Quotes About Selfishness

A mother's love is very touching, of course, but it is often curiously selfish. I mean, there is a good deal of selfishness in it.

Vain sopimaton miellyttää, vain oma nautinto kiinnostaa, ja toisten murheet viihdyttävät eniten.

The hard core of egotism is difficult to dislodge except rudely. WIth its departure, the Divine finds at last an unobstructed channel. In vain It seeks to percolate through flinty hearts of selfishness.

The hard core of human egotism is hardly to be dislodged except rudely.

Here is, in truth, the whole secret of Yoga, the science of the soul. The active turnings, the strident vibrations, of selfishness, lust and hate are to be stilled by meditation, by letting heart and mind dwell in spiritual life, by lifting up the heart to the strong, silent life above, which rests in the stillness of eternal love, and needs no harsh vibration to convince it of true being.

One is sincere and the other insincere. One comes from the heart out; the other from the teeth out. One is unselfish; the other selfish. One is universally admired; the other universally condemned.

Aristotle called this land of attitude "enlightened selfishness." Zoroaster said, "Doing good to others is not a duty. It is a joy, for it increases your own health and happiness." And Benjamin Franklin summed it up very simply—"When you are good to others," said Franklin, "you are best to yourself.

Flattery is counterfeit, and like counterfeit money, it will eventually get you into trouble if you pass it to someone else. The difference between appreciation and flattery? That is simple. One is sincere and the other insincere. One comes from the heart out; the other from the teeth out. One is unselfish; the other selfish. One is universally admired; the other universally condemned.

Fear, worry, hate, supreme selfishness, and the inability to adjust themselves to the world of reality—these were largely the causes of their stomach illnesses and stomach ulcers

We steal the happiness of others in order to be happy ourselves, and when it is stolen from us we voyage desperately to steal it back.

I can't afford to spend my time with anyone - there's only enough left for myself

Arts and disciplines of that kind are fundamentally selfish; they're all designed to benefit the pupil—not the world - Ishmael

Arts and disciplines of that kind are fundamentally selfish; they're all designed to benefit the pupil—not the world.

Self denial is not a virtue: it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

"Some people aren't loyal to you. They are loyal to their needs of you. Once their needs change, so does their loyalty."

Greed is good until it affects someone's Need…

I think greed sometimes gets the best of everybody.

Greed, in the end, fails even the greedy.

Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.

As long as greed is stronger than compassion, there will always be suffering.

Though many intellectuals, following in the footsteps of Saints Augustine and Jerome, hold business people in contempt for their selfishness and greed, in fact a free market puts a premium on empathy.

I have never understood why it is "greed" to want to keep the money you have earned but to greed to want to take somebody else's money.

Selfishness is the grand moving principle of nine-tenths of our actions.

I have begun in old age to understand...that we seldom if ever realize how generous we are to ourselves, and just how stingy with others.