Joel Osteen Quotes

He who lives only for himself is truly dead to others.

Doth any man live more to himself, or less to God, than the proud?

Being all about me is not a good thing - I don't care what 1978 tried to say - because as long as you mostly think about yourself, you're not going to be a wonderful person. You're just not.

It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.

His fundamental interest throughout his life was himself.

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

The enormous pitfall is devotion to oneself instead of to life. All works that are self-devoted are absolutely ineffective.

Frankly, you need to get over yourself. It might sound harsh, but that's seriously what it means [1 Corinthians 10:31].

If you want to be miserable, think about yourself, about what you want, what you like, what respect people ought to pay you and what people think of you.

[Dona Maria] saw that the people of this world moved about in an armor of egotism, drunk with self-gazing, athirst for compliments, hearing little of what was said to them, unmoved by the accidents that befell their closest friends, in dread of all appeals that might interrupt their long communion with their own desires.

Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age; but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to join selfishness.

The unhappy person resents it when you try to cheer him up, because that means he has to stop dwelling on himself and start paying attention to the universe. Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence. When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. You get to take yourself oh so very seriously.

Most people are so stuck in their egos that everything revolves around me, me, and more me. But if you want to be rich in the truest sense of the word, it can't only be about you. It has to include adding value to other people's lives.

There is no room for God in him who is full of himself.

People who talk only of themselves think only of themselves.

Ironically, often the thing that keeps me from experiencing joy is my preoccupation with self. The very selfishness that keeps me from pouring myself out for the joy of others also keeps me from noticing and delighting in the myriad small gifts God offers each day. This is why Walker Percy describes boredom as "the self stuffed with the self."

All is egotism. The only people whose mainspring is not egotism are the dead and perhaps idiots.

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

You are always talking about yourself and tennis and how you are feeling. I try to avoid it when I don't have to.

I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness.

Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.

If you are passionate only about yourself -that is the road to disaster.

We're not all nice, and there are a lot of levels of ambition and niceness.

I used to spend a lot of time just thinking about myself, thinking that the party started when I showed up.

Selfish, arrogant people drive me crazy.