Quotes About Selfishness

You can't be faulted for being selfish if you're going to get better because of it.

I was very selfish when I was in the military - a very selfish man.

Drugs are a very selfish thing.

Like everybody else, I am naturally selfish, and so I'm going to think about myself.

The last thing in the world I want to do is marry. I am too selfish, but I won't elaborate on that.

When you first sit down to write songs, you have to be selfish.

I was always pretty selfish.

There are times where you have to be selfish.

I enjoyed being single and selfish and only having myself to worry about.

I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness.

Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.

Childlessness doesn't make people selfish; selfishness makes people selfish.

I don't think I like sharing the limelight.

I change my mind so much, I'm better going on my own. Shopping is a selfish activity anyway.

Maybe you're a little selfish that day; maybe you want something, and it can't happen, but you don't want to take no for an answer. Everybody has those moments, and you just have to be okay with being open and showing it.

I don't live for anyone other than myself, and I don't have a problem showing people or telling them.

When someone says, 'I'm not political,' I feel like what they're saying is, 'I only care about myself. In my bathtub. Me and my bathtub is what I care about.'

If I can't be happy, nobody can be happy.

Too often, people view their own opportunity as dependent on domination over others, which helps explain why such people see the expansion of opportunity for all as a loss of opportunity for themselves.

predators who use charm, manipulation, intimidation, sex and violence to control others and to satisfy their own selfish needs. Lacking in conscience and empathy, they take what they want and do as they please, violating social norms and expectations without guilt or remorse. What is missing, in other words, are the very qualities that allow a human being to live in social harmony.

psychopaths as "predators who use charm, manipulation, intimidation, sex and violence to control others and to satisfy their own selfish needs. Lacking in conscience and empathy, they take what they want and do as they please, violating social norms and expectations without guilt or remorse. What is missing, in other words, are the very qualities that allow a human being to live in social harmony.

It's true, I am afraid of dying. I am afraid of the world moving forward without me, of my absence going unnoticed, or worse, being some natural force propelling life on. Is it selfish? Am I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do? I don't mean the world ending with respect to me, but every set of eyes closing with mine.

It's true, I am afraid of dying. I am afraid of the world moving forward without me, of my absence going unnoticed, or worse, being some natural force propelling life on. Is it selfish? Am I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do?

La vergüenza es la sensación que nos invade cuando olvidamos casi por completo, pero no del todo, las expectativas sociales y nuestras obligaciones para con los otros, a cambio de nuestra satisfacción inmediata.