Francine Rivers Quotes

The trouble is, most people are not so generous. Everybody wants love for themselves. I hear this all the time from the women I work with. I hear them say, "I want, I want." I never hear them saying what they want to give.

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

Selfish people, with no heart to speak of, have the best time of it.

favors are always for ourselves. Especially when we ask for things for other people.

Donald Trump always puts himself first.

Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.

We're into an age of excessive individuals, all right. We're into the age were independence, autonomy, convenience, sometimes selfishness. The new trinity of me, myself and I, seems to dominate. We know that's contrary to the very nature of the human person. The very nature of the human person needs God and needs other people.

Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.

The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.

Men frequently do good only to give themselves opportunity of doing ill with impunity.

The fawning courtier and the surly squire often mean the same thing,--each his own interest.

A friend advises in his interest, not yours.

The very men to whom the whole country looks to set an example …to accept … the personal inconvenience, are doing exactly the reverse …. They are cackling like wet hens to hold their special privilege.

Everybody's out there to make a case and sometimes a little hypocrisy gets involved with that case.

Everybody has an agenda.

We corrupt the word of truth, and mix ... our doctrine with what is common and cheap... in order to turn the adulteration to our profit, and accommodate ourselves to those who meet us, and curry favor with everyone, becoming ventriloquists and chatterers, who serve their own pleasures by words uttered from the earth, and sinking into the earth, and, to gain the special good will of the multitude

We are best pleased with reforms that are far enough away so as not to affect ourselves

The dilemma I have is that everything I do at work is all about me, and at what point is that selfish? I'm just talking and singing about myself, or I'm standing on a stage and hoping that everybody likes me. Obviously, it's also about the music and feeling and connecting; I know it's deeper than that.

Takers are self-serving in their interactions. It's all about what can you do for me.

Philanthropy can have a very strong selfish component.

If you just want money and tax cuts and stuff, fine - just stop acting like you're moral.

The natural life in each of us is something self-centred, something that wants to be petted and admired, to take advantage of other lives, to exploit the whole universe.

Remember the people you address are selfish, as we all are. They care nothing about your interests or profit. They seek service for themselves

She didn't know there were things worse than selfish.

You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She never let people forget what she had done for them - and, that way she missed love.