Quotes About Selfishness

There's always a little decency in the worst places.... and always little secret selfishness in the best.

Many people are unhappy and are not experiencing life to its fullest because they've closed their hearts to compassion, they are motivated by only what they want and what they think they need. They rarely do anything for anybody else unless they have an ulterior goal in mind. They are self-involved and self-centered.

There are always those prepared to sacrifice civilised principles for personal gain,

"A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others"

Now is the one time in my life I can be 100% selfish. I'm not married; I don't have kids; I can focus on my career.

If you must hate, if hatred is the leaven of your life, which alone can give flavor, then hate what should be hated: falsehood, violence, selfishness.

Racing is a very selfish, self-centred, self-glorifying thing. My wife's life for 14 years was centered around me. It was all about me. It was all for my ego.

Every tyrant who ever lived has believed in freedom — for himself.

Thread of Selfishness in Web of Life.—Deuteronomy contains much instruction regarding what the law is to us, and the relation we shall sustain to God as we reverence and obey

I do not seek the good of others as a sanction for my right to exist, nor do I recognize the good of others as a justification for their seizure of my property or their destruction of my life.

When you live life for yourself it's hard on everyone. And that hasn't changed. For me, if anything, it's gotten worse.

Altruism is written in everlasting and resplendent character on the Cross of Christ, and it was at Calvary that the centre of life was shifted from selfishness to sacrifice.

This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication.

I've come to the point in my life where I encourage young Native Americans to become much more selfish about their personal needs and wants.

Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment.

You remind us that we're selfish bastards. You're not one of us, that way.

Men still walk around like the US of A is a big cake store and all the cake is for them.

Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.

the elves and dwarves were considered the greater races, the humans and blighters the lesser ones. He said the shorter-lived races would be thriving when the others were gone and just legends. In his mind, the great races think only of themselves, the lesser live and build for their children and grandchildren's world.

It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

Enlightened persons to not allow the sultry urges of the sub-conscious mind to influence the thoughts of their soul. -They condemn selfish urges as irresponsible. And do not regard their sense of responsibility as morbid. Rather they feel that it is a sign of a spiritually healthy mind.

A bad leader: • Will lie or stretch the truth • Puts his own interests first • Promotes himself ahead of his people • Is disrespectful • Won't let me do my job • Doesn't pull his share of the load.

For, while selflessness is the law, to belittle self is a form of selfishness and not selfless. But putting the ideal in that which is the Way, know that if and when the Lord is with thee, ye are already in the great majority; ye are then glorifying the Lord, not attempting to justify self. For, justifying of self is blaming someone else.

The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires