It is the ignorant person, therefore, who is the selfish person. The truly wise person is never selfish. A person is called selfish, not for pursuing his or her own good, but for neglecting his or her neighbor’s. Selfish people are, by definition, those whose activities are devoted to bringing themselves happiness.
- What are selfish people but ones who use the weakness of others for their own pleasure?
- There are people who are so original that they become selfish and use those ideas for profit.
- It is sad that most of the people who have great ideas are so selfish and uses them for benefit.
- I would not be great to sacrifice too much of yourself as you will then be left with nothing.
- No one would ever give all of themselves to you, no one will really care enough like that.
- Nowadays, even love is selfish; there is so much selfishness that surrounds the planet we have.
- Because selfish people only think of their own sake, the result of what they do is negative.
- A great person is that who have let go of his selfishness and wants to help other people too.
- Love is always beneficial to a person as well as compassion as long as selfishness is omitted.
- Just because you care about yourself means you are selfish, it is by not caring of others that you become a selfish person that only cares for yourself and no one else.
- The real measure of selfishness is by asking a person how much he is willing to sacrifice.
- Most of the time, we love the selfish people, you even give them all that you have, everything.
- Even by just showing you care, you can stop being selfish, you need to become giving, kind.
- Be kind enough to everyone that no one would ever doubt you to be selfish even if you are.
- When you stop thinking of the benefit of other people, that is the moment you become selfish.
- Go on and waste some energy for someone else tonight, go out there and just do it all, okay?
- There is nothing born out of selfishness, you just have to give the best you can in everything.
- There is nothing wrong in giving without expecting anything in return, that is the beauty of it.
- Stop being that selfish person that you are and might as well learn to give things to others.
- The moment you stop thinking of only yourself is the moment you stop being a selfish person.
- To have a great achievement, one must learn to sacrifice a lot more than he needs to do so.
- Share your blessings to other people and learn that no one in this world can be better.
- The best things in life must be shared between people so that selfishness is never ever born.
- You have to fight for what you want but remember to do all of this for other’s benefit.
- Stop doing things just for your own benefit and start living a better and brighter life today.
- When a person is in love, he becomes less selfish than he was because he wants to give.
- What is the point of being selfish when all you really need to do is to keep giving yourself.
- Love makes people less selfish, it makes them give away all that they have with them, all of it.
- What is selfishness but asking others to live the way you would want them to, instead of theirs.
Quotes About Selfish People
It is the ignorant person, therefore, who is the selfish person. The truly wise person is never selfish. A person is called selfish, not for pursuing his or her own good, but for neglecting his or her neighbor’s. Selfish people are, by definition, those whose activities are devoted to bringing themselves happiness.
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
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.
Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.
Foolish, selfish people are always thinking of themselves and the result is always negative. Wise persons think of others, helping them as much as they can, and the result is happiness. Love and compassion are beneficial both for you and others. Through your kindness to others, your mind and heart will open to peace.
Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.
Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.
It’s usually the selfish people who are loved the most. They do what you deny yourself, and you love them for it. You give them your heart.
There’s no doubt about it: fun people are fun. But I finally learned that there is something more important, in the people you know, than whether they are fun. Thinking about those friends who had given me so much pleasure but who had also caused me so much pain, thinking about that bright, cruel world to which they’d introduced me, I saw that there’s a better way to value people. Not as fun or not fun, or stylish or not stylish, but as warm or cold, generous or selfish. People who think about others and people who don’t. People who know how to listen, and people who only know how to talk.
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.
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
So, let us, you and I, for the sake of our brother man, individually strive by example and influence to lift the standard of thought and conduct from the low level of selfishness and self-indulgence up to the lofty realms of aspirational thought and self-denial.
God’s Word teaches a very hard, disturbing truth. Those who neglect the poor and the oppressed are really not God’s people at all—no matter how frequently they practice their religious rituals nor how orthodox are their creeds and confessions.
