Quotes About Selfishness

Who has fear? The one who has greed has fear.

Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to.

It is very sad to me that some people are so intent on leaving their mark on the world, that they dont care if that mark is a scar.

In this world, whenever there is light, there are also shadows. As long as the concept of winners exist, there must also be losers. The selfish desire of wanting to maintain peace causes wars and hatred is born to protect love.

The natural life in each of us is something self-centred, something that wants to be petted and admired, to take advantage of other lives, to exploit the whole universe.

I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.

Sometimes people who want more than they can handle end up losing everything altogether. Greed and selfishness will get you nowhere in life

If you're gonna be selfish then don't expect people to be there for you when you need someone.

I'm moody like Squidward. Sometimes selfish, like Mr. Krabs. A bit dumb, like Patrick. But I'll always be here for you, like Spongebob.

I hate it when someone is only nice because they want something.

but beneath the words and thoughts of an ungrateful, selfish, and cruel young man there had never been anything that might resemble my grandmother, for, in my frivolity, my love of pleasure, and accustomed as I was to seeing her as an invalid, I contained within me the memory of what she had been only in a virtual state.

her stay in it with them, then she could accept it thankfully and without guilt. Sometimes, selfish people were so much less tiring to deal with than the unselfish. The fact that you knew they were doing exactly what they wanted to do was so restful. Not that Alistair was selfish, he

Maybe selflessness was only selfishness on another level.

Dear Scarlett! You aren't helpless. Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless. God help the Yankees if they should get you." -Rhett Butler

From the time I arrived on the Cape, one of the things I chose explicitly was to put my writing first. Everything else in my life waxed and waned, but writing, I discovered during my restructuring, was my real core. Not any relationship. Not any love. Not any person. I had become more selfish and less accessible. I ceased to be the universal mommy of the tribe. I wanted to see people when I was done with my writing for the day, and not in the middle of my work time.

Egotism fears its own self.

You can be a really nasty, selfish little jerk when you're scared enough. I was scared enough.

Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.

It is folly to abstain all day long from food, but fail to abstain from sin and selfishness.

What kind of person doesn't let you have gummi bears?

Greed is taking more than you need to feed. Avarice is hoarding, and stockpiling stolen, rotten goods.

The covetous man is always poor.

It stands to reason that if sacrifices are being given, somebody is collecting sacrifices.

As frost to the bud, and blight to the blossom, even such is self-interest to friendship; for confidence cannot dwell where selfishness is porter at the gate.