Selfishness

Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender. – Henri Frederic Amiel

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

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without in himself. – Henry Ward Beecher

Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself. – Julio Cortazar

The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts –the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria –are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy. – Edward Dahlberg

It’s Not All About You…Stay in the Game. Taking myself lightly means trading my self-absorption for connecting with others…it is really not all about you! One of our workshop participants relates to this principle in this way: Don’t make yourself more important than the situation. – Suzanne Mayo Frindt

The force of selfishness is as inevitable and as calculable as the force of gravitation. – Hailliard

Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

The greatest productive force is human selfishness. – Robert A. Heinlein

Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it. – Doug Horton

As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision. – Helen Keller

How a sickness enlarges the dimensions of a mans self to himself! He is his own exclusive object. Supreme selfishness is inculcated in him as his only duty, – Charles Lamb

Ive given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself. – Oscar Levant

In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth. – Malcolm Muggeridge

Lovers never get tired of each other because they are forever talking about themselves. – Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Selfishness, not love, is the actuating motive of the gallant. – Mme. Roland

If we were not all so excessively interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it. – Arthur Schopenhauer