All Are Selfish Quotes

#1. Where all are selfish, the sage is no better than the fool, and only rather more dangerous.

James Anthony Froude

#2. What a selfish boy you are. You wished for the world but all you received were the skies.

F.K. Preston

#3. When it comes to misfortune, we are all selfish at heart, offering up the same prayers: not me, not mine. Not yet.

Simon Beckett

#4. There are good points about all ... wars. People forget self. The virtues of magnanimity, courage, patriotism, etc., are called into life. People are more generous, more sympathetic, better, than when engaged in the more selfish pursuits of peace.

Rutherford B. Hayes

#5. As much as it's awful to learn about all the greedy and selfish decisions that some people make, I know there are many more people who have good intentions.

Jayni Chase

#6. It may be a brief interruption - just a few seconds - but what if someone sitting near you is trying to make a decent bootleg? Did you ever think of that? Now all those street-corner copies are permanently defiled by your so-called 'emergency.' Don't be so damn selfish.

Brad Pitt

#7. We are all making a crown for Jesus out of these daily lives of ours, either a crown of golden, divine love, studded with gems of sacrifice and adoration, or a thorny crown, filled with the cruel briars of unbelief, or selfishness, and sin ...

Aimee Semple McPherson

#8. It's simple. Mankind is a sorry excuse for living creatures. They are cruel, cold, merciless, selfish, heartless, wasteful, greedy, and destructive. But the list goes on. I can spend all night telling you what's wrong with them, but why bother?

Charles Lee

#9. I was raised on the brothers Grimm, but my favorite fairy tales in the world are Oscar Wilde's - 'The Nightingale and the Rose,' 'The Selfish Giant.' The latter is probably my all-time favorite.

Denis O'Hare

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

Lord Byron

#11. There is nothing wrong in being selfish provided you know where your self interest are. Once you start meditating regularly you will come to a stage where you will realize that selfish action are those which brings peace and welfare to all and not only for yourself.

Subodh Gupta

#12. All men are selfish, but the vain man is in love with himself. He admires, like the lover his adored one, everything which to others is indifferent.

Berthold Auerbach

#13. My mother said I broke her heart ... but it was my integrity that was important. Is that so selfish? It sells for so little, but it's all we have left in this place. It is the very last inch of us ... but within that inch we are free.

Alan Moore

#14. The awakened sages call a person wise when all his undertakings are free from anxiety about results; all his selfish desires have been consumed in the fire of knowledge.

Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

#15. People are just self-centered-it's all about them. And we're telling people it's okay to be 'all about you' because you're a victim and it's not your fault. That's why society has gotten more and more belligerent and selfish.

Jim Norton

#16. There are some in the church who are very good at presenting the appearance of humility and sacrifice, all for selfish, vainglorious reasons. They enjoy their reputations as servants more than they enjoy the gospel.

Matt Chandler

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

Jack Butler Yeats

#18. But that's depression, isn't it? It makes you selfish. It ... it shrinks your world down. Like you're inside a tornado or something. How are you supposed to care about the things outside that storm? When it's all you can do to just survive it?

Rebecca Rogers Maher

#19. All sensible people are selfish, and nature is tugging at every contract to make the terms of it fair.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#20. The ends you serve that are selfish will take you no further than yourself but the ends you serve that are for all, in common, will take you into eternity.

Marcus Garvey

#21. All too often, those of us who choose to remain childless are accused of being somehow unwomanly or unnatural or selfish, but history teaches us that there have always been women who went through life without having babies.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#22. Only a powerful soul can offer love. Only a powerful soul can afford to be humble. If we are weak, then we become selfish. If we are empty, we take, but if we are filled, we automatically give to all. That is our nature.

Brahma Kumaris

#23. Maybe this was a selfish choice. Someone nobler than me might have given Okiku the final peace she deserves. Someone with less baggage that she would have let him.

But flawed as we are, we are perfect together.

After all, I'm no hero.

Rin Chupeco

#24. Single mothers have as much to teach their children as married mothers and as much love to share
maybe more. Yet their motives are often labeled selfish and single-minded
never mind all the babies brought into the world to snag husbands, "save" faltering marriages or produce heirs.

Anne Cassidy

#25. We all make choices, Cossack. Who we are in this world, what we do in it. Generous or selfish. Happy or sad. Good or evil. It's all down to choice.

Anthony Horowitz

#26. We are all very good at rationalizing our actions so that they are in line with our selfish motives.

Dan Ariely

#27. All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

Pope Paul VI

#28. Since all motives at bottom are selfish and ignoble, we may judge acts and qualities only be their effects.

H.P. Lovecraft

#29. We are all selfish, scared and stupid.

Kieran Flanagan

#30. After all, I don't see why I am always asking for private, individual, selfish miracles when every year there are miracles like white dogwood.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#31. History is not made by great dreams, but by the petty wants of all respectable, moderately thievish and selfish people, that is, of everyone. All our ideas, loves, plans, heroic ideals, all these lofty things are worthless.

