149 Quotes About Self-centered

Of course I want a pay-off. However, the pay-off that I want is to be rid of the desire to want a pay-off.

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.

Some people, who always talk about how busy they are, are really trying to claim how 'important' they are.

Tthe problem isn’t that life is unfair – it’s our broken idea of fairness. Meaning, our idea of fairness is self-centered

[M]an places the aim of his action in God, but God has no other aim of action than the moral and eternal salvation of man: thus man has in fact no other aim than himself.

Our century is so shallow, its desires scattered so widely, our knowledge so encyclopedic, that we are absolutely unable to focus our designs on any single object and hence, willy-nilly, we fragment all our works into trivia and charming toys. We have the marvellous gift of making everything insignificant.

Vain people can't bear to be crossed. They are the center of their world, and if circumstances don't allow the world to meet their needs, then the circumstances need to be changed. Their actions appear proportionate to them because any situation where their needs aren't being met is an affront.

Self-centered people often get angry when someone tells them no.Stan said yes out of fear that he would lose love and that other people would get angry at him. These false motives and others keep us from setting boundaries:

The world doesn’t revolve around the Renegades!