Explore 'Selfishness'-Themed Quotes & Sayings

Learn that every flatterer Lives at the flattered listeners cost.

Jean de La Fontaine

Unhappiness is selfish, grief is selfish. For whom are the tears?

Jeanette Winterson

The craziest, most selfish act is to commit suicide. When you kill yourself, you kill others.

Jenny Joseph

Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.

William Jennings Bryan

Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state.

William Law

If you are passionate only about yourself – that is the road to disaster.

William McNamara

Selfishness is the grand moving principle of nine-tenths of our actions.

François de La Rochefoucauld

The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.

François de La Rochefoucauld

What makes vanity so insufferable to us, is that it hurts our own.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Friendship is a traffic wherein self-love always proposes to be the gainer.

François de La Rochefoucauld

When you do something “selflish” you’ll feel constricted and restricted. You won’t be happy.

Frederick Lenz

The more a person indulges himself the less others are willing to indulge him.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In abstract love of humanity one almost always only loves oneself.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The more you make this world about you, the more miserable you will be.

Matt Chandler

If we seek God for our own good and profit, we are not seeking God.

Meister Eckhart

There is no greater dishonesty than man effecting his own private gains at the expense of others.

Leonard Read

We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.

Lord Byron

Selfishness and self-absorption are deadly charm-exterminators.

Loretta Young

I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.

Michel de Montaigne

Who so hath his mind on taking, hath it no more on what he taketh.

Michel de Montaigne

Many who would not take the last cookie would take the last lifeboat.

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Miguel Angel Ruiz

If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you’re gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.

George Carlin

We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves

George Eliot

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