Quotes About Selfishness

I was consumed by a selfishness and arrogance that I didn't dare let go of until I found a new persona to hide behind.

He says we've evolved to be selfish, cruel, and horrible in every way. But we've also evolved to be compassionate, loving, loyal, and amazing in every way." "Right,

No one wants to share their man, after all," continued Knight calmly when Jenna's scream subsided. "Even if the person they're sharing with is themselves. So now that he's all yours, Jenna, how about it?

And what happened when an individual cell became selfish and exhibited Nietzsche's will to power? It became a cancer. The cell would break free of the restraints on its own division and become immortal—for a while—until its very immortality choked the entire organism to death, killing the selfish cell in the process.

To this day, a delicate balance of pure selfishness in some respects and pure selflessness in others is hardwired into our genes. For the sake of discussion, let's use extremes. Call this selfishness sociopathy. Call this selflessness altruism.

Of course, marriage in one sense changes who you are in certain ways, but it also simply amplifies what you are. Many people think that when they got married, they turned into selfish people. What actually happened is they plugged the guitar into the amp and turned it up to eleven, and the selfish tune they had been playing the whole time suddenly became audible.

This is one of the oldest tricks in the book for sinful leaders: once you get into power, take whatever you can from the people, but all in the name of a higher good. This higher good may be God, or patriotism, or humanistic brotherhood, or democracy, but what all such power-abusers really want is more power for themselves.

Live for yourself: not for others.

If a man is forever concerned first and foremost with his own interests then he is bound to collide with others. If for any man life is a competition . . . then he will always think of other human beings as enemies, or at least as opponents who must be pushed out of the way . . . and the object of life becomes not to help others up but to push them down.[7]

Pride, Envy, and Avarice are the three sparks that have set these hearts on fire.

Our selfishness will condemn us to the worst suffering that we ourselves have invented - loneliness.

Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.

Oh blind! Oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity which spurs us so in the short mortal life and steeps us so through all eternity!

Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.

Our thoughts are either focused on what's eternal, life-changing, and true, or lost in the details of our temporary, selfish, false beliefs.

I don't want children. Why should I let some strange little monster into my life to destroy what to me is a perfect set-up?

What greater evil could you wish a miser, than long life?

There are points in your life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary.

The answer is greed. We are dying of greed. I don't know the cure for that.

My ex-wife did once accuse me of treating my own needs as if they were instructions and everyone else's needs as impediments.

I think I could go away tomorrow. I've already accomplished something. It's such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.

There is nothing more bitter than an opportunist who miscalculates.

i hate leaving places i love i was never at one place long. am i selfish?

Friendship is the call out of isolation and selfishness in order to teach me how to love and how to serve. But without stability, friendship - real soul-searing friendship, the kind that makes us choose between domination and infatuation and possessiveness and dependence for growth and freedom and depth and responsibility and self-knowledge - is impossible. Stability is what enables us, in other words, to live totally in God and totally for others.