Quotes About Selfishness

Por qué hizo falta que fuera lastimado hasta el límite de su vida para que me diera cuenta? Porque soy egoísta. Soy una cobarde. Soy el tipo de chica que, cuando podría ser útil de verdad, huiría para seguir con vida y abandonaría a los que no la pudieran seguir para que sufrieran y murieran..

But at the moment, I excuse myself from thinking about even those I love most. I think only of me. And what lies ahead.

Clearly, they didn't care about what would happen to the people who came after them. But this republic idea sounds like an improvement over our current government.

I realize that's the way, the way of selfish people. They want to control everyone else, but when it's them, they want their own rules.

'Party Up' is like 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' crossed with 'House Party.' It's basically about this kid, my character, who's this smooth, intelligent kid who's petitioning to throw this big end-of-the-year-bash house party, and so he goes and manipulating different people and ruining lives. He somewhat has a selfish heart, but he's a nice guy.

Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.

I try to score in every game and I don't feel sorry for anybody: If we win and I score that's fine, nothing else matters.

I have never in my life been the type to give things away. Sorry, just not my style.

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

Some people will only love you as much as they can use you, their loyalty ends where the benefits cease.

I hate pretty much everyone almost as much as I love myself.

To the ego, love is poison.

One is not necessarily made self-centered because he is foolish, but one is very often made foolish because he is self-centered.

What Douglas had once seen as the attractive over-confidence of youth, now looked more like unyielding selfishness.

Don't feed your ego with my soul.

Eating your own heart simply to keep the strangers from tasting: a suicide.

Sometimes we just want to be happy such that we don't care who gets hurt

Entitlement is such a cancer, because it is void of gratitude.

There's nothing more devastating in a marriage than when a spouse puts their work, their desires above their partner's heart.

There is positively no way of permanently rising above poverty, or any undesirable condition, except by eradicating those selfish and negative conditions within, of which these are the reflection, and by virtue of which they continue.

The test of a man is in his immediate acts, and not in ultra-sentiments; and if those acts are consistently informed with selfishness and bitterness, if those at home hear his steps with dread, and feel a joyful relief on his departure, how empty are his expressions of sympathy for the suffering or down trodden how futile his membership of a philanthropic society.

Adversity relieves people of vanity and egotism. It discourages selfishness by proving that no one can succeed without the cooperation of others.

Millions of men and women throughout the nation are still engaged in this popular pastime of trying to GET without GIVING. Some of them are lined up with labor unions, where they demand shorter hours and more pay! Others do not take the trouble to work at all. They demand government relief and are getting it.

Sympathy can never hinder success. It is selfishness that blights and destroys. As goodwill increases, man's prosperity will increase. All interests are mutual, and stand or fall together, and as sympathy expands the heart, it extends the circle of influence, making blessings, both spiritual and material, to more greatly abound.