Best Self Centered Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Even a thousand acts of kindness can be undone by a single unintentional harm, revealing the fragility of trust in human relationships, and the harsh truth stares into one's eyes that humans are often so self-centered and selfish that reliability and reciprocity seems an illusion in this world.”

Kindness Trust Harm Selfish Self Centered Human Relationships Reciprocity Fragility Reliability

Author:Renuka Goria

“My rights do not include the right to do wrong.”

Values Rights Ethics Selfish Wrong Morals Right Self Centered Entitlement

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The ego is what drives a self-serving individual who hates to admit they are wrong.”

Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Part of not being a self-centered asshole, Colin reasoned, is doing things with your friends even when you don't want to.”

Friendship Friends Self Centered

Book:An Abundance of Katherines

Source: An Abundance of Katherines

“DOLMANCE — [...] What is it one desires when taking one's pleasure? that everything around us be occupied with nothing but ourselves, think of naught but us, care for us only.”

Pleasure Self Centered

Book:Philosophy in the Boudoir

Source: Philosophy in the Boudoir

“Doing nothing but seeking pleasure is an attitude that will bankrupt our souls long before we ever seek out the pleasures that we thought would fill them.”

Soul Pleasure Attitude Selfish Greedy Self Centered Bankrupt Pleasure Seeking

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I want what I want! And I want to find what I want in the exact place, at exact time that I want it to be there. And maybe that’s why so many of us go ‘wanting’.”

Want Desire Greed Selfish Self Centered Discover Egotistical Find Controlling Demanding

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Only a demon would prevent a person from saving lives or fulfilling their life mission. There is no reasoning with the devil. Stand with pride because your heart is filled with the goodness of helping others, while theirs is filled with helping themselves.”

“If I see God as nothing more than a caricature of history or imagination I cannot do anything less than make myself my own ‘god’. And once I realize that in doing so my rendition of being a ‘god’ is embarrassingly inferior to the very caricature I am mimicking, I quickly come to realize that maybe the only thing that can be ‘god’ is a God. And if that is the case, I suddenly find myself hounded by the stunning reality that God is not a caricature.”

“The change from self-centeredness to human-centeredness is the key to peaceful existence.”

Source: Think Great: Be Great!

“Greed is the fast-track to poverty.”

Poverty Greed Selfish Selfishness Greedy Self Centered Bankruptcy Egocentric Bankrupt Impoverished

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Yes, there are times when the world turns upside down, logic becomes subject to the muse of reckless interpretation, truth becomes the bed-child of selfish goals, and people are off on a wild course that bludgeons everyone they once loved or anyone who gets in the way of what they now purport to love.”

People Love Evil Change Selfish Selfishness Greedy Reckless Self Centered

Book:The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

Source: The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey

“Either Aşkistan or Junglistan (A Sonnet) Ours is either aşkistan, Land of love founded on amity, Or it is an archaic junglistan, Run by contagious self-centricity. What is civilized is also unselfish, For selfishness makes the animal, Across the self there is humanity, What is unselfish is also accountable. Technology may bring comfort, But it doesn't ensure ascension, When comfort belongs to the privileged, Such progress is mere descension. Over 3 billion years have gone in selfishness, It's time to unself our soul and rise as sapiens.”

Humanity Kindness Civilization Goodness Selfishness Selfless Evolutionary Psychology Sonnet Self Centered Love And Kindness

Book:Solo Standing on Guard: Life Before Law

Source: Solo Standing on Guard: Life Before Law

“All humankind is born of the same inner goodness and fundamental ruthlessness as all the other creatures of nature. Man can never totally divorce himself from the beast that comprises part of his essential nature. It is not that our inner natures are entirely self-centered or completely filled with goodness. We can choose to make moral or immoral choices.”

Goodness Innocence Ruthless Self Centered Goodness Quotes Ruthlessness Loss Of Innocence Moral Choices Ruthless People

Book:Dead Toad Scrolls

Source: Dead Toad Scrolls

“The greatest ‘victory’ in any victory is that I didn’t make it about myself.”

Success Failure Victory Achievement Selfish Selfless Self Centered Narcissistic Egocentric

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I know plenty of people who would be happy to give you the shirt off your back.”

People Politics Greed Selfish Agendas Manipulation Self Centered Shirt

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“While it may seem uninhibited and respectable to say, "who cares what anyone thinks about me" and "I don't mind what anyone thinks about me," what you're really saying is no different from "I'm going to fool everyone." Especially in this case.”

Truth Lies Self Centered

Book:鬼物語 [Onimonogatari]

Source: 鬼物語 [Onimonogatari]

“Any narrative that we write is a narrative that we will eventually need to be saved from, with the exception of this one.”

Truth Lies Selfish Saved Narrative Story Manipulation Greedy Self Centered False

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Greed is everything that it says it’s not.”

Lies Greed Selfish Denial Greedy Self Centered Distortions Ego Centric

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Those who claim to need no one are selfish fools and liars.”

Lies Selfishness Liars Foolishness Self Centered Misanthrope No Man Is An Island

Author:Wayne Gerard Trotman

“Freedom abused is one of the greatest forms of slavery imaginable.”

America Freedom United States Lies Slavery Greed Deception Self Centered Abused Enslaved

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It is in embracing an unwavering adherence to Biblical principles that we will find a sustainable argument for the conviction that ‘sacrifice is the only sensible vocation.’ And it is the irresistible nature of that argument that can lift us above the incessantly gnawing desire to make ourselves the only vocation.”

God Christian Jesus Sacrifice Bible Greed Biblical Vocation Self Centered Ego Centric

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Greed is the thief of the soul.”

Soul Greed Selfishness Greedy Self Centered Thief Ego Centric

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Yet, there is a sense of some deep sort that runs entirely contrary to human nature; that in putting ourselves first, we must by necessity put others first.”

Sacrifice Human Nature Human Greed Selfish Self Centered Self Sacrifice First Necessity

Book:An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

Source: An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

“I want to see you happy because it makes me happy to see my loved ones joyful. "Robbie!" Emily begins protesting. "I am a person that can't be reasoned with, I'm illogical and I'm really self-centered." "I know," Robbie sniffles. Then adds, "I think though, that even when people are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered, we should love them anyway. Because they need it the most.”

Happiness Life Philosophy Resentment Self Centered Illogical Behavior

Author:Rifa Coolheart

“To live unto oneself never involves living.”

Life Self Living Selfish Selfishness Self Centered Narcissistic Ego Centric

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If the outcome of our years lived serves us, I would suggest that we haven’t lived.”

Life Years Results Living Selfish Greedy Self Centered Outcome Lived

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The self-centered man will always expect nothing but praise. He will hope and expect all incoming criticism to be mere self-projection from the critic because when you're self-centered, self-projection is all you can imagine one can do.”

Hope Imagination Psychology Pride Ego Judgment Criticism Praise Witty Envy Clever Denial Jealousy Arrogance Narcissism Projection Self Centered Wishful Thinking Critic Wishful Self Projection

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“If the heart of a man turns toward self he has turned away from all else. And what a pitiful life to have missed the grandness of ‘all else’ for the smallness of ‘oneself.”

World Life Heart Self Ego Selfish Possibilities Self Centered Heart Of Man

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If I were to sit down and count them, how many of my prayers were tainted by the seduction of greed? None, simply because nothing of that sort is a prayer.”

“Maybe you should ask, “Whose pain, whose gain?”

Pain Opportunity Growth Struggle Perspective Greed Point Of View Self Centered Gain

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Might I work to be better than the self that I claim is better.”

Self Pride Ego Self Improvement Arrogance Arrogant Self Centered Egotistical Prideful

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“What are we actually saving ourselves from, other than the failed notion that we can save ourselves?”

Self Salvation Notion Foolish Deception Rescue Idea Self Centered Save Failed

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Death is rendered tragic when it finds us having expended ourselves in the endeavor of having lived for ourselves. For when it finds us at the end of such a life as this, it finds us in the company of no one other than ourselves. And that alone may be worse than death itself.”

Life Self Death Choices Selfish Self Centered Egocentric

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If life is always my party, I’ll never need to order much food.”

Self Party Food Greedy Self Centered Narcissistic Ego Centric

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Be assured that whatever it is, there will be nothing ‘in it for me’ if I approach it from the perspective of ‘what’s in it for me.”

Self Ego Greed Selfish Selfishness Greedy Self Centered Narcissistic Ego Centric

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The greatest cause involves the decision not to make myself the greatest cause.”

Self Sacrifice Selfish Surrender Greedy Self Centered Cause Ego Centric

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Really it’s about God saving me from myself, for if that doesn’t happen ‘first’ then there is no ‘second’.”

Self God Christian Jesus Salvation Selfish Rescue Self Centered Save Ego Centric

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The fool who thinks he’s god will rather quickly discover that he is not, which simply means that the person who was fooled by the fool is none other than the fool himself.”

Self God Ego Foolish Deceived Self Centered Narcissistic Egotistical

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“One is not necessarily made self-centered because he is foolish, but one is very often made foolish because he is self-centered.”

Self Humility Pride Ego Selfish Foolish Arrogance Self Centered Egotistical Inconsiderate

Book:Healology

Source: Healology

“Living for myself ends at myself, and that is very small place to end.”

Self Death Selfish End Self Centered Ending Egocentric

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“A compass calibrated by my greed is a rather shrewd way to legitimize my agenda. However, true north on a compass such as this is a straight line to the edge of a really big cliff.”

“The thing that I’m most likely to collapse under is not the weight of the stresses that stand around me, but the ego that sits within me.”

Self Ego Weight Greed Heavy Selfish Intense Selfishness Collapse Narcissism Greedy Self Centered Narcissistic Egotistical Stand Sit Stands Sits

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“These ideas fit the experience of these Japanese women who often talked about searching for or trying to develop "self" (jibun). Cultivating or polishing self by doing tea ceremony or being a good mother, for example, had a good connotation for the Japanese because it meant that you were trying to go beyond your narrow self and connect self with the larger world beyond social norms. But developing self in the new way these women used it meant to develop self according to just what you want to do or in a way that enhances your own possibilities in the world. Would others see choosing a life for self as selfish? These women had to maintain some ambiguity because they were wandering into dangerous territory when they wanted to travel just to enjoy themselves, or keep working and not marry. In a society that honored the cultivation of a larger self, would they themselves someday suffer for having chosen the self-centered way?”

Self Western Self Realization Japan Individualism Self Centered Sense Of Self Modernism Collectivism Self Actualization East Vs West Jibun Larger Self

Book:Dilemmas of Adulthood: Japanese Women and the Nuances of Long-Term Resistance

Source: Dilemmas of Adulthood: Japanese Women and the Nuances of Long-Term Resistance

“If I can’t quite figure out what an ego is, all I have to do is look for the thing that’s killing itself in the very act of feeding itself.”

“If I’m my biggest fan, the only person in the stadium is probably me.”

Self Self Love Ego Lonely Greed Selfish Alone Narcissism Greedy Self Centered Narcissistic Ego Centric Fan Stadium

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“If it’s about me, I can be assured that there will be a bunch of empty chairs in the auditorium of my life; save the one I’m sitting in.”

Self Ego Lonely Empty Greed Selfish Alone Selfishness Chairs Narcissism Greedy Self Centered Narcissistic Me Egocentric Self Centeredness Self Focused Auditorium

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I pretend to give gifts that people pretend to be gifts so that I can pretend that I gave something that actually cost me something. And what pretending or this sort gives me is the gift of a pretend life.”

“Anger gets you into trouble, ego keeps you in trouble.”

Source: Wealth of Words

“The shortest short-term investment is to serve ourselves.”

Self Investment Greed Selfish Selfishness Greedy Self Centered Invest Hoarding Self Serving Short Hoard Shortest Stock Stockpile

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

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