Quotes About Selfish

When we seek our own pleasure as the ultimate good we place ourselves as the center of the universe.

addictive behavior is often a search for safety rather than an attempt to rebel or a selfish turn inward

Why can't I ask?" "This is because . . . because if you ask it . . . it is no longer a wish but a selfish desire," said Amah. "Haven't I taught you—that it is wrong to think of your own needs? A girl can never ask, only listen.

I am sure you would not understand if I told you my father is delightfully clear and selfish, tender and lying, formal and incurable. He exhausts all the loves given to him. If I did not leave his house at night to warm myself in Rango's burning hands I would die at my task, arid and barren, sapless, while my father monologues about his past, and I yawn yawn yawn...

Virtue, whatever else it means, at least means being more human; it would not be virtuous if it did not. Sin, whatever else it means, means being less human, more still, cold, proud, selfish, mean, cruel, and all the rest of it.

Everyday, there are choices to make and sometimes you make a selfish one.

Have I not taught you, that marriage is a duty, whenever it can be enter'd into with prudence? What a mean, what a selfish mind must that person have, whether man or woman, who can resolve against entering into the state, because it has its cares, its fatigues, its inconveniencies!

She thought of the orchids spreading across the plains below, choking the life out of other plants, out of the soil itself, selfish and unstoppable. Tally Youngblood was a weed. And, unlike the orchids, she wasn't even a pretty one.

She thought of the orchids spreading across the plains below, choking the life out of the other plants, out of the soil itself, selfish and unstoppable.

Business demands faith, compels earnestness, requires courage, is honestly selfish, is penalized for mistakes, and is the essence of life.

Because I'm selfish. I'm a coward. I'm the kind of girl who, when she might actually be of use, would run to stay alive and leave those who couldn't follow to suffer and die.

Nevertheless, an iron rule exists in genetic social evolution. It is that selfish individuals beat altruistic individuals, while groups of altruists beat groups of selfish individuals. The victory can never be complete; the balance of selection pressures cannot move to either extreme. If individual selection were to dominate, societies would dissolve. If group selection were to dominate, human groups would come to resemble ant colonies.

It was because all we wanted was each other's constant love and attention and for no one else to receive that love and attention, which is a selfish and difficult place to be in a relationship. We were emotionally retarded, and that was the best we could do at the time.

A foolish guy easily falls into the love trap of a selfish gal.

A foolish person always thinks that by following and supporting the selfish people can fulfill own wish, but eventually ends up giving them even that which is her/ his.

A foolish person does not usually accept the unheard fact unless and until the same thing is told to him by some selfish insect i.e fake/fraud and when other stupid people in his contacts have also agreed to that thing said correct.

A genuine kindness is usually not appreciated in a wicked world full of foolish , dubious and selfish people.

A good thought with a bad or selfish intention will have the multiple ill-effects on the motivation of the audience than even a bit of wrong impact from the bad words of a good or selfless person.

A mother is so,so selfish that she even cooks the dish for her children only of her own liking only ,but asks them as what they want to have to merely see if their food demand matches with her wish.

A person who has evil intention and plays with people's emotion for selfish gain can neither be cured with meditation nor medication, and even does not feel relieved of stress & strain through any amount of Yoga session.

A person who is a self-centered loves merely oneself and enjoys often being pictured on online posts or thoughts or words and those are only liked by a horde of people who are also of same selfish nature in our materialistic world.

A person who is telling only those things that the people are willing to hear for fulfilling their greed is not motivating but misleading them to satiate solely own selfish need.

A private sector employer has always own profitability merely in mind, so obviously s/he will find own nature compatibility with only that kind of employees who have selfish mentality rather than with those workforce who do job diligently with punctuality and sincerity .

A private sector employer thinks always and merely about own profitability, so the owner will have a natural affinity towards the employees with the same level of selfish mentality rather than those workforce who do job diligently with sincerity.