Selfish Quotes

A selfish man is a thief.

Idiot! Lunatic! Moron! Jackass! Selfish irresponsible fool!

In effect, a selfish and boundless thirst for power and material prosperity leads both to the misuse of available natural resources and to the exclusion of the weak and the disadvantaged.

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

I admit that I ain't no angel, I admit that I ain't no saint - I'm selfish and I'm cruel and I'm blind. If I exorcise my devils, well my angels may leave too. When they leave they're so hard to find.

Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology.

When you're younger, you're more selfish, because there's so much self-exploration, you're in your own mind.

I'm trying to teach people not to be selfish. That's the thing. If you have a good thing share it. Of course we're not in a sexual relationship.

God does not choose a person for ease and comfort and selfish joy but for a task that will take all that head and heart and hand can bring to it. God chooses a man in order to use him.

The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places.

Live your life as you see fit. That's not selfish. Selfish is to demand that others live their lives as you see fit.

That which is selfish is immoral, and that which is unselfish is moral.

Writing is a cop-out. An excuse to live perpetually in fantasy land, where you can create, direct and watch the products of your own head. Very selfish.

Never trust a sentimentalist. They are all alike, pretenders to virtue, at heart selfish frauds and sensualists.

To be selfish, greedy and unwilling to help the needy gives rise to future starvation and clothlessness.

People who are cognitively busy are also more likely to make selfish choices, use sexist language, and make superficial judgments in social situations.

I want to speak directly to the audience, to say, 'I'm like you - I'm frustrated, I'm not an expert, I don't have a manual on parenting, I make mistakes, I'm selfish too.'

Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random.

Writing is a demanding profession and a selfish one. And because it is selfish and demanding, because it is compulsive and exacting, I didn't embrace it. I succumbed to it.

To see lonely, selfish, empty individuals transformed slowly but surely into warm, loving, wholesome, and happy people is to become aware of why Paul describes Christ as 'unsearchable riches'.

Anyone who does anything for pleasure to indulge his selfish soul will surely burn in Hell.

What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.

It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish.

We cannot free ourselves from pride and selfish ambition; a divine rescue is absolutely necessary.

But love is something that has to be as selfish as it is unselfish. You can't make yourself love someone because you feel like you should. Just wanting to love someone isn't enough.

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

A player should never be selfish and should always contribute to team's victory.

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor. It's a gift to the world and every being in it. Don't cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you've got.

Selfishness comes from poverty in the heart, from the belief that love is not abundant.

Man is the most dangerous, destructive, selfish, and unethical animal on earth.

A lot of music comes from a selfish place.

One of the worst things sin did for man was to make him selfish, for selfishness cannot love.

So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish, shrewd plodders, full of distrust and sneers.

A man, if he be active and energetic, can hardly fail also, be he never so selfish, of benefiting the general public interest.

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

This is a speculating and selfish age; and to think 'money will answer all things,' is too much the characteristic of Americans.

Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life, shall ever prevail against us.

I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me.

If workers struggle for higher wages, this is hailed as "social gains", if businessmen struggle for higher profits, this is damned as "selfish greed".

Love . . . [is] a lack of personal selfishness.

The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To live a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You know, help others. But that's really the essence of the Christian faith.

Selfishness, not love, is the actuating motive of the gallant.

The idealism of the left is a very selfish idealism. In their war against 'the rich' and big business, they don't care how much collateral damage there is to workers who end up end up unemployed.

Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.

I am very selfish, really. I lived for love.

The education system today makes and educated person selfish. It makes that person a slave to the senses and as a consequence the person forgets their own divine nature.

I am guilty of a dreadful selfish crime. I have robbed myself of all my precious time

The happiest is the man who is not at all selfish.

It seems hopeless, hopeless. Those who eat meat [at public expense] are a mean, selfish lot, and so the country is doomed. Our only hope lies in the grass-roots folk who eat our traditional food.