I leave you 75 Selfish phrases From great authors such as Helen Keller, Ayn Rand, Erich Fromm, Paulo Coelho, Martin Luther King and many more.
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1- In an individual, selfishness leaves the soul empty. For the human species, selfishness is extinction.- David Mitchell
2- One of the greatest diseases in the world is selfishness.- Mother Mary Teresa of Calcutta
3 - Nothing seems more closely to selfishness than respect for self.- George Sand
4. As selfishness and complaining pervade the mind, love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.- Helen Keller
5 - Selfishness comes from poverty in the heart, from the belief that love is not abundant.- Don Miguel Ruiz
6 - If all the people in this world were selfish we would not have a world to live. - WL Orme
7- Selfishness is not living as one wants to live, is to ask others to live as one wants to live.-Oscar Wilde
8- No man will work for interests other than his own.- David Seabury
9 - Selfishness is detestable vice, no one forgives in others, but that everyone has.- Henry Ward Beecher
10- If we were not all so overly interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to bear it.- Arthur Schopenhauer
11- I swear, for my life and my love for her, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor do I ask that another man live for my good.- Ayn Rand
12 - Selfish people are unable to fall in love.- F. Scott Fitzgerald
13- They, the selfish, are like the spiritual lame that use other beings like crutches to walk the way of life. And they are the blind of spirit who never find love, because they do not know how to love and they do not know how to let themselves be loved.- Ivan Figueroa Otero
14- The true sage is never selfish.- Ralph Waldo Trine
15- We can not judge the lives of others, since each person knows their own pain. It is one thing to feel that you are on the right path and another very different is to think that yours is the only way.- Paulo Coelho
16 - Our world is drowning in a sea of self-centeredness. You can become unique immediately by leaving this ocean of selfishness and choosing to be curious about other people.- John Bytheway
17- Selfish people are unable to love others, but are not capable of loving themselves.- Erich Fromm
18- The glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.- William Cowper
19- Man is a selfishness mitigated by an indolence.-Fernando Pessoa
20- That man who lives by himself, lives for the most evil mortal known.- Joaquin Miller
21- What are leisure and indolence, but the plastic forms of selfishness? -Nicolás Avellaneda
22. Every man must decide whether to walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive egoism.-Martin Luther King son.
"I have freedom." But freedom means total selfishness. It means that no one cares much what you do.- Lynn Barber
24- It seems to me that certain cruel revelations are a form of selfishness, of being simply at peace with oneself.-Eduardo Mignogna
25- Good character is to recognize the selfishness that is inherent in each one of us and to try to balance it against the altruism to which we all should aspire.- Alan Dershowitz
26. Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen with care.- Richard Bach
27- If you want to take a long trip, travel light. Take off envy, jealousy, loneliness, selfishness and fear.- Cesare Pavese
28- The sun can dispel the darkness of night, but it can not banish the darkness of malice, hatred, intolerance and selfishness of the hearts of mankind.- David O. McKay
29- The twin sister of religion is selfishness.- Percy Bysshe Shelley
30- I have to look for the basis of selfishness: everything I am not can not interest me, it is impossible to be something that is not.- Clarice Lispector
31-Selfishness has deep roots.-Arthur Schopenhauer
32- Courtesy is only a thin layer of varnish on egoism in general.- Honore de Balzac
33- We are all basically made of the same material: generosity and selfishness, kindness and greed.- Madeleine M. Kunin
34- In truth, the first human being is still to be born, devoid of that second skin that we call selfishness.-José Saramago
35- We only feel public evils when they affect our particular interests.-Livy
Generally, selfish people are always very determined about what they want. They do not lose their energies in the consideration of the good of the others.- Ouida
37. Selfishness, a sentence easily surpassed by those who have never tasted their own sacrificial power.- George Eliot
38- Love is the most selfish of all passions.- Alejandro Dumas
39- It seems that there are two options: give up trying to love someone, to stop being selfish or learn to love a person while being selfish.- Lydia Davis
40- Your own interest serves you best not letting yourself be carried by him.-Lao-Tzu
41- Most people are too busy with themselves to be malicious.- Friedrich Nietzsche
42. Each of us is selfish, including myself.- Santosh Kalwar
43- No man is more deceived than the selfish man.- Henry Ward Beecher
44- All war in the world has its origin in the selfish people.- Fulton J. Sheen
45. Selfishness is blind.- Mahatma Gandhi
46- A man is nothing more than the things he does to get what he wants.- Hal Ackerman
47 - Selfishness and greed cause most of our problems.- Harry Truman
Self-pity is pure selfishness. After all, it is egocentrism in its purest form. - Rick Yancey
To be self-sufficient is not to be selfish; it is a necessity. Hurting others or yourself is not selfish because you will never benefit from it; It's stupid.- Elizabeth Cartwright
50. I respect all innocent souls, for they are kind enough to forgive the selfish people around them.- Saurabh Sharma
51- The one who wants in this life all the things to his taste, will have many dislikes in his life.-Francisco de Quevedo
52. I have been a selfish being my whole life, not in theory, but in practice.-Jane Austen
53- A rich life is lived from a kind heart not a selfish mind.- Rasheed Ogunlaru
54. Selfishness is not self-love, but a disordered passion for self.-Aristotle
55. Love at the service of self is covetousness in disguise.- Craig D. Lounsbrough
56- Being jealous is the height of selfishness, it is self-love in default, it is the irritation of a false vanity.-Honoré de Balzac
57. The egoism of humanity has its roots in the self-destructive nature of man by sin.- Felix Wantang
58. Man is an extremely complex creature: he usually acts disinterestedly for selfish reasons.- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
59. The things you do to live a happy life, you should not ruin others.- Mohith Agadi
60- The love for love. Do not wait for anyone to give you a reason to love. That is selfishness. - Debasish Mridha
Sometimes you have to be selfish to be disinterested.- Edward Albert
62. Selfish people are not incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.- Erich Fromm
63. We are selfish when it concerns us exclusively or predominantly the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are concerned exclusively or predominantly with the good of others.-Mortimer Adler
64. Interest has no temples. But it is worshiped by many devotees. »Voltaire
"I believe in aliens. I think it would be too selfish of us as humanity to believe that we are the only life forms in the universe.- Demi Lovato
66- Let's try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.-Richard Dawkins
"Of course, I have friends, a lot of friends, and they all come to borrow money. I have always been generous with my friends and family, with money, but selfish with important things like love.- Richard Pryor
68- A business is a very nice mechanism to solve problems, but never use it for this purpose. We only use it to make money. It satisfies our selfish interest, but not our collective interest.- Muhammad Yunus
69- I think if we want to find happiness by finding a life partner, then it is a little selfish.- Shahid Kapoor
"I think we're living in selfish times. I am the first to say that I am the most selfish.- Javier Bardem
71- I'm selfish, but that's an attribute that all artists have.- Robert Mapplethorpe
72- One of the misfortunes of our country is, as has often been said, that individual interest ignores the collective interest.-Santiago Ramón and Caja
73- All that is done in self-interest is justified.-Oscar Wilde
74- Manifest simplicity, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness and have few desires.- Lao Tzu.