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Below is a compilation of egocentric, egotistical, self-centered, and self-absorbed quotes about selfish people which would make you realize how much people like this only care about themselves.
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145+ Revealing Quotes About Selfish People
1. “Selfishness is blind.” – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
2. “A selfish man is a thief.” – Jose Marti
3. “The ego hates losing – even to God.” – Richard Rohr
4. “One suffers most who is most selfish.” – Taoist Saying
5. “I am in love with myself, with my heart.” – Nirav Sanchaniya
6. “Each one of us is selfish, including me.” – Santosh Kalwar
7. “I am a beast until I love as God doth love.” – George MacDonald
8. “No one is disgusted with his own bad smell.” – John Taylor Wood
9. “A selfish life isn’t God’s purpose for you.” – Sunday Adelaja
10. “People don’t want other people to be people.” – Gene Wolfe
11. “No man is more cheated than the selfish man.” – Henry Ward Beecher
12. “Love is the most selfish of all the passions.” – Alexandre Dumas
13. “A thief’s thoughts are focused on the bundle.” – Bengali Proverb
14. “The selfish heart deserves the pain it feels.” – Edward Young
15. “‘Chill’ is a selfishness disguised as kindness.” – Priya Parker
16. “In a self-centered world, be the centered self.” – Cristie B Gardner
17. “Man seeks his own good at the whole world’s cost.” – Robert Browning
18. “Servitude is sanctitude, selfishness is destitute.” – Abhijit Naskar
19. “To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.” – Albert Camus
20. “A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.” – Unknown
21. “He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.” – Benjamin Franklin
22. “Through vulnerability, I realize life’s immense beauty.” – Efrat Cybulkiewicz
23. “Every lie begins with the phrase, ‘Because I’m selfish.” – Ken Poirot
24. “Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.” – William Cowper
25. “The tide seldom shifts in favor of a selfish individual.” – Carlos Wallace
26. “No man will work for your interests unless they are his.” – David Seabury
27. “In life, there are always two choices; the selfish and the selfless.” – Wayne Gerard Trotman
28. “The way to selflessness is through absolute selfishness.” – Laiba Jalil
29. “You are too full of your own hopes to hold anyone else’s.” – Joe Abercrombie
30. “The more selfish you are, the more involved life becomes.” – Thomas Merton
31. “Give me the luxuries, and anyone can have the necessaries.” – Oscar Wilde
32. “If we don’t give back to the society, we’ll die of obesity.” – Abhijit Naskar
33. “Selfish people are in a way terribly capable of great loves.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
34. “The sun shines, not out of affection, but out of compulsion.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
35. “Every relationship is, to each party, ultimately about them.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
36. “Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect.” – George Sand
37. “Just two choices on the shelf, pleasing God or pleasing self.” – Ken Collier
38. “He knew that beauty faded quickly when embodied by selfishness…” – Francine Rivers
39. “Greed is an addiction. It’s a machine that must constantly be fed.” – D.J. MacHale
40. “A man is nothing more than the things he does to get what he wants.” – Hal Ackerman
41. “Suppose you were the last one left? Suppose you did that to yourself?” – Cormac McCarthy
42. “Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
43. “That man who lives for self alone, lives for the meanest mortal known.” – Joaquin Miller
44. “Teamwork: I love the idea of all for one – especially if that one is me.” – Jarod Kintz
45. “In every class of society, gratitude is the rarest of all human virtues.” – Wilkie Collins
46. “Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.” – Harry S. Truman
47. “We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.” – Booker T. Washington
48. “Self-pity is egotism undiluted, after all—self-centeredness in its purest form.” – Rick Yancey
49. “Tears of our own appears like blood, but tears of unknown feels like just water.” – Amit Kalantri
50. “When you have wit of your own, it’s a pleasure to credit other people for theirs.” – Criss Jami
51. “Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.” – Jane Austen
52. “Some see it as selfishness or fussiness, nonetheless, it is less of a mess I guess.” – Alain Bremond-Torrent
53. “Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.” – Lao Tzu
54. “That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone.” – Thomas Jefferson
55. “When someone drops his authority for you, you should at least drop your ego for him.” – Amit Kalantri
56. “Perhaps one should not think so much of oneself, though it is an interesting subject.” – Norman Douglas
57. “We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and thinks too much to be beautiful.” – Oscar Wilde
58. “Selfishness comes from poverty in the heart, from the belief that love is not abundant.” – Don Miguel Ruiz
59. “You shouldn’t live for yourself alone but you must also learn to live the Christian life.” – Sunday Adelaja
60. “One of the most selfish things you can do to someone you love is make them your happiness.” – Lidia Longorio
61. “Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.” – Richard Bach
62. “Egoism: measuring others by our likes and dislikes-not by their needs but by our preferences.” – A.R. Orage
63. “One of the Devil’s great lies is that the path to a fulfilling life is to live for one’s self.” – Andrew B. Ray
64. “I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment.” – John Fowles
65. “Selfish – a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice.” – George Eliot
66. “In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.” – David Mitchell
67. “God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself.” – Criss Jami
68. “As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.” – Helen Keller
