Selfishness Quotes

“That's a true sociopath. I don't believe I am, I believe it was a completely selfish act.”

“It is a vulgar error to suppose that love can be gratified by vanity and selfishness.”

“People who are always taking care of themselves are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy.”

“If you wish to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you, and what people think of you.”

“Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.”

“When we are afraid of ourselves and afraid of the seeming threat the world presents, we become extremely selfish.”

“Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.”

“When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.”

“I killed him because he was very, very, very famous and that's the only reason and I was very, very, very, very much seeking self-glory.”

“Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.”

“A person wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.”

“It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures.”

“Most of us are far more concerned with our own conveniences than we are with the needs of others.”

“Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me?”

“The man who lives for himself is a failure. Even if he gains much wealth, position or power he is still a failure.”

“The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.”

“Self-interest is the enemy of all true affection.”

“That man may last, but never lives, Who much receives, but nothing gives; Whom none can love, whom none can thank,— Creation's blot, creation's blank.”

“Our true passions are selfish.”

“I learned that you can't be a selfish person and have a happy life. You can't.”