Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes

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

But the bottom line is that, as humans, we are by nature selfish creatures. The only way we care about anything, really, is by making it about us.

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

I think sometimes for me that sounds like almost being selfish. I am not about personal records.

Men tend to be selfish.

It's so easy to be selfish in your 20s and not want to sacrifice.

If you love friends, you will serve your friends. If you love community, you will serve your community. If you love money, you will serve your money. And if you love only yourself, you will serve only yourself. And you will have only yourself.

Philanthropy can have a very strong selfish component.

Majority of minds are warped into the belief of the only person worth helping is themself.

It's good to be authentic, to help other people, but if it's not helping other people, then don't do it.

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

Altruism accrues little benefit to those lying cold in the gutter.

Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.

I've been selfish over the years, and other people who have made it have too, but I can only speak for myself.

The part of the philanthropist is indeed a dangerous one; and the man who would do his neighbour good must first study how not to do him evil, and must begin by pulling the beam out of his own eye.

But I would encourage anyone who has a crush on my character to watch it again and examine how selfish he is.

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.

To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect on me is to live on the doorstep of hell. Selfishness is doomed to frustration centered as it is upon a lie. To live exclusively for myself, I must make all things bend themselves to my will as if I were a god.

If all I cared about was me, I could make a million. And that's what they will never understand.

Notwithstanding his very liberal laudation of himself, however, the Major was selfish. It may be doubted whether there ever was a more entirely selfish person at heart; or at stomach is perhaps a better expression, seeing that he was more decidedly endowed with that latter organ than with the former.

Whatever you may do for your brother, being hungry, and a stranger, and naked, not even the devil will be able to despoil, but it will be laid up in an inviolabe treasure.

Selfishness keeps man blind through life.

The more good I do, the more money has come in. You have to learn to give. You're not born to give. You're born selfish.

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway.

A lot of people were saying that I was a selfish person and a selfish player. You know, it got to me.