Quotes About Selfishness

Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to balance it against the altruism to which we should all aspire. It is a difficult balance to strike, but no definition of goodness can be complete without it.

People are so selfish. Those you help are the ones who turn against you.

I felt, selfishly, that if there was going to be a TV show about 'Hannibal Lecter' whether I was going to be involved or not, I'd rather be involved. I wanted to make sure it was something I wanted to watch.

Let's be honest, you're very selfish in your twenties, and in your thirties you are just trying to get a down payment for your flat or enough money to pay your bills.

I feel so selfish, because I want the best of both worlds. I want to keep the image I've worked so hard to create.

There are elites that are real leaders and role models. There are elites that are really selfish and want to pull up the ladder once they've reached the roof.

I'm sorry I kissed you- it was selfish and it upset you- but you can't ask me to pretend I didnt want to.

I hate playing the bass, bro. I've been playing the bass because it's there and I don't want anyone else to play it.

I wasn't sure which of us was being more selfish—her, for wanting something that no one could promise, or me, for not promising her something that was too painfully impossible to want.

Who would thought only of themselves and kill their race? You would hate other people if you don't want to stay who you are.

Normally I hate people who whine all the time, but in your case, it would be okay to complain. Be selfish, say what you want once in a while. It's okay to let yourself be sad." -Kyo talking to Tohru

In real life, you care about other people, but at the end of the day you're like, "I'm acting upon whatever it is that I want or need."

I enrich myself by telling others to give to me so they can bribe God to get what they want.

We do things because we want it, not because they're good for us.

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.

All of man's wars are based upon TAKING. There could be no war based upon GIVING.

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.

I just want people to see what I deem as a war for no reason, but only for greed.

That's not fair. I like lying to you. It makes my life easier.

your needs mean nothing to me. Just as history has proven that my needs mean nothing to you.

And I shuddered at the apparent freedom so many women felt simply to take what they wanted without regard for other women's feelings. It was as though we were all crazed customers at some kind of year-end shoe sale, shoving our fellow females out of the way as we clutched desperately at the few remaining pieces of merchandise. I had the discouraging sense that our culture had created female monsters, dooming us to play out these intense and bitter rivalries almost against our will.

Albert of Wallenstein] loved war. He was very tall and skeletally thin, usually dressed in sinister black, with a single streak of red. "[He is] unmerciful," wrote the astronomer Johannes Kepler, describing Wallenstein, "devoted only to himself and his desires...covetous, deceitful...usually silent, often violent.

But for better or worse, I am not motivated by kindness.