Quotes on Selfish People

Selfishness is weakness. But loving and caring for others is a position of power beyond anything we can possibly imagine.

Nothing will make me change my principles. Even with the knife at my neck I shall still declare, up to this day, the poor have done everything; it is time for the rich to take their turn... The selfish people, the young idlers, must be made useful, whether they like it or not, and some respite be procured for the useful and respectable worker.

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

Selfish people are in a way terribly capable of great loves.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

The simple recognition that everyone else wants to be happy and not to suffer, just as I do, serves as a constant reminder against selfishness and partiality. It reminds us there is little to be gained from being kind and generous while hoping to win something in return. Actions motivated by a desire to earn a good name for ourselves are still selfish, even if they appear to be acts of kindness.

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

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

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.