Selfishness Quotes · Page 33

Being over protective doesn't means that you're selfish sometimes its just one way of letting people know that yours is yours

— John Arteme

“Our inability to give activates the spirits of hoarding, selfishness and greediness.”

— John Arthur

Parenthood helps you be less selfish, because you don't care about anything as much as you do them.

— Tom Fletcher

If you are greedy, what is inside you is what makes you always hungry.

— Amy Tan

“Supporting selfish people is a waste of time and energy! They will always find an excuse to blame you for their own…

— Lily Amis

“When it comes to misfortune, we are all selfish at heart, offering up the same prayers: not me, not mine. Not yet.”

— Simon Beckett

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

— Josh Billings

I hate selfish/self centered people. I hate stubborn people. And I hate how people can't be trusted.

— Anonymous

“Don't ever feel sad about who you are. Don't wish to be a daughter or son to a wealthy home, just because…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Materialistic greedy people, you know the sick people who have no connection with the community because of their infinite greed.

— Anonymous

“Your self-defense becomes a self-defeat when you are doing it for selfish reasons! It's not about you and your pocket alone; let…

— Israelmore Ayivor

Cooking is, to me, the perfect fusion of generosity and selfishness, indeed the resolution of generosity and selfishness, the answer to my…

— Tom Junod

The root of humanly caused evil is not man's animal nature, not territorial aggression, or innate selfishness, but our need to gain…

— Sam Keen

Men's moral principles are weak enough without their being made subordinate to selfishness; and their selfishness is quite active enough, without any…

— Lysander Spooner

Selfishness isnt just to have everything to yourself, it also trying to please everybody and get all the credit¦.its wasting of time…

— Blaze Olamiday

“Nearly everyone in the world has appetites and impulses, trigger emotions, islands of selfishness, lusts just beneath the surface.”

— John Steinbeck

“When we are in constant pain, we cannot empathize with others, nor can we help them. It is only when we allow…

— Vironika Tugaleva

“Selfishness comes from too little self-love, not too much, as we compensate for our lack. There's no such thing as caring for…

— Anita Moorjani

The capacity for loving strangers, whether one thinks of them as fictional beings or stars one will never meet, is a profound…

— Edward Jay Epstein

We live in a world filled with language. Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human community. Writers are either polluters…

— Mary Pipher

I'm trying 2 b that strong girl that every 1 new she would make it through the worst & make it through…

— Samantha Shipman

“All witches are selfish, the Queen had said. But Tiffany’s Third Thoughts said: Then turn selfishness into a weapon! Make all things…

— Terry Pratchett

A lot of times, people think of selfish, and they think of offense, but you can be selfish on the defensive end…

— J. B. Bickerstaff

“Selfishness, hatred, envy, jealousy, greed, self-indulgence, laziness and pride were all anti-life. Love, heroism, self-sacrifice, sympathy, mercy, integrity and creative faith, on…

— Ernest Gordon

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

— Harry S. Truman

“Arrogance and selfishness are not the only reasons behind our loneliness, but most often we used to be alone because of them.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.” (Jane Austen)”

— Jane Austen

Sorry sweethearts, but I'm not a candle. I won't burn myself just to let you see through the darkness and then blow…

— Anonymous

Aggression is the first step on the slippery slope to selfishness and chaos.

— Anne Campbell

Some say I'm selfish. My approach is the complete opposite of selfishness.

— Joey Votto

“Selfishness is not an option, even when it comes to a cell’s own survival.”

— Deepak Chopra

“Greedy is the one who is disappointed when he finds silver in gold mine!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

The truth is, I think we are a self-less society, not a selfish society. Because we're so busy now.

— Phil McGraw

If you want to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fear.

— Glenn Clark

I'm a greedy old man. Life's been good to me, and I want some more of it.

— John Wayne

“Be fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful.”6”

— Charles R. Morris

Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

— Anonymous

One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves.

— Susan Sontag

A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.

— Albert Einstein