Selfishness Quotes · Page 32

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

— LeBron James

I think music is a selfish masturbatory event - for the listener, the maker, the candlestick...maker.

— Joshua Homme

My desire for the part of Mammy was not dominated by selfishness for Hollywood has been good to me and I am…

— Hattie McDaniel

Nothing is more condemnable than selfishness. A man who thinks of himself alone is the most unlucky person of all.

— Anand Neelakantan

I was a greedy, ravenous individual, determined to rise from the bottom to the top . . . It wasn't me!

— Jack Unterweger

“But then, I knew so little about my mother over the last decade of her life. I had been too wrapped up…

— Mitch Albom

“Selfish act is very tempting but it leaves a permanent dent on your character.”

— Saru Singhal

There is a prodigious selfishness in dreams: they live perfectly deaf and invulnerable amid the cries of the real world.

— George Santayana

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

“i will tell you about selfish people. even when they know they will hurt you they walk into your life to taste…

— Rupi Kaur

Sometimes people who want more than they can handle end up losing everything altogether. Greed and selfishness will get you nowhere in…

— Ritu Ghatourey

It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to…

— E. W. Howe

The worthless and offensive members of society, whose existence is a social pest, invariably think themselves the most ill-used people alive, and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— John Steinbeck

Marriage is one of the most humbling, sanctifying journeys you will ever be a part of. It forces us to wrestle with…

— Francis Chan

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to life. Selfishness always…

— Oscar Wilde

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

“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

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 have no festival, nor procession, nor ceremony, not excepting our cattle-shows and so-called Thanksgivings, by which the farmer expresses a sense…

— Henry David Thoreau

“My illness helped me to see that what was missing in society is what was missing in me: a little heart, a…

— Lee Atwater

You must pray for yourself constantly. How could it be otherwise? We worship God by believing in Him, trusting Him, and loving…

— Emmet Fox

“Declare your jihad on thirteen enemies you cannot see -egoism, arrogance, conceit, selfishness, greed, lust, intolerance, anger, lying, cheating, gossiping and slandering.…

— Anonymous

“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

“...perhaps great sins start as simple weakness, and the consistent placing of self before others.”

— Anne Perry

“The spirit will unfold itself in true perfection and splendor, when your heart has banished your selfishness.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

Camera but no selfies, which represent selfishness and egotism. Social media? Again: not really me.

— Maurice Levy

If a person is being selfish, let them be because all their life they must've always been selfless!

— Habeebah(Kanoorbee

“Survival is a passive way of saying “my needs are greater than yours.”

— Caroline George

“Do all you can to defeat selfish shepherding in your own heart. We”

— James MacDonald

If your actions are motivated by selfish interests rather than God, you are mortgaging tomorrow's joy.

— T. B. Joshua

The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings.

— Honore de Balzac

“There's no room for selfishness when you have a defenseless human being depending on you.”

— Mia Asher

Yes I'm selfish and care about myself,that's only because I've cared to much about others who never cared about me.

— Selena Moreno

“The successful are those who can be saved from their own selfishness.”

— Fazlur Rahman

Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.

— Graham Greene

“...only in relatively recent times have people decided that "because I want to" is sufficient reason for annoying others.”

— Bill McKibben

The better I am, the better the team is, so you should want me to be selfish about how good I am.

— Trevor Bauer

This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.

— Jessica Lange

“Take taking from those that give & nobody anywhere will need any more such gifts.”

— Kenneth Patchen