Top 100 Quotes About Self Centered
#1. The proud aren't truly seeking the way of Christ because their vision is filled with the self-centered movie playing on the IMAX screen of their darkened hearts.
Matt Chandler
#2. There are more pompous, arrogant, self-centered, mediocre-type people running corporate America who should be sent out on some postal route delivering mail.
Joe Jamail
#3. Racism springs from the lie that certain human beings are less than fully human. It's a self-centered falsehood that corrupts our minds into believing we are right to treat others as we would not want to be treated.
Alveda King
#4. Our current societal construct demonstrates we are uncaring and largely self-centered beings driven only by our own needs
Bryant McGill
#5. Careerism: the self-centered philosophy of governing to win the next election above all else.
Tom Coburn
#6. I do not belong to anyone! Certainly not to a self-centered, brute of man, err ... being or whatever it is you are, person! she fumbled.
Madison Thorne Grey
#7. 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
#8. People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.
Kent M. Keith
#9. My uncomfortable duty as a Christian is to confess the truth, so lethal to our self-centered human nature: 'Jesus, who suffered your sin unto his own death, calls you likewise to forgive, so that God's purposes may be accomplished in both you and your offender.
Gordon Dalbey
#10. If you run for mayor, people say you're being egotistical. If you decide you won't run for mayor, people say you're being self-centered and egotistical.
Matt Gonzalez
#11. Look, I could go on and on and on telling you why I hate myself, but it's so self-centered ... and I'm not like that. I'm a giver. So I'd rather branch out and start giving it to everyone else.
Joan Rivers
#12. It took cancer to realize that being self-centered is not the way to live. The answer is to try and help others.
Terry Fox
#13. I don't want to read more into it than there is. I try not to overanalyze anymore, as it tends to make me self-centered. If there is a deeper message in what happened in the last year and a half, I'm not going to look under every rock for it. Just let God be God.
Wayne Watson
#14. if you provide everything your child needs whenever he throws a tantrum, at the expense of others, he will turn out to be self-centered and overbearing.
Tyson Caro
#15. Our flesh takes over when we decide to be self-centered instead of self-sacrificing. Then there is Satan. God
Stormie O'martian
#16. It is an incredibly difficult task to lead people from self-centered consumerism to being servant-hearted Christians. It is not a task for fainthearted ministers or those who don't like to get their religious robes wrinkled. But it is what the Great Commission is all about
Rick Warren
#17. Reality TV is the perfect antidote to people who don't have enough self-centered douchebags in their life.
Dana Gould
#18. Writers seldom choose as friends those self-centered characters who are never in trouble, never make mistakes, and always count their change as it is handed to them.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
#20. Again, as egotistical as I am, as self-centered as I am, and as much as I love strangers idolizing me, I find it very crass to be self-promoter in a way.
John Larroquette
#21. People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.
Mother Teresa
#22. The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.
Thornton Wilder
#23. Dan Coats, retiring senator from Indiana, a mild-mannered man, a former United States ambassador to Germany, former congressman, said of Ted Cruz he's the most self-centered, narcissistic, pathological liar I have ever seen.And he said, you can quote me on that.
Mark Shields
#24. Few find inner peace but this is not because they try and fail, it is because they do not try ... When your life is governed by the divine nature instead of the self-centered nature you have found inner peace.
Peace Pilgrim
#25. 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
#26. Could it be that those who were reared in the postwar years really were spoiled, as we used to hear? Did a child-centered generation, raised in depression and war, produce a self-centered generation that resents children and parenthood?
C. Sommerville
#27. Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.
Dalai Lama
#28. No behaviour on our part is more self-centered than the demand to speak and the refusal to listen.
Robert E. Fisher
#29. If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we're going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it's our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it's because we're focused on ourselves!
Joyce Meyer
#30. I am for the animals, I couldn't care less about your need to eat animals, wear them, shoot them or exploit them. Too bad if you consider it suffering to let all that self-centered and traditional bullshit stop you from having the will to help the animals..
Rikki Rockett
#31. As artists, it's tempting to forget the audience's needs. Too often, we're self-centered and self-indulgent in what we share with the world. We're prideful, only showing what we deem as perfect or what we think our peers will respect.
Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick
#32. I happen to be immature, undisciplined, and self-centered, pretty much a little boy in a man's body, although I'd appreciate it if you didn't quote me on that.
-Bobby Tom
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#33. When I read the Bible, I see that we should have victory in our life and be overcomers, and I can't even control my temper. I'm impatient. I'm hard to get along with. I'm selfish and self-centered, and I don't seem to have any control over it.
Joyce Meyer
#34. As for my ideal type, I like girls who don't have powerful presence, and not self-centered. I'd like her to have a light skin, and a calm personality.
Yesung
#35. Bowing helps to eliminate our self-centered ideas. This is not so easy. It is difficult to get rid of these ideas, and bowing is a very valuable practice. The result is not the point; it is the effort to improve ourselves that is valuable. There is no end to this practice.
