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Quotes About Selfishness

It does not matter whether you win or lose, what matters is whether I win or lose!
~ Steven Weinberg
Being happy means caring about no one else and simply enjoying the moment...
~ Unknown
We tell ourselves that we lie to protect others, but the self usually comes out looking damn good in the process.
~ Unknown
Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
~ Frank Leahy
The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Opinions are like orgasms. Mine's the most important and I really don't care about yours.
~ Unknown
Liars; those people who hide behind the truth for no real reason but for their own selfish gain.
~ Unknown
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
~ Benjamin Franklin
You can call it selfish, but there comes a time in life where you have to put yourself above all and think of yourself first!
~ Unknown
All you ever think about it yourself! The reason you're depressed is because you're so self obsessed.
~ Unknown
Grief and disappointment are like hate: they make men ugly with self-pity and bitterness. And how selfish they make us too.
~ Graham Greene
I never loved another person the way I loved myself.
~ Mae West
When all you focus on is yourself, you'll always want more, and you'll never be satisfied with what you have.
~ Unknown
The human species is its own enemy. We're our own demise. Greed and self interest is our bondage.
~ Unknown
Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.
~ Unknown
Whatever we treasure for ourselves separates us from others; our possessions are our limitations.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
When you love yourself more than anyone else ever could, that's dangerous.
~ Unknown
We are wont to condemn self-love; but what we really mean to condemn is contrary to self-love. It is that mixture of selfishness and self-hate that permanently pursues us, that prevents us from loving others, and that prohibits us from losing ourselves.
~ Paul Valery
There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good
~ Samuel Johnson
Cheating is the most selfish thing a person can do in a relationship! If your not happy with the person your with then end it. It's that simple!
~ Bryan Burden
I have begun in old age to understand just how oddly we are all put together. We are so proud of our autonomy that we seldom if ever realize how generous we are to ourselves, and just how stingy with others. One of the booby traps of freedomwhich is bordered on all sides by isolationis that we think so well of ourselves. I now see that I have helped myself to the best cuts at lifes banquet.
~ Saul Bellow
Selfishness is a bad habit. Thats why I always rationally think through my decisions to act without regard for others.
~ Unknown
Sono egoista, impaziente e un po' insicura. Commetto errori, sono fuori controllo e, allo stesso tempo, difficile da gestire. Ma se non sei in grado di gestire il mio lato peggiore, allora certamente non sarai in grado di gestire quello migliore.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Je suis égoïste, impatiente et peu sûre de moi. Je fais des erreurs, je suis hors de contrôle, et parfois difficile à gérer. Mais si vous ne pouvez pas me supporter pour le pire, nul doute que vous ne me méritez pas pour le meilleur.
~ Marilyn Monroe