69. “Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.” – Oscar Wilde
70. “There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.” – Oscar Wilde
71. “Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.” – Erich Fromm
72. “In Mojave, our words for want and need are the same – because why would you want what you don’t need?” – Natalie Diaz
73. “All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
74. “Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.” – Henry Ward Beecher
75. “If there is one thing I dislike, it is the man who tries to air his grievances when I wish to air mine.” – P.G. Wodehouse
76. “I respect all the innocent souls because they are kind enough to forgive the selfish people around them.” – Saurabh Sharma
77. “Relinquishing selfish wants, one is free to allow others to travel their own paths under the will of God.” – Prem Prakash
78. “A true generous heart can never revolve majorly with monetary skills nor business acumen nor cunning mind.” – Angelica Hopes
79. “A deed is at bottom an attempt to grab or hold on to pleasure, or to make pain miss or let go of the doer.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
80. “Better not to plant seeds of selfishness than try to eradicate them once they have grown into giant weeds.” – Prem Prakash
81. “A person is called selfish, not for pursuing his or her own good, but for neglecting his or her neighbor’s.” – Richard Whatly
82. “The spirit of arrogance most definitely makes you shine. It paints a bright red target on your own forehead.” – Criss Jami
83. “The generation that destroys the environment is not the generation that pays the price. That is the problem.” – Wangari Maathai
84. “The only truly friendless people are those who are too well off to need help, but too selfish to provide any.” – Christian Neville Bovee
85. “We are to give (and take) true love without falling into the narcissistic habit of only trying to take it in.” – Criss Jami
86. “I am always thinking about myself, and I expect everybody else to do the same. That is what is called sympathy.” – Oscar Wilde
87. “In the matters of your mistake you defend it like a lawyer, in the matters of other’s mistake you act like a judge.” – Amit Kalantri
88. “Envy and greed always-always-exact a terrible price. I have never met an envious or greedy person who was at peace.” – Billy Graham
89. “Selfish prosperity makes a man a vortex rather than a fountain; instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in.” – Henry Ward Beecher
90. “It’s a shame that we humans are never able to pull in the same direction . . . [n]ot even when confronted by infinity.” – Gentry Lee
91. “Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.” – Ayn Rand
92. “The unkindest thing you can do to a human is to tarnish their reputation in front of others just to make yourself look good.” – Sijdah Hussain
93. “Selfish people also tend to have victim mindsets… Their actions plant seeds of loneliness; then they cry upon the blooming. ” – Steve Maraboli
94. “To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less…selfish.” – Alan Bennett
95. “Whoever is unable to stop thinking about himself for a while will never enjoy a work of art, let alone be able to create one.” – Heinrich Wölfflin
96. “Three things I have longed to see,” murmured Miss Cynthia, pointedly. “The sea serpent, a white rhinoceros, and an unselfish man.” – Myrtle Reed
97. “It’s not my job to make you happy. It’s your job to learn that only those who quit selfishly seeking their own happiness find it.” – Richelle E. Goodrich
98. “If the entire world sought to make itself worthy of happiness rather than make itself happy, then the entire world would be happy.” – Criss Jami
99. “He had the blue kite in his hands; that was the first thing I saw. And I can’t lie now and say my eyes didn’t scan it for any rips.” – Khaled Hosseini
100. “True prayer lies not in asking for a violation of natural law but in the acceptance of natural law as the unchangeable will of God.” – Voltaire
101. “If we were not all so excessively interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
102. “Nothing, absolutely nothing, happens ’till parents stop clenching their fists around precious things and people, let go, & trust God!” – Gary F. Patton
103. “Like philanthropy, charity is the deceptive art of making others happy, or less unhappy, in order to make yourself happy, or happier.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
104. “She also understood there was a hole in her heart where her son should be, that she was a wicked, selfish woman for wishing him back.” – Shannon Celebi
105. “The rich are seldom remarkable for modesty, ingenuity, or humanity. Their wealth has rather a tendency to make them penurious and selfish.” – John Adams
106. “Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.” – Ouida, Wanda, Countess von Szalras. P.G. Wodehouse
107. “A selfless act out of even the purest desire to do for others, will be selfish in the satisfaction and happiness it brings to one doing it.” – Ashly Lorenzana
108. “But selfish isn’t necessarily a bad thing. It only means you take care of yourself and you have to do that to be able to take care of others.” – Tera Lynn Childs
109. “We all of us need to be toppled off the throne of self, my dear,” he said. “Perched up there the tears of others are never upon our own cheek.” – Elizabeth Goudge
110. “Just because you have stolen someone’s heart, luckily owned and occupied as a home, doesn’t give you the audacity to enforce hurtful policies.” – Michael Bassey Johnson
111. “Selfish people lost so much in life, because even when they realize they are wrong, they don’t know how to ask for forgiveness or show regrets.” – Unknown
112. “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 in ourselves.” – Stephen Kendrick
113. “We sometimes give someone something they need, with the subconscious hope that that will increase the chances of life-giving us something we want.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
