Self Centered Quotes

Self Centered Quote of the day

Problems in relationship occur because each person is concentrating on what is missing in the other person.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway.

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway.

You will never find a truly happy self-centered person. They simply don't exist.

It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered.

We have become so self-centered that we go to God only for something from Him, and not for God Himself.

Actors are inherently self-centered.

Careful obedience to God’s law may serve as a strategy for rebelling against God

It is only by frequent deaths of ourselves and our self-centered desires that we can come to live more fully.

I love to put on frequency music or binaural beats to keep myself centered. It helps me with mental clarity, and it gives me a moment to breathe and be present.

If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.

Writers are too self-centered to be lonely.

We all get self-centered.

I have never been particularly impressed by the self centered musings of my fellow writers.

[H]e is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.

It's okay if there isn't a God anymore, but I still want to respect something. I don't want to be the center of my own universe,

Some people are thoroughly self-centred. This thing goes with me. I need it for moral support.

Greed is the fast-track to poverty.

If I’m conceited enough to believe I’m invincible, then maybe it will take me doing the very thing I swore I would never do to understand that I’m not as wonderful as I thought I was.

Everyone lives a self-centered life...whether its trivial like what's for breakfast, or more ambitious, like achieving some lofty goal, a person is constantly on her own mind.

If you haven’t figured it out yet, an absolutely certain way to lose something as quickly as possible is to forget the privilege you have to possess it in the first place.

One is not necessarily made self-centered because he is foolish, but one is very often made foolish because he is self-centered.

Your ability to see will never broaden when you only see yourself.

You can dress up greed, but you can’t stop the stench.

Love in the service of self is greed in disguise.

As long as you are focused on your own problems, you live and think as a self-centered man.

The problem is not that we don’t recognize the truth when we hear it. The problem is that we don’t want to recognize what the truth might mean for us if we hear it.

If I have attached anything to sacrifice other than loss, I have at some level assumed a pay-off. And if I’ve assumed a pay-off, I’m only assuming a sacrifice.

To observe life is not only to organize your internal and external life, but reach to the state, from where, without any effort, both your internal and external life, moves in synchronization.

I am selfish by habit, but sacrificial by nature. Therefore, I’d be wise to develop the habit of following my nature.

You will find your true spirit when you lose your egocentric, self-centered desires and fill your mind with pure love and non-judgmental thoughts.

The ego is what drives a self-serving individual who hates to admit they are wrong.

Sacrifice of the self is sheer stupidity if sacrifice is not for the self.

Anger gets you into trouble, ego keeps you in trouble.

Don"t gaze too hard at your belly button Or you will unexpectedly hit rock bottom!

If I’m my biggest fan, the only person in the stadium is probably me.

The shortest short-term investment is to serve ourselves.

Trying to destroy yourself gives a pretty clear message and it's not one I think you'd like. Sounds a bit like, “I'm too self-centered to be constructive, so I have to open a vein…

A compass calibrated by my greed is a rather shrewd way to legitimize my agenda. However, true north on a compass such as this is a straight line to the edge of a really big cliff.

At the time we glorify self instead of glorify God, at that time we are wasting our time as... God is Time.

To embrace an attitude of humility is to free myself from myself. And that is likely the great liberation of all.

If I were to sit down and count them, how many of my prayers were tainted by the seduction of greed? None, simply because nothing of that sort is a prayer.

The change from self-centeredness to human-centeredness is the key to peaceful existence.

In one way or another, every mission that I have ever set out on to rescue myself is yet another mission that I end up needing to be rescued from. Hence, there is God.

Selfie-centered person!

The eyes of love have 20/20 vision when focused on another, and become entirely blind when focused on ourselves.

Five of the most dangerous words I know: ‘What’s in it for me?

I am most thankful for what I don’t have, for had my life’s wish list been filled in the manner I had chosen I would be steeped in meaningless trinkets verses bathed in God’s treasures.

The thing that I’m most likely to collapse under is not the weight of the stresses that stand around me, but the ego that sits within me.

To be an end in myself is to bring an end to myself.