820 Quotes About Selfishness

The process of becoming selfless starts with selfishness

If it has anything to do with me, it has nothing to do with sacrifice.

Only the strong can live alone, the strong and the selfish.

It is a healthy approach not to expect persons to turn out precisely how you would have wished.

At the time, however, I didn't realize the extent of my granddaughter's sensitivity - or her loneliness. I thought only of myself. Of my own sensitivity and my own loneliness.

A rich life is lived from a giving heart not a selfish mind.

Ambition distorts even memory itself. John Quincy Adams

In a self-focused world, we place ourselves at the center of our own personal universe. We are in control, at least that’s what we think. We are the central character, the protagonist of the story, and the rest of the world is just our contextual stage, built to serve our uniquely complex purpose. But we fail to realize everyone else enjoys relationships just as deep, dreams just as real, a purpose just as driving, and complexities just as beautiful as our own.

The shortest short-term investment is to serve ourselves.