Karel Capek

#32. All men are selfish, brutal and inconsiderate
and I wish I could find one.

Shulamith Firestone

#33. Those are who are selfish are rewarded for being nice. Those who truly care about others feel a smile in return is all the reward they need.

Craig Mercier

#34. That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised; but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and the cruel people to the top and it all slides back into misery and ruin.

C.S. Lewis

#35. I think it's really rare to see women on television who are brilliant, selfish, vain, fallible - and I feel like I have all those capacities in myself, so it's good to see people in the media representing all of those things.

Kerry Bishe

#36. Not all the reasons not to have children are the same, either, though. Nor are all those reasons necessarily selfish. I

Elizabeth Gilbert

#37. Money can't change who we are. All it does is magnify our true natures. If you're mean and selfish, you have more to be mean and selfish with. If you're grateful and loving, you have more to appreciate and give.

Anthony Robbins

#38. Eternal Trinity ... mystery deep as the sea, You could give me no greater gift than the gift of Yourself. For You are a fire ever burning and never consumed, which itself consumes all the selfish love that fills my being ...

St. Catherine Of Siena

#39. More or less we are all Selfish. When it's come to Friendship, I do think that fish cant jump onto the ship!

Shah Moazzem

#40. Remember the people you address are selfish, as we all are. They care nothing about your interests or profit. They seek service for themselves

Claude C. Hopkins

#41. Our state is in crisis. Our people are hurting. Now is the time when we all must resist the traditional, selfish call to protect your own turf at the cost of our state. It is time to leave the corner, join the sacrifice, come to the center of the room and be part of the solution.

Chris Christie

#42. How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!

John Muir

#43. The forces are there, we cannot will them away. All we can do is learn to live with them. And we cannot learn this unless we are willing to tell the truth about ourselves, and the truth about us is always at variance with what we wish to be.

Unknown

#44. Arts and disciplines of that kind are fundamentally selfish; they're all designed to benefit the pupil - not the world - "Ishmael

Daniel Quinn

#45. Of all forms of government and society, those of free men and women are in many respects the most brittle. They give the fullest freedom for activities of private persons and groups who often identify their own interests, essentially selfish, with the general welfare.

Dorothy Thompson

#46. Today, our air, food, water-all are polluted. If we do not stop exploiting nature for our temporary selfish gains, we will destroy the world.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#47. All our acts, reasoned and unreasoned, are selfish

Mark Twain

#48. I get very selfish at times. I write about things that are interesting to me. Which are often very different. All of these stories, the thing they have in common is that they were somehow interesting. I feel like they're all dispatches from a worldview.

Wright Thompson

#49. When we start to talk about gurus, we're talking about beings who actually know what this is all about. They know who we were, where we came from, and where we're going. They are not imprisoned in a selfish or self-centered view of the universe.

Krishna Das

#50. I respect all the innocent souls because they are kind enough to forgive the selfish people around them.

Saurabh Sharma

#51. All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it.

David Bowie

#52. Humans are the killers of magic, you see.....People can be cruel, unkind, mean, selfish. We can be a great many dreadful thing, and at one time or another we are all guilty of bad behavior. What we fail to realize is that we are the only ones who can do such things.

Patrick Carman

#53. But grieving people are selfish. They won't let you comfort them and they say you don't understand and they make you feel useless when all your life you've been functional to them.

Melina Marchetta

#54. We're all born with selfish desires, so we can all relate to those feelings in others. But kindness is something made individually by each person ... so it's easy to misunderstand when others are trying to be kind to you.

Natsuki Takaya

#55. You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish.

Anita Brookner

#56. Feel pity for the person who judged you rudely. For they are selfish in their judgment, trying to make their life feel just a little bit better. It was never about you it was all about them.

Ron Baratono

#57. It's probably a pretty safe bet to stay away from anyone who brags about their skills in bed. They are typically only well versed in their own pleasure and who wants a dude like that anyway? No mystery, no class, and almost always: all talk. The Talker is a Regular Guy with a marketing plan.

Roberto Hogue

#58. All of the things that the bible warns you of being: jealous, covetous, murderous, selfish, etc., that's kind of how humans are.

Henry Rollins

#59. To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

Gustave Flaubert

#60. The great mass of human beings are not acutely selfish. After the age of about thirty they abandon individual ambition - in many cases, indeed, they almost abandon the sense of being individuals at all - and live chiefly for others, or are simply smothered under drudgery.

George Orwell

#61. We are all prone to be a little selfish, a little lazy.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#62. Every noble action is selfish. Some selfish actions are nobler than others. But they are all selfish. And as such there can be no action purely noble anyway. Even the nobility in God's great philosophical intentions is bounded by his vanity.

Kedar Joshi

#63. Oh! If those selfish men, who are the cause of all one's misery, only knew what their poor slaves go through! What suffering, what humiliation to the delicate feelings of a poor woman, above all a young one, especially with those nasty doctors.

Queen Victoria