Selfish Person Quotes

A lot of people were saying that I was a selfish person and a selfish player. You know, it got to me.

I am a very selfish person.

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

People think that you are a nasty, selfish person if you don`t want to have children.

A selfish person can still love someone else, can't they? Even when they've hurt them and let them down.

We've all met a certain type of spiritual person. She's a wonderful person. She loves the Lord. She prays and reads the Bible all the time. But all she thinks about is herself. She's not a selfish person. But she's always at the center of everything she's doing.

There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us

A selfish person says, hey, me and my four at home and no more and whatever happens to you is OK. But it can't be that way. It cannot be that way.

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.

To exercise some sort of control over others is the secret motive of every selfish person.

Notwithstanding his very liberal laudation of himself, however, the Major was selfish. It may be doubted whether there ever was a more entirely selfish person at heart; or at stomach is perhaps a better expression, seeing that he was more decidedly endowed with that latter organ than with the former.

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

Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

The dictionary describes a selfish person as one who is 'concerned excessively or exclusively with oneself: seeking pleasure or well-being without regard for others.' May we add, a selfish person is often one who refers to 'I,' 'me,' and 'mine' rather than to 'we,' 'ours,' 'yours,' or 'theirs.' This person is anxious to be in the limelight, to be on center stage in life's little dramas. He or she may be a poor listener, or a conversation monopolizer. Selfishness is the great unknown sin. No selfish person ever thought himself to be selfish.

I can say with a solid degree of authority that I am a selfish person. I spontaneously forget the names of more people than not, unless I want to make out with them. I will take the last square of toilet paper off the roll without thinking twice. I tip taxi drivers so poorly I'm amazed none of them have run over my foot while speeding off.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

What makes a genius? The ability to see. To see what? The butterfly in a caterpillar, the eagle in an egg, the saint in a selfish person, life in death, unity in separation, God in the human and human in God and suffering as the form in which the incomprehensibility of God himself appears.