Shunryu Suzuki
#36. Being a dick is when you're so self-centered, you think your ideas are pretty much the only worthy ones, and you secretly believe other people are inferior to you. [ ... ] You'd rather believe other people just can't handle how awesome you are. And you're right. All that awesomeness sucks, actually.
Tracy McMillan
#37. Trying to destroy yourself gives a pretty clear message and it's not one I think you'd like. Sounds a bit like, I'm too self-centered to be constructive, so I have to open a vein ...
Thomm Quackenbush
#38. Architects are mostly self-centered and their buildings express their ego. [They are] not social buildings to make it more comfortable for people - to make life better for people. The cities have to be designed so people can get together and talk with one another.
Jacque Fresco
#39. Obama's foreign policy is strangely self-centered, focused on himself and the United States rather than on the conduct and needs of the nations the United States allies with, engages with, or must confront.
Elliott Abrams
#40. Bums panhandled instead of getting a job. People dropped their trash on the sidewalk or tossed it from their car windows. All these actions said the same thing: my shit is more important than yours. The world was a self-centered place and he hated it for it.
Simon Wood
#41. It suits my own attitude toward the world and its people to believe that the Raven is this completely self-centered, uninvolved bringer of change, through inadvertence and accident, and so on ... It's a version of the Raven myth for today, not for the time when it was created.
Bill Reid
#42. People have found inner peace by losing themselves in a cause larger than themselves. Finding inner peace means coming from the self-centered life into the life centered.
Peace Pilgrim
#43. I'm self-centered, inconsiderate, and what was the third adjective? Oh, yes, and I have this infantile fantasy that one day I'll amount to something as an actress.
Jay Presson Allen
#44. The sense of an entailed disadvantage - the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active spiritual yeast, and easily turns a self-centered, unloving nature into an Ishmaelite.
George Eliot
#45. Part of not being a self-centered asshole, Colin reasoned, is doing things with your friends even when you don't want to.
John Green
#46. Maybe I'm a little callous, a little insensitive, a little self-centered, but hey, that's how I roll.
Lindy Zart
#47. We see ourselves as self-sufficient, self-important, and self-sustaining. God sees us as dependent, self-centered, and self-deceived.
Billy Graham
#48. All that we see is but the reflex of a power that endures, untouched by the pain ... a transcendent anonymity regarding itself in all of the self-centered, battling egos that are born and die in time.
Joseph Campbell
#49. There is a big difference between being centered and being self-centered
Lolly Daskal
#50. She was gifted at charm. I never valued that in her before, but I felt like kissing her hand now. I should write to Eric and thank him for being a self-centered idiot.
Kristan Higgins
#51. Self-hatred and self-love are equally self-centered.
Mason Cooley
#52. We have become so self-centered that we go to God only for something from Him, and not for God Himself.
Oswald Chambers
#53. Missing someone, they say, is self-centered.
I self-center you more than ever.
Sasa Stanisic
#54. I've changed, I'm nice to people and I'm not so self-centered. What I'm trying to do now is think of the other person. The only trouble is, I've found that the other person thinks only of himself.
Oscar Levant
#55. Hell needed horribly bright, self-centered people like Eric. They were much better at being nasty than demons could ever manage
Terry Pratchett
#56. Merridale was as self-centered as a Broadway star on opening night.
Chet Williamson
#57. A compassionate attitude opens our inner door, and as a result it is much easier to communicate with others. If there is too much self-centered attitude, then fear, doubt and suspicion come and as a result our inner door closes. Then it is very difficult to communicate with others.
Dalai Lama
#58. Don't ask for a cig' - I'm so self-centered, I won't even share this cancer.
Joe Budden
#59. If you do everything as if it were the last thing you were doing in your life, and stop being aimless, stop letting your emotions override what your mind tells you, stop being hypocritical, self-centered, irritable.
Marcus Aurelius
#60. A new way of thinking has become the necessary condition for responsible living and acting. If we maintain obsolete values and beliefs, a fragmented consciousness and self-centered spirit, we will continue to hold onto outdated goals and behaviors.
Dalai Lama
#61. Why are young adults so self-centered and always seeking instant gratification? Because older adults, often in positions of power, paint them that way.
Raymond Arroyo
#62. My wheelchair was the key to seeing all this happen - especially since God's power always shows up best in weakness. So here I sit ... glad that I have not been healed on the outside, but glad that I have been healed on the inside. Healed from my own self-centered wants and wishes.
Joni Eareckson Tada
#63. To be happy is easy enough if we give ourselves, forgive others, and live with thanksgiving, No self centered person, no ungrateful soul can ever be happy, much less make anyone else happy. Life is giving, not getting.
Joseph Fort Newton
#64. We've had a major shift in what truth is and where it comes from. We've gone from being God-centered to self-centered, from being objective to being subjective, and from being internal to external.
Josh McDowell
#65. Only a person who is congenitally self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays.
E.B. White
#66. Everyone lives a self-centered life ... whether its trivial like what's for breakfast, or more ambitious, like achieving some lofty goal, a person is constantly on her own mind.
