Top Selfishness Quotes

A true generous heart can never revolve majorly with monetary skills nor business acumen nor cunning mind.

Even the respectable have a small anarchist hidden on the inside.

Selfishness Definition

(n.) The quality or state of being selfish; exclusive regard to one's own interest or happiness; that supreme self-love or self-preference which leads a person to direct his purposes to the advancement of his own interest, power, or happiness, without regarding those of others.

People value you till they needs you.

You may possibly become rich by just caring about yourself and what you want to gain from your profession and your life but you cannot possibly enrich the lives of everyone you meet that way.

While it lasts, the religion of worshiping oneself is the best.

I cannot calculate nor attempt to manage sacrifice, for to do so is to attempt to sacrifice comfortably. And it is in the attempt to sacrifice comfortably that I begin to realize that the desire for c...

The love of our neighbor is the only door out of the dungeon of self, where we mope and mow, striking sparks, and rubbing phosphorescences out of the walls, and blowing our own breath in our own nostr...

Strange that only a little problem of your own will take your mind far from a tragedy belonging to others.

He did not smile. 'We are the keepers of the world's greatest treasures. Does that mean nothing to you?' My children are my greatest treasures,' she said. 'Stone no matter how old, means nothing to me...

Manifest plainness,Embrace simplicity,Reduce selfishness,Have few desires.

Everyone wants a piece of you. The trick is what piece to give.

She also keeps talking about the Billie Holiday record she bought for me. And she says she wants to expose me to all these great things. And to tell you the truth, I don't really want to be exposed to...

Vivien thought how ugly adults could be, how weak. So used to getting what they wanted that they didn't know the first thing about being brave.

If You Think that Everyone Swindles You, You are a Selfish Person

It is an occult law moreover, that no man can rise superior to his individual failings without lifting, be it ever so little, the whole body of which he is an integral part. In the same way no one can...

Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.

Self-interest lies behind all that men do, forming the important motive for all their actions; this rule has never deceived me

Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.

Selfishness Stops The Flow Of Blessings To You and Others

We hurt people, when we give ourselves more value than others.