114. “Some of us were brought into this troubled world primarily or only to increase our fathers’ chances of not being left by our mothers, or vice versa.” – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
115. “I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US that thinks Americans are not yet selfish enough.” – Christopher Hitchens
116. “A society where emotions come last and selfishness is considered blessed, or placed first before anything; cannot be expected to produce good fruits!” – Mwanandeke Kindembo
117. “There seemed to be three choices: to give up trying to love anyone, to stop being selfish, or to learn to love a person while continuing to be selfish.” – Lydia Davis
118. “Being self-sufficient is not selfish; it is a need. Harming others or yourself is not selfish because it will never benefit the self; it is just stupid.” – Elizabeth Cartwright
119. “Attachment is not the cause of our suffering, our selfishness is. Once you find freedom in giving, attachment will become your strength and not weakness.” – Abhijit Naskar
120. “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
121. “We must oppose the tendency towards selfish departmentalism by which the interests of one’s own unit are looked after to the exclusion of those of others.” – Mao Tsetung
122. “Day and night we’ll stand tall in service, Through storm, rain, heat and gloom. There’s no time for selfishness, Being selfish would bring universal doom.” – Abhijit Naskar
123. “‘Sure you are. You love everything for as long as it’s easy then as soon as you have to actually empathise with another human being you get claustrophobic.’ ” – Exurb1a
124. “Wars come from egotism and selfishness. Every macrocosmic or world war has its origin in microcosmic wars going on inside millions and millions of individuals.” – Fulton J. Sheen
125. “If all the people in this world, in which we live, were as selfish as a few of the people in this world, in which we live, there would be no world in which to live.” – W. L. Orme
126. “I am thankful that there are those among us who have sacrificed dearly on behalf of us. And I ardently pray to God that I might be less like myself and more like them.” – Craig D. Lounsbrough
127. “It all depends on what people you’re talking about helping. That’s the wonderful think about just about every religion on the planet – they’re all so incredibly selfish.” – Derek Landy
128. “I spend my life constantly calling in ‘imaginary’ debts that aren’t owed to me in order to avoid the ‘real’ debts that I owe to others, and so everybody ends up bankrupt.” – Craig D. Lounsbrough
129. “Selfish man, who does not want to be selfish – that aspiration for something better, is of God. Worldly man, conscious of spiritual things – that consciousness is of God.” – Henry Ward Beecher
130. “This world. This human race. It isn’t divided into sexes. Everybody thinks it’s divided into sexes but it isn’t. It’s the givers and the takers, the diners and the dinners.” – Amy Witting
131. “The subsistence mentality of a person is a prison in which his personal joy is detained. If you want to live in joy, you don’t live for yourself alone. Live for others too!” – Israelmore Ayivor
132. “Man is not, by nature, deserving of all that he wants. When we think that we are automatically entitled to something, that is when we start walking all over others to get it.” – Criss Jami
133. “Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. Oscar WildeI say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky
134. “The world order was changing and what was truly new, here and there… was that the people in power were self-servers who’d no idea about and felt no responsibility towards history.” – Ali Smith
135. “I constantly pack my pockets full of worthless trinkets, and in such misguided gorging I leave my heart empty and my soul emaciated because I have forgotten everything but trinkets.” – Craig D. Lounsbrough
136. “There is very little deliberate wickedness in the world. The stupidity of our selfishness gives much the same results indeed, but in the ethical laboratory it shows a different nature.” – H.G. Wells
137. “Selfishness and self-defence are the two things present in a person’s DNA, but cooperation and a bit of sacrifice are necessary for his survival, it gives special kind of satisfaction.” – Sagar Wazarkar
138. “Any sense of privilege that we have to possess something seems to vanish once we are actually able to possess it. Therefore, in how many cases would it better ‘not’ to possess something?” – Craig D. Lounsbrough
139. ” [G]iving yourself some loving attention is not selfish. It is sensible. If you feel loved and cherished–even if it is only by yourself–then you will have more love to give to others, too.” – Penelope Quest
140. “Man is a rebel, and a rebel is naturally in confusion. He is in conflict with every other rebel. For a rebel by his very nature is selfish. He is seeking his own good and not the good of others.” – Billy Graham
141. “Selfish men may possess the earth, but it is the meed who inherit it, and enjoy it as an inheritance from their heavenly Father, free from all the defilements and perplexities of unrighteousness.” – John Woolman
142. “From the beginning of time until the present moment, man’s ungodly quest for power, his determination to use his gift of free choice for his own selfish ends, has brought him to the brink of doom.” – Billy Graham
143. “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 of others in this world, and that mechanism is called suffering.” – William Nicholson
144. “It is the ignorant person who seeks his or her own ends at the expense of the greater whole. It is the ignorant person, therefore, who is the selfish person. The truly wise person is never selfish.” – Ralph Waldo Trine
145. “Nobody knows you as well as our spouse. And that means no one will be quicker to recognize a change when you deliberately start sacrificing your wants and wishes to make sure his or her needs are met.” – Stephen Kendrick