Quotes About Selfishness

One of the worst things in sports is when selfishness gets disguised as truth.

Politicians will only exploit you for nothing.

I did what I felt that I wanted to do. Fairly selfishly. I didn't know my kids as well as I should have.

But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving.

Every forward is selfish, and any forward who tells you he is not selfish is a liar.

Where other men saw living, breathing human beings, Shane saw only cogs in society's engine, to manipulate and use as it suited him best.

He was a swine whose only god was gold.

What my father said about businessmen applies to liberals ... They're sons of bitches. The people who are selfish are interested in their own singular course of action and do not take into consideration the needs or requirements of others and what can ultimately be accomplished.

It was far from the first time he'd encountered the tendency to believe the dead would have wanted whatever was most convenient to the living.

he was an evil, amoral bastard who told everyone he met he was an evil, amoral bastard and what happened? Women fell over themselves to get at him.

But there was no use. There was no point. It was just a story. It was just a story of people, of Ralph and Emilia and Antonio and Catherine and the mothers and the fathers who had died, too soon or late, of people who had hurt one another as much as people can do, who had been selfish and not wise, and had become trapped inside the bitter walls of memories they wished they had never had. It

He would move from city to city as he had always done, using people, soiling them like sheets and walking away, to find fresh faces and new diversions.

talented employees who put their needs ahead of their colleagues and the company are dangerous.

These malicious takers immediately start conniving to exploit people for their own purposes—but back off when they encounter uncooperative and selfish people like themselves.

When people (regardless of personality) wield power, their ability to lord it over others causes them to (1) become more focused on their own needs and wants; (2) become less focused on others' needs, wants, and actions; and (3) act as if written and unwritten rules others are expected to follow don't apply to them.

alone knows what times we are living in when undisguised selfishness stifles all feelings of conscience, duty, or even ordinary decency.

narcissistic personality disorder. These people really feel that they are the center of the universe (although they aren't centered themselves) and that others exist to serve them. Instead of mirroring others, they insatiably seek mirroring from them. Instead of seeing others, they seek to be seen by them.

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

George Stout saw through their acts. "I am sick of all schemers," he wrote, "of all the vain crawling toads who now edge into positions of advantage and look for selfish gain or selfish glory from all this suffering."13

All of us are greedy to some extent.

Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 percent Of everything you think, And of everything you do, Is for yourself — And there isn't one. – Wei Wu Wei

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

Forgiving someone who has wronged you is actually a selfish act rather than a selfless one.

Every year that I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence which will risk nothing, and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well." —Mary Cholmondeley