Quotes About Selfishness

selfish thoughts of all kinds crystallize into habits of self-seeking, which solidify into circumstances more or less distressing.

Men cling to and gratify the flesh as though it were going to last for ever, and though they try to forget the nearness and inevitability of its dissolution, the dread of death and of the loss of all that they cling to clouds their happiest hours, and the chilling shadow of their own selfishness follows them like a remorseless specter.

Joy is as an angel so beautiful and delicate and chaste that she can only dwell with holiness. She cannot remain with selfishness; she is wedded to Love.

We live in a world of endless transgressions and selfishness, and no pictures that represent us otherwise can be true.

We live in a world of transgressions and selfishness, and no pictures that represent us otherwise can be true, though, happily, for human nature, gleamings of that pure spirit in whose likeness man has been fashioned are to be seen, relieving its deformities, and mitigating if not excusing its crimes.

But, there was a time when we all had a great thing going but one person just became very uncomfortable with it and he had to try to change it around to suit him more and then it suited no one else but him.

Undoubtedly there are, in connection with each of these things, cases of fraud, swindling, and other financial crimes; that is to say, the greed and selfishness of men are perpetual.

Selfishness, if but reasonably tempered with wisdom, is not such an evil trait.

Be weary of the selfish givers, those who do something for a hidden fee.

Pride grants you a happily never after.

Teach the children compassion and empathy, for all creatures are born selfish.

I find it a challenge to respect capable people who care only for their own interests.

You don't 'love' people when they are 'nice'. Don't you see that's the same as saying 'what's in it for me'?

For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise.

Let us not complain against men because otheir rudeness, their ingratitude, their injustice, their arrogance, their love oself, their forgetfulness oothers. They are so made. Such is their nature.

It is a shame to confess but among all living creatures only man doesn't know what is useful for him.

Speaking generally, men are ungrateful, fickle, hypocritical, fearful odanger and covetous ogain.

Any man who talks about his love affairs thereby proves he is ignorant of love and is moved only by vanity.

The man who attempts to live for others is a dependent. He is a parasite in motive and makes parasites of those he serves.

What is common to many is least taken care of, for all men have greater regard for what is their own than what they possess in common with others.

Did the mass of men know the actual selfishness and injustice of their rulers, not a government would stand a year. - The world would foment with revolution.

The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.

A covetous man's penny is a stone.

That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments.