S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Selfies have begun to replace memories – likes and comments have begun to replace lasting conversations – illusive friends and followers lists have begun to replace real reliable friendship. And this is nothing to be taken for granted.”
Source: The Gospel of Technology
“Selfies often deceive us into believing that some people love themselves, or the way they look.”
“Selfies, they call 'em, and that makes sense 'cause even though they're sending these pictures to others, it still smells like selfish to me. Is that why they call it an "I phone"? 'Cause it's all about me me me. Like talking to hear yourself talk.”
“Selfish act is very tempting but it leaves a permanent dent on your character.”
Source: Rousing Cadence
“Selfish acts will only lead to your own destruction.”
“Selfish Apologies Aren’t Apologies at All”
Source: Why Leadership Sucks™ Volume 1: Fundamentals of Level 5 Leadership and Servant Leadership
“Selfish Dreamscapes
If you have a dream, as you should, relish in being selfish about building every passionate aspect of it. The crowd of spectators and consumers will still be exactly where you left them... gossiping about everybody else's dream but their own.”
Source: From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph over Death and Conscious Encounters With the Divine Presence
“Selfish. Growing into yourself is nothing but that.”
Source: Swimming in the Dark
“Selfish hedonism is not a pejorative. It is a description - an exactly accurate description of what is involved in homosexual relations.”
“Selfish in his posture; material at his grasp, smirk upon his face; but this success will not last.
For you see, son, his purpose; lost along the way,
He started only living; for the dollar that he made.
Never make that error; for a dime to loose sight of your seek,
For value is not measured, by the wealth at your feet”
“Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.”
Source: In His Image: By William Jennings Bryan
“Selfish is an exploitation of others for self; selfless is an exploitation of self for others. Both are extrinsic. ..... Selfness. When selfness prevails, the qualities of others are sometimes used for self and the qualities of self are often extended to others. The basic and key difference is that exploitation is never the object of the outcome.”
“Selfish is caring for ourselves at others' expense ... Self-care is taking care of ourselves so that we can be there for others.”
“Selfish is easy. It's sharing that takes courage.”
“Selfish isn't a dirty word. It means we take care of ourselves and are able to give back.”
“Selfish love hurts, selfless love heals.”
“Selfish men make the best lovers. They're prepared to invest in the women's pleasures so that they can collect an even bigger dividend for themselves.”
“Selfish men were...trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights”
“Selfish people are always seeking ways to advance themselves. They only notice you when you have something beneficial to them. Realize when someone is using you for their own personal gains and put a stop to it.”
Source: Release The Ink
“Selfish people are dangerous and poisonous. They don't care about anyone than themselves. They don't take blame or responsibility. They think they are entitled to everything and to everyone. They always think they are the victims and it is never ever their fault.”
“Selfish people are in a way terribly capable of great loves.”
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“Selfish people are never contented”
“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.”
“Selfish people will ask for anything. They will ask for your oxygen when they can breathe just fine. They will ask for your food when they are full. They will ask for your love when they have people who love them already. They will ask for your feet when they can already walk. They will try to force you to give it to them no matter what, but the one thing they can never have is your heart. Theirs is cold and broken and their body just couldn't handle the warmth that comes with the kindness, love, and generosity that yours can hold.”
“Selfish people, with no heart to speak of, have the best time of it.”
“Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.”
Source: The Erich Fromm Reader: Readings Selected and Edited by Rainer Funk
“Selfish prudence is too often allowed to come between duty and human life.”
“Selfish relationships won’t have any bonding; selfless love won’t have any boundary or barrier.”
Source: Krishna Crux
“Selfish self is septic self.”
Source: Ingan Impossible: Handbook of Hatebusting
“Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.”
Source: Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs
“Selfish-gene theory tells us nothing about the value of interacting through language.”
“Selfishly I'd like to have invisibility because I've always wanted to go into other people's houses and see what they look like and just watch them interact.”
“Selfishly, perhaps, Catti-brie had determined that the assassin was her own business. He had unnerved her, had stripped away years of training and discipline and reduced her to the quivering semblance of a frightened child. But she was a young woman now, no more a girl. She had to personally respond to that emotional humiliation, or the scars from it would haunt her to her grave, forever paralyzing her along her path to discover her true potential in life.”
“Selfishly, working with kids gives me joy - it makes me feel like my life has a purpose. And I thought, Imagine what we can do in the White House, particularly with the kids in the D.C. area, many of whom have never set foot on the White House lawn.”
“Selfishness alone is sufficient to bring apocalypse upon a nation.”
“Selfishness and demagoguery take advantage of liberty. The selfish hand constantly seeks to control government, and every increase of governmental power, even to meet just needs, furnishes opportunity for abuse and stimulates the effort to bend it to improper uses.”
Source: Conditions of Progress in Democratic Government
“Selfishness and fear are at the root of (pro-abortion) legislation...We in the Church have a great struggle to defend life...life is a gift not a threat.”
“Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.”
“Selfishness and self-absorption are deadly charm-exterminators.”
“Selfishness and separatation have led me to believe that the world is not my problem. I am the world.”
“Selfishness at the core is to think you have a special problem- a problem that God cannot deal with, that God didn’t deal with at the cross. You do not have anything special that has been dealt out to you.”
“Selfishness beats altruism within groups. Altruistic groups beat selfish groups. Everything else is commentary.”
Source: Does Altruism Exist?: Culture, Genes, and the Welfare of Others
“Selfishness can be a virtue. Selfishness is essential to survival, and without survival we cannot protect those whom we love more than ourselves.”
Source: Music is my mistress
“Selfishness comes from poverty in the heart, from the belief that love is not abundant.”
“Selfishness comes from too little self-love, not too much, as we compensate for our lack. There's no such thing as caring for the self too much, just as there's no such thing as too much genuine affection for others. Our world suffers from too little self-love and too much judgment, insecurity, fear, and mistrust. If we all cared about ourselves more, most of these ills would disappear.”
Source: Dying to be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing
“Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.”
“Selfishness does not mean only to do things for one's self. One may do things, affecting others, for his own pleasure and benefit. This is not immoral, but the highest of morality.”
“Selfishness doesn't consist in a love to yourself, but in a big degree of such love.”
“Selfishness draws men into a spiritual vacuum where, absorbed in self service, they shut out all others.”
“Selfishness even binds many people, but blindly without having any liking for one another.”