40 phrases about selfishness to get you away from ungrateful people

May this selfishness of ours not destroy our hearts.

urban Legion

Life is an eternal exchange of stickers. It is because of selfishness that almost no one manages to complete the album.

Let’s not confuse self-love with selfishness. It’s one thing for you to take care of yourself and love yourself, it’s another to not care about anyone and be a bitch to everyone.

Diego Vinicius

Whoever lives selfishly, dies without affection.

True love is when you get rid of selfishness and you are more concerned about your partner or children than you are yourself. Now you are a giver and not a receiver.

Sylvester Stallone

Sometimes putting yourself first is not an act of selfishness, but self-love.

Selfishness makes excuses. Love finds ways.

Intellectual myopia is the most constant generator of selfishness.

Ruy Barbosa

Love is double selfishness.

Machado de Assis

The root of all evil is selfishness.

Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Selfishness causes ignorance, anger and lack of control, which are the origin of the world’s problems.

Dalai Lama

Relationships are constant exchanges on an equal footing. And that’s why relating to a selfish person becomes almost impossible.

Be happy, make human selfishness the thirst to love your neighbor.

Isaac Newton

A selfish love doesn’t fill you, doesn’t make you overflow. Quite the contrary: he sucks you in and doesn’t care about your well-being.

Selfish people don’t have time to worry about others because they are always busy taking care of themselves.

Irismar Oliveira

Being empathetic is also putting aside selfishness and putting yourself in the shoes of others.

A person is unique when he extends his hand, and when he withdraws it unexpectedly, he becomes one more. Selfishness unifies the insignificant.

William Shakespeare

Our selfishness is largely a product of society.

Emile Durkheim

I’m not selfish. I only value the only person in the world I can trust: myself.

Blair Waldorf

If the egoist contemplated the hellish solitude that awaits him, he would never depart from the indefatigable practice of fraternity and cooperation.

Spirit Emmanuel

Egoism is a deficiency that requires humanity to be stronger than itself in order to eradicate it.

Valeria Nunes de Almeida e Almeida

Selfishness is a very close brother to pride.

Giving up on learning is selfish. This is a saying that I like a lot. When we cherish the desire to learn more, our lives will be filled with genuine vitality and brilliance.

Daisaku Ikeda

My selfishness is so selfish that the height of my selfishness is wanting to help.

Raul Seixas

Selfishness pushes people away, isolates them, making them less and less empathetic. It’s a vicious circle.

Wars, poverty and social injustice are the greatest evidence of primitivism, selfishness and human incompetence.

Augusto Branco

Man is so selfish that it is necessary to speak of reward in another life in order for him to do good in this one.

Walter Waeny

The selfish person lives alone, for even his own joys cannot share.

The one who had to adapt to the rules of other people’s selfishness will never feel loved.

Father Fabio de Melo

People need to understand that we are not always available. Not out of selfishness, but out of necessity. Sometimes all we need is ourselves.

Selfishness is not living our way, but wanting others to live our way.

Oscar Wilde

Pride and selfishness are the greatest obstacles to human progress.

We are selfish, crawling beings, and as we have a brain with effort, we can absorb something beyond pure evil.

Casa, Lar

Selfishness is an illusion of the ego that poisons the soul and leaves us alone.

Vanity, the great enemy of selfishness, can give rise to all the effects of love for one’s neighbor.

Paul Valery

It is selfish to think only of ourselves as the center of the world and to build a closed world that isolates us from the opportunities that life can offer.

Rabbi Yaakov ben Shimon