Selfish People Quotes

I got a dream that's worth more than my reality.

We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.

There are many selfish people who are extremely original, then they take those pure ideas and use them to raise themselves up, that is an insincere move.

Here I am going to say something which may come as a bit of a shock. God doesn't necessarily want us to be happy. He wants us to be lovable. Worthy of love. Able to be loved by Him. We don't start off being all that lovable, if we're honest. What makes people hard to love? Isn't it what is commonly called selfishness? Selfish people are hard to love because so little love comes out of them.

Selfish people are in a way terribly capable of great loves.

It is the ignorant person who seeks his or her own ends at the expense of the greater whole. It is the ignorant person, therefore, who is the selfish person. The truly wise person is never selfish.

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

Here's a news flash--writers are selfish people. Truth is, creative types like me are driven by one impulse--to make up a world in which we get to control everything and everyone. We decide who enters and who exits, what the weather will be, who will hook up with whom, who will win and who will lose. It makes us feel powerful and, in all honesty, has relatively little to do with thinking about what will make anyone else happy.

If you don't like me, remember it's mind over matter. I don't mind, and you don't matter.

Now I had lived long enough and had heard enough from urchins my age and from other slaves, to distrust the person who calls himself merciful, or just, or kindly. Usually these are the most cruel, niggardly and selfish people, and slaves learn to fear the master who prefaces his remarks with tributes to his own virtues.

If there is one thing I dislike, it is the man who tries to air his grievances when I wish to air mine.

It's usually the selfish people who are loved the most. They do what you deny yourself, and you love them for it. You give them your heart.

Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.

God's Word teaches a very hard, disturbing truth. Those who neglect the poor and the oppressed are really not God's people at all—no matter how frequently they practice their religious rituals nor how orthodox are their creeds and confessions.

Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves; the happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others...By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.

Selfishness is weakness. But loving and caring for others is a position of power beyond anything we can possibly imagine.

Yet, while producing increasingly selfish people, the mantra of the Left, and therefore of the universities and the media, has been for generations that capitalism and the free market, not the welfare state, produces selfish people.

Politics these days is a disgusting game of mud-slinging, filled with selfish people with selfish aims. I'm very glad I've retired away from the hustle and bustle of Whitehall.

There's no doubt about it: fun people are fun. But I finally learned that there is something more important, in the people you know, than whether they are fun. Thinking about those friends who had given me so much pleasure but who had also caused me so much pain, thinking about that bright, cruel world to which they'd introduced me, I saw that there's a better way to value people. Not as fun or not fun, or stylish or not stylish, but as warm or cold, generous or selfish. People who think about others and people who don't. People who know how to listen, and people who only know how to talk.

Selfish people, with no heart to speak of, have the best time of it.

Most men worry about their own bellies and other people's souls, when we all ought to be worried about our own souls and other people's bellies.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

Almost every sinful action ever committed can be traced back to a selfish motive. It is a trait we hate in other people but justify in ourselves.

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

Selfishness, not love, is the actuating motive of the gallant.

The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places.

Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

I met a new girl at a barbecue, very pretty, a blond I think. I don't know, her hair was on fire, and all she talked about was herself. You know these kind of girls: 'I'm hot. I'm on fire. Me, me, me.' You know. 'Help me, put me out.' Come on, could we talk about me just a little bit?

Our vision is to look through the eyes of our kids. We are a lucky, peaceful nation. We are an unselfish people. That's one of our proudest national attributes.

All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.

Not that I say,"Oh,I'm not going to associate with certain people.," but I have my world,and I only want to be around people who I feel stimulated by. I have to be honest I do have a new quest: I want to meet more vegetarians,people who are more like minded. There's something real neat about that feeling. It makes you feel so settled to know there's somebody else sitting right there,being so passionate about what I'm passionate about. I don't want to be around selfish people. I try to keep myself surrounded by deep people who will move me.

So, let us, you and I, for the sake of our brother man, individually strive by example and influence to lift the standard of thought and conduct from the low level of selfishness and self-indulgence up to the lofty realms of aspirational thought and self-denial.

Think what a contribution selfish people of great talent could have made if their commitments had been made to Jesus Christ instead of to themselves! We will do better in every aspect of our lives if we commit to a God in whose life we see miracles, power over disease and death.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

The simple recognition that everyone else wants to be happy and not to suffer, just as I do, serves as a constant reminder against selfishness and partiality. It reminds us there is little to be gained from being kind and generous while hoping to win something in return. Actions motivated by a desire to earn a good name for ourselves are still selfish, even if they appear to be acts of kindness.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

A Christian marriage is [not] one with no problems or even a marriage with fewer problems. (It may well mean more problems.) But it does mean a life in which two people are able to accept each other and love each other in the midst of problems and fears. It means a marriage in which selfish people can accept selfish people without constantly trying to change them -- and even accept themselves, because they realize personally that they have been accepted by Christ.