Selfish People Quotes

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  • “Now ‘ll do what’s best for me”
  • “A selfish man is a thief.”
  • “Real is so rare these days.”
  • “I want to be selfish, but let me find myself first.”
  • “I’m only selfish when it comes to you.”
  • “Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless.” — Edward Albert
  • “I am done with being someone who is needed by others.”
  • “A relationship runs with selfless love, not selfish” — Urvashi Agarwal
  • “A selfish man doesn’t care if his best friend drowns beside him.” — Joe Cervantes
  • “Selfishness creates greed and greed destroys the soul.” — Zarina Bibi
  • “The poison of selfishness destroys the world.” — Catherine of Siena
  • “Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.” — William E. Gladstone
  • “To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.” ― Albert Camus
  • “Selfish people are in a way terribly capable of great loves.”
  • “Self-love is the greatest middle finger of all time.”
  • “People reveal themselves through their actions.”
  • “Everyone is doing the wrong thing to prove themselves right.”
  • “Make yourself a priority.”
  • “Identify in the world of verbs, people are looking to become a noun.”
  • “Selfishness is a swamp that sucks in all and gives back nothing.” — John Thornton
  • “Who wants everything every time will lose everything anytime.” — Vikrant Parsai
  • “Self-centered people have only one topic to talk about—themselves.” — Stef Harder
  • “Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.” ― Lao Tzu
  • “It’s good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people.” —Hugh Hefner
  • “You never look good trying to make someone else look bad.”
  • “Don’t be angry with people who don’t have the capacity to change.”
  • “Some people are like clouds once they are gone, It’s a beautiful day.”
  • “Yes, I am selfish because I will never share you with anyone else.”
  • “A lot of problems in the world would disappear if we talk to each other instead of about each other.”
  • “A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines.” — Benjamin Franklin
  • “Selfishness is the root and source of all natural and moral evils.” — Nathaniel Emmons
  • “There is only one force stronger than selfishness, and that is stupidity.” — Ellen Glasgow
  • “We are selfish but be wise selfish rather than foolish, self-sided selfish.” — Dalai Lama
  • “If you don’t like me remember it’s mind over matter, I don’t mind and you don’t matter.”
  • “When you start seeing your worth, you’ll find it harder to stay around people who don’t”
  • “Selflove, dedicated too much to toxicants, time to inhale selfishness.”
  • “Selfish: a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their power of sacrifice.” — George Eliot
  • “Selfishness stops the flow of blessings to you and others.” — Brenda Johnson Padgitt
  • “Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.” — Erich Fromm
  • “Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice and is never the result of selfishness.” — Napoleon Hill
  • “Selfishness is the most unattractive virtue a mortal can possess.” — Suyasha Subedi
  • “People call you selfish only when they cannot manipulate you into doing what they want.”
  • “No fake people required when I have some real ones in my life!”
  • “A self-absorbed person only can see the faults of others but they are often colour blind to their own.”
  • “Selfishness is when you only remember a friend if you need something from them.” — Unknown
  • “The real measure of selfishness is by asking a person how much he is willing to sacrifice.” — Unknown
  • “Putting yourself first is not selfish. Thinking about yourself constantly is selfish. Please respect the difference.” — Unknown
  • “Be kind enough to everyone that no one would ever doubt you to be selfish even if you are.” — Unknown
  • “Selfish people don’t consider how their decisions affect others. Their own convenience is all that matters.”
  • “Selfishness is weakness. But loving and caring for others is a position of power beyond anything we can possibly imagine.” — Joel Osteen
  • “A selfish friend invites you into their maze of painful emotions and then traps you there.” — Christina J. Daniels
  • “Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion.” — Daniel Goleman, Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships
  • “It’s enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back.” — Adrian Grenier
  • “This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.” — Jessica Lange
  • “While selfishness joins hands with no one of the virtues, benevolence is allied to them all.” — Oliver Goldsmith
  • “When I am being selfish, my soul screams louder inside me, I wonder how are they sleeping peacefully.”
  • “Selfishness is not living your life as you wish. It is asking others to live their lives as you wish.”
  • “That’s the problem with putting other people first. You’ve taught them you come second.”
  • “Almost every sinful action ever committed can be traced back to a selfish motive. It’s a trait we hate in other people but justify in ourselves.” — Stephen Kendrick, The Love Dare
  • “Even a tiny bit of deceit is dishonorable when it’s used for selfishness or cowardly reasons.” — Jeanne Birdsall
  • “I am a selfish soul whats all these disease and filth all the crippled and the sick as all day I merry around little I care what’s going around.”
  • “Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect.” — George Sand, Indiana
  • “Someone who smiles too much with you can sometimes frown too much with you at your back.” — Michael Bassey Johnson
  • “In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.” — David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
  • “Selfishness is the making a man’s self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doeth.” — John Owen
  • “Please hold onto your kindness. We share the world with many selfish beings and we need open hearts to create change.” — Nikki Rowe
  • “You love to feel special. Right? But you are willing to make others your priority as well?
  • “Don’t doubt someone at their best. Don’t judge someone at their worst. Everyone is going through something.”
  • “It is interesting how the selfish, the ignorant, and the constantly angry all tend to be the same person.” — Wayne Gerard Trotman
  • “Selfishness may result in one’s sense of superiority, but life as such will surely deny them.” — Eraldo Banovac
  • “The only difference between a hero and the villain is that the villain chooses to use that power in a
  • “There are many selfish people who are extremely original, then they take those pure ideas and use them to raise themselves up. That is an insincere move.”  — Daniel Smith
  • “The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.”
  • “Those who do not hate their own selfishness and regard themselves as more important than the rest of the world are blind because the truth lies elsewhere.” — Blaise Pascal
  • “I am a selfish soul I don’t see the sorrows around I don’t hear the cries I just curse the system to change. What good did I do to change.”
  • “People need to learn that their actions do affect other people. So be careful what you say and do, it’s not always just about you!!”
  • “Selfish people rarely recognize how selfish they are. If you think this is about someone else rather than yourself, you’re probably the selfish one in denial.”
  • “Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
  • “Having trouble spotting a selfish person? It´s about their schedule, their needs, their hurt feelings, their ideas, their goals, their…” — Shannon Thomas
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