790 Quotes About Selfish

Love does not dwell on how much one receives in return. If there is ever any balance in love, it is in a contest of who can love who more.

If I make the world a better place for you, I have in turn made it a better place for me. But if I am so selfish that I take it upon myself to reverse the order of that process, I might have reversed the outcome for you, but I will have destroyed the world for me.

People shouldn't have everything they want. No one is entitled to their every desire. To live in balance, we must willingly decide not to take all that we can from the world, and from others.

In the vast majority of cases, what I ‘need’ is actually what I ‘want’ dressed in clever disguise.

One of the greatest evils is the foolishness of a good man. For the giving man to withhold helping someone in order to first assure personal fortification is not selfish, but to elude needless self-destruction; martyrdom is only practical when the thought is to die, else a good man faces the consequence of digging a hole from which he cannot escape, and truly helps no one in the long run.

You can be yourself without pursuing yourself. Have you ever seen a dog chase his own tail? He just runs in circles.

Sometimes the thing that’s chasing me does so most effectively by leading me to believe that I’m chasing it.

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.

No human being has the right to put his own desires in front of the happiness of anyone else.