T.M. Goeglein
#67. How self-centered, how arrogant ... Imagine the awesome privilege of living in a society where you get to choose what you eat at each and every meal. When I was a kid, I was a vegetarian and a vegan for long stretches ... I was a commodity cheese-atarian.
Sherman Alexie
#68. Are you a slave to your self-centered nature or does your divine nature guide your life? Do you kow that every moment of your life you're creating through thought? You create your own inner condition; you're helping create the conditions around you.
Peace Pilgrim
#69. Half the time he seems self-centered, the other half it's like he lives solely for Ben.
Jay Bell
#70. It is sad when people only use their connections & resources for themselves. How very self-centered. Use your platform to help others.
Karen E. Quinones Miller
#71. The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea.
John Templeton
#72. Remember that self-doubt is as self-centered as self-inflation. Your obligation is to reach as deeply as you can and offer your unique and authentic gifts as bravely and beautifully as you're able.
Bill Plotkin
#74. Self-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit.
John C. Maxwell
#75. Yes ... That's what it was to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those ... about you. To spend and waste time as though you had a million years. To be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion or another.
Linda Dillow
#76. Trading the markets is a totally self-centered activity. Nobody's life gets better because you trade. Except your broker's life.
Robert Rolih
#77. Simply put, self-centered and egocentric people don't
inspire others. We are inspired by people who place
others-- other people, other ideas, other goals-- above
themselves.
Del Suggs
#78. It is only by frequent deaths of ourselves and our self-centered desires that we can come to live more fully.
Mother Teresa
#79. Stan Ulam was lazy, ... He talked too much ... He was self-centered ... He had an overpowering personality.
Gian-Carlo Rota
#80. This is what a self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends.
John Irving
#81. Far from applying the teachings of their religion in our personal lives, we have a tendency to use them to reinforce our self-centered attitudes. We relate to our religion as something we own or as a label that separates us from others. Surely this is misguided?
Dalai Lama XIV
#82. It's good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people.
Hugh Hefner
#83. Body tension will always be present if our good feeing is just ordinary, self-centered happiness. Joy has no tension in it, because joy accepts whatever is as it is.
Charlotte Joko Beck
#84. When outsiders criticize Americans, they regularly note that we seem self-centered, which we are. But few contend we are selfish, and with good reason; we are not.
Harry Beckwith
#85. They don't think "I care," "I hurt," or "I have feelings." It just seems like I'm always "wrong," always "selfish," always "self-centered" and everything else that's negative and destructive.
Beatrice Sparks
#86. We live in a culture where people are self-centered and careerist and everybody seems to think they have too much on their plate or they just don't have time for other people's pain.
Marc Maron
#87. Our prayers may be an index of how small and self-centered our world is.
D. A. Carson
#88. I believe in giving kindness, regardless of how unreasonable and self-centered a person is. Kindness is a gift of sanctity for a person. It has the goal of making the soul smile.
Lionel Suggs
#89. Sometimes I wonder if there is really goodwill in the world to worry about saving human beings, or whether we are just using that as camouflage for our own interests, the self-centered drive for more profits.
Enele Sopoaga
#90. This is not a matter of virtue-it's a matter of my choosing to do the work of somehow altering or getting free of my natural, hard-wired default-setting, which is to be deeply and literally self-centered, and to see and interpret everything through this lens of self.
David Foster Wallace
#91. Too many people think only of their own profit. But business opportunity seldom knocks on the door of self-centered people. No customer ever goes to a store merely to please the storekeeper.
Kazuo Inamori
#92. My father grew up in an era when to be an American - a white American, at least - was to be yourself. In some respects, his generation was more ignorant, complacent, self-centered and parochial than mine.
William T. Vollmann
#93. Anger met with anger only increases enmity rather than diffusing a tense situation. Anger, in turn, gives birth to hate. In such cases the wisest thing to do is not to engage through emotion. Emotions are self-centered and denying them spares animosity.
Donna Lynn Hope
#94. I like kindness. Who doesn't? Life is definitely too short for self-centered, abusive people.
Ellen Greene
#96. When can our brain's innate objectivity begin to flourish? Only when our inappropriate Self-centered subjectivity begins to dissolve.
James H. Austin
#97. As it almost always was when I'd been too self-centered to see the truth of the matter, I felt impossibly foolish.
Jaida Jones
#98. If I were a lesbian and had a thing for narcissistic ex-sorority girls? I'd totally do me.
Bitter is the New Black: Confessions of a Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smart-Ass, or Why You Should Never Carry a Prada Bag to the Unemployment Office: A Memoir
Jen Lancaster
#99. People are self-centered to a nauseous degree. They will keep on about themselves while I'm explaining me.
Piet Pieterszoon Hein
#100. Reading in bed is a self-centered act, immobile, free from ordinary social conventions, invisible to the world, and one that, because it takes place between the sheets, in the realm of lust and sinful idleness, has something of the thrill of things forbidden.
Alberto Manguel
