Selfishness Quotes

693 Selfishness quotes by 476 unique authors

I didn't want to believe that killing was deep inside of me. I didn't want to think about the part of me that took a… — Jim Butcher
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… — Stephen Kendrick
What's wrong with selfishness and egotism? We live to die smiling, don't we? — Kazuya Minekura
People pontificate, "Suicide is selfishness." Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call in a cowardly assault on the living. Oafs argue this… — David Mitchell
As we come to grips with our own selfishness and stupidity, we make friends with the impostor and accept that we are impoverished and broken… — Brennan Manning
It's something about the inevitability. How nothing can keep them apart--not her selfishness, or his evil, or even death, in the end...their love is their… — Stephenie Meyer
We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed in feeling sorry for ourselves) behind.… — John H. Groberg
I guess I've been waiting so long I'm looking for perfection. That makes it tough." "Waiting for perfect love?" "No, even I know better than… — Haruki Murakami
Why fight the 'natural' (oh, weaselly word!) order of things? Why? Because of this--one fine day, a purely predatory world shall consume itself. In an… — David Mitchell
You fueled my obession, even encouraged it and your selfishness ruined my life — Novala Takemoto
Selfishness at the core is to think you have a special problem- a problem that God cannot deal with, that God didn’t deal with at… — Eric Ludy
Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life. — Stendhal
So it is the fear, weakness, selfishness, and cowardice of onlookers that permit evil behavior to persist. — Laura Schlessinger
I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction. Yet true happiness… — Dalai Lama
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… — William Nicholson
God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness and wake us up to the presence… — William Nicholson
Generosity is the only legitimate selfishness. — Mario Benedetti
I have observed that the prosperity or misery of each people is in direct proportion to its liberties or its prejudices and, accordingly, to the… — Jose Rizal
Love is the most selfish of all the passions. — Alexandre Dumas
Love...no such thing. Whatever it is that binds families and married couples together, that's not love. That's stupidity or selfishness or fear. Love doesn't exist.… — Arthur Rimbaud
People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon. — Vanna Bonta
Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness… — Corrie Ten Boom
Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame. — Jose Rizal
Comrades!' he cried. 'You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us… — George Orwell
Maybe a new religion will rise now. Maybe without it, man will crumble in cynicism and selfishness because he really needs his gods. — Anne Rice

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