6+ Best Selfish Quotes in English

People are so selfish. Those you help are the ones who turn against you.

- Munshi Premchand -

Selfish people are all around us. They are our friends, coworkers, family members, and spouses. It’s hard being around self-focused people because they don’t tend to grasp – or care – about how their actions affect those around them. They can be frustrating and emotionally draining when you’re trying to have a healthy connection or positive interactions with them because they often take more than they are willing to give back.

Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.

- William E. Gladstone -

Selfishness is the greatest curse for the human race. Apart from selfishness, it has been also observed that the feeling of individual self also, at times, takes the form of ego or pride which drives us into destructive mode. However, when we get enlightened by spiritual knowledge, we realise how much wrong was our feeling of false pride or ego, which in turn brings in humility and introverts within us.

It's good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people.

- Hugh Hefner -

Selfishness is putting yourself, your own needs, in front of someone else's, most or all the time. The main difference between self-centered and selfish is that being self-centered refers to having an excessive interest and concern in oneself whereas being selfish refers to a lack of consideration for others in addition to one’s excessive interest in oneself. It's good to be selfish but not to be self-centered.

Every action that we take has some motivation of either being selfish or altruistic. All that adds up.

- Clemantine Wamariya -

Selfishness is often regarded as an undesirable or even immoral characteristic, whereas altruism is typically considered universally desirable and virtuous. Behavior is normally described as altruistic when it is motivated by a desire to benefit someone other than oneself for that person’s sake. The term is used as the contrary of “self-interested” or “selfish” or “egoistic”—words applied to behavior that is motivated solely by the desire to benefit oneself.

Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless.

- Edward Albert -

No one is an entirely selfish person, just like no one is an entirely selfless person; we’re all somewhere in between. We may be selfish in some areas, yet almost completely selfless in others. To truly be selfless, you have to give without expectation. It’s the mindset of giving with expectation, which kills everything. It just doesn’t work at all. Being selfish is the gateway to selflessness because you learn to take care of your own personal needs first in order to use that as collateral later so that you can really, truly help.

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism because we are born selfish.

- Richard Dawkins -

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.