfish
~ B.M. Bower
We fail to reckon with the reality of human nature. By nature,we are egocentric. Our world revolves around us. None of us is totally altruistic.
~ Gary Chapman
Madness, by the life of the Prophet! Audran felt as if he were peering through a narrow tunnel, seeing the world with Abu Adil's mean, self-centered outlook. Things were only good for Abu Adil, or bad for Abu Adil; if they were neither, they did not exist.
~ George Alec Effinger
A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself.
~ George Bernard Shaw
But there is no tyranny more complete than that which a self-centred negative nature exercises over a morbidly sensitive nature perpetually craving sympathy and support.
~ George Eliot
If you see a man who is so obviously impressed with his own appearance, then you wonder what his priorities are.
~ Edward N. Ney
Gen Y is depicted as self-centred and apathetic when it comes to politics, but it doesn't help that we are largely overlooked. There have been policies to woo parents, pensioners and the sick, but the young do not appear to rank high on any political agenda.
~ Alexandra Adornetto
It's not whether you win or lose — but whether I win or lose.
~ Sandy Lyle
Every time we start thinking we're the center of the universe, the universe turns around and says with a slightly distracted air, "I'm sorry. What'd you say your name was again?"
~ Margaret Maron