Quotes About Selfishness

Some people are money hungry and don't stop to think of who they're affecting and what really matters. There's a lot of ugly.

It's an ugly thing to see ambition and to see people satisfying themselves.

I have grown up on a staple diet of love stories. But, soon I realised it is not so rosy or divine. It is painful, selfish and ugly. Love is the biggest curse of this generation!

No, I'm far too selfish to have a child. Also, I couldn't bear to have an ugly child. I'd have to be 100 per cent sure that the girl I had a child with was good-looking. You can never tell because you don't know what's going on while it's being fermented. You'd have to do a lot of research to check that they didn't have ugly genes.

I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.

It seems to me that there are two great enemies of peace - fear and selfishness.

war grows out of desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

Today the world seems to be like a stagnated place, because the majority of humanity are not eager to see others rise.

As long as greed is the root of all evil, there will not be peace.Get rid of selfishness and greed too will disappear.

If I propose to myself and myself says yes, I get to have the cake, right? I love me, so I'm thinking 12 tiers.

Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.

Greed is permanent slavery

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.

There is a fear of the Lord which is the beginning of wisdom, which is founded in love. There is also a slavish fear, which is a mere dread of evil, and is purely selfish.

Wisdom means that it gives you detachment, detachment from all that is selfishness, self-centredness, self-obsession, ego - all connected with self.

The more we take, the less we become.

That which is selfish is immoral, and that which is unselfish is moral.

Fear comes from the selfish idea of cutting one's self off from the Universe.

What we are looking for, I am afraid, is neither a true leader nor a true Messiah, but a false Messiah - a man who will give us over-simplified answers, who will justify our ways, who will castigate our enemies, who will vindicate our selfishness as a way of life and make us comfortable within our prejudices and preconceptions.

It's like parents choosing to raise their own standard of living rather than to provide for the future of their kids. You wouldn't consider that very admirable would you?

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to ...

only a fool obeys the law if it is against his own advantage.

So you want to die honorably? You are being selfish. Each and every person you killed had his own life. Whether that life was blessed or not ... everyone is born into this world ... they grow up ... some people have family ... some are alone in this world ... some have young children ... some are engaged ... some have pets ...some people have high hopes and great dreams ... other have no ambition at all and you ended everything for them Takezo.

Expectations of anyone or of any thing will lead u down the road of disappointment. Set your Intention today to let go and ALLOW others to follow their path as u follow yours. Look deeply within yourself, what is your FEAR? What r u so afraid of? Contentment is a SOUL/SOLE journey that u must travel alone, expecting another to fill YOUR void is unfair and selfish.