1. “It is impossible to be both selfish and happy.” ~ Joyce Meyer
2. “Some people are selfish in all of their relationships. Those people are called sociopaths.” ~ Adam Grant
3. “Selfish people are in a way terribly capable of great loves.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
4. “Teamwork: I love the idea of all for one — especially if that one is me.” ~ Jarod Kintz
5. “A selfish man is a thief.” ~ Jose Marti
6. “Selfishness comes from poverty in the heart, from the belief that love is not abundant.” ~ Don Miguel Ruiz
7. “Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.” ~ Jane Austen
8. “That man who lives for self alone lives for the meanest mortal known.” ~ Joaquin Miller
9. “They, the selfish ones, are like spiritual lame people who use other beings as crutches to walk on the path of life. And they are the Blind of Spirit who never find Love, because they do not know how to love and do not let themselves be loved.” ~ Ivan Figueroa Otero
10. “Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.” ~ Erich Fromm
11. “As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.” ~ Helen Keller
12. “We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It’s one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it’s another to think that yours is the only path.” ~ Paulo Coelho
13. “Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.” ~ Ayn Rand
14. “You can’t expect to have a deep relationship with a shallow person.” ~ Doe Zantamata
15. “Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.” ~ Oscar Wilde
16. “Jealousy is a passion typical to selfish people.” ~ Vissarion Belinsky
17. “It’s hard to get people to overcome the thought that they have to take care of themselves first. It’s hard to get players to give in to the group and become selfless as opposed to selfish.” ~ Isaiah Thomas
18. “Being selfish to me means that you have to look out for yourself and you don’t have to sacrifice.” ~ Herbie Mann
19. “He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
20. “That man who lives for self alone, lives for the meanest mortal known.” ~ Joaquin Miller
21. “Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect.” ~ George Sand
22. “Selfishness keeps man blind through life.” ~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
23. “Selfishness must always be forgiven you know because there is no hope of a cure.” ~ Jane Austin
24. “Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.” ~ Henry Ward Beecher
25. “Charity does not like arithmetic; selfishness worships it.” ~ Mason Cooley
26. “Selfish people are, by definition, those whose activities are devoted to bringing themselves happiness. Yet. . . these selfish people are far less likely to be happy than those whose efforts are devoted to making others happy.” ~ Bernard Rimland
27. “There are many selfish people who are extremely original, then they take those pure ideas and use them to raise themselves up, that is an insincere move.” ~ Daniel Smith
28. “Selfish people lost so much in life because even when they realize they are wrong, they don’t know how to ask for forgiveness or show regrets.” ~ Unknown
29. “If there is one thing I dislike, it is the man who tries to air his grievances when I wish to air mine.” ~ P.G. Wodehouse
30. “To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.” ~ Albert Camus
31. “No man will work for your interests unless they are his.” ~ David Seabury
32. “A lot of people were saying that i was a selfish person and a selfish player. You know, it got to me.” ~ LeBron James
33. “Selfish people also tend to have victim mindsets… Their actions plant seeds of loneliness; then they cry upon the blooming.” ~ Steve Maraboli
34. “Selfish people lost so much in life, because even when they realize they are wrong, they don’t know how to ask for forgiveness or show regrets.” ~ unknown
35. “Almost every sinful action ever committed can be traced back to a selfish motive. It is a trait we hate in other people but justify in ourselves.” ~ Stephen Kendrick
36. “Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.” ~ Douglas Horton
37. “It is the ignorant person who seeks his or her own ends at the expense of the greater whole. It is the ignorant person, therefore, who is the selfish person. The truly wise person is never selfish.” ~ Ralph Waldo Trine
38. “If we were not all so excessively interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.” ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
39. “A person is called selfish, not for pursuing his or her own good, but for neglecting his or her neighbor’s.” ~ Richard Whatly
40. “Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.” ~ William Cowper
41. “Yet there are still people who confuse individualism and selfishness.” ~ Albert Camus
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