I leave you the best selfish quotes from great authors such as Helen Keller, Ayn Rand, Erich Fromm, Paulo Coelho, Martin Luther King, Alejandro Dumas, Mahatma Gandhi and many more.
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-Selfish people are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves.-Erich Fromm.
-Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.-Martin Luther King.
-A man is not defined as selfish for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting the good of others.-Richard Whately.
57-We must rise above the clouds of ignorance, ineptitude and selfishness.-Booker T. Washington.
28-Selfishness is blind.-Mahatma Gandhi.
-One of the misfortunes of our country is that individual interest ignores collective interest.-Santiago Ramón y Cajal.
-In an individual, selfishness leaves his soul empty. For the human species, selfishness is extinction.-David Mitchell.
-One of the biggest diseases in the world is selfishness.-Teresa of Calcutta.
-Nothing is more closely like selfishness than self-respect.-George Sand.
-As selfishness and complaint pervade the mind, love with its joy clears and sharpens vision.-Helen Keller.
32-Selfishness comes from poverty in the heart, from the belief that love is not abundant.-Don Miguel Ruiz.
-If all the people in this world were selfish we would not have a world to live in.-WL Orme.
37-Selfishness is not living as one wishes, it is asking others to live as one wants to live.-Oscar Wilde.
-No man will work for interests other than his.-David Seabury.
37-Selfishness is the detestable vice that nobody forgives in others, but that everyone has.-Henry Ward Beecher.
-The selfish people are incapable of falling in love.-F. Scott Fitzgerald.
-We cannot judge the lives of others, since each person knows their own pain. It is one thing to feel that you are on the right path and quite another to think that yours is the only path.-Paulo Coelho.
The glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.-William Cowper.
-The man is an egoism mitigated by an indolence.-Fernando Pessoa.
-I swear, for my life and my love for her, that I will never live for the good of another man, nor do I ask that another man live for the good of me.-Ayn Rand.
-What are leisure and indolence, if not the plastic forms of selfishness? -Nicolás Avellaneda.
-I have freedom. But freedom means total selfishness. It means that nobody cares much about what you do.-Lynn Barber.
12-Good character consists in recognizing the selfishness that is inherent in each one of us and trying to balance it against the altruism to which we all should aspire.-Alan Dershowitz.
-Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.- Richard Bach.
-If you want to take a long trip, travel light. Take away envy, jealousy, loneliness, selfishness and fear.-Cesare Pavese.
-The sun can dispel the darkness of the night, but it cannot banish the darkness of malice, hatred, intolerance and selfishness from the hearts of humanity.-David O. McKay.
-The twin sister of religion is selfishness.-Percy Bysshe Shelley.
35-Egoism has very deep roots.-Arthur Schopenhauer.
19-Courtesy is just a thin layer of varnish on selfishness in general.-Honore de Balzac.
24-We are all made basically of the same material: generosity and selfishness, kindness and greed.-Madeleine M. Kunin.
-The first human being without that second skin that we call selfishness is yet to be born.-José Saramago.
-We only feel public evils when they affect our particular interests.-Tito Livio.
-Generally selfish people are always very determined about what they want. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.-Ouida.
-Selfishness, a sentence easily surpassed by those who have never tasted their own power of sacrifice.-George Eliot.
-Love is the most selfish of all passions.-Alexander Dumas.
-Your own interest serves you better not letting yourself be carried away by him.-Lao Tzu.
-Most people are too busy with themselves to be malicious.-Friedrich Nietzsche.
-No man is more deceived than the selfish man.-Henry Ward Beecher.
-All war in the world has its origin in selfish people.-Fulton J. Sheen.
-A man is nothing more than the things he does to get what he wants.-Hal Ackerman.
-Selfishness and greed cause most of our problems.-Harry Truman.
-Self pity is pure selfishness. After all, it is self-centeredness in its purest form.-Rick Yancey.
-Respect to all innocent souls, as they are kind enough to forgive the selfish people around them.-Saurabh Sharma.
-He who wants in this life all things to his liking, will have many troubles in his life.-Francisco de Quevedo.
-I have been a selfish being all my life, not in theory, but in practice.-Jane Austen.
37-Egoism is not self-love, but a disorderly passion for oneself.-Aristotle.
10-Love in the service of oneself is greed in disguise.-Craig D. Lounsbrough.
-Being jealous is the height of selfishness, it is self-love in default, it is the irritation of a false vanity.-Honoré de Balzac.
-Man is an extremely complex creature: he usually acts in a disinterested way for selfish reasons.-Mokokoma Mokhonoana.
-Sometimes you have to be selfish to be disinterested.-Edward Albert.
-The interest has no temples. But he is worshiped by many devotees.-Voltaire.
-Let's try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.-Richard Dawkins.
-All that is done in self-interest is justified.-Oscar Wilde.
-Manifest simplicity, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness and have few desires.-Lao Tzu.
35-A great achievement is usually born of a great sacrifice, and never as a result of selfishness.-Napoleon Hill.
23-Selfishness must always be forgiven, because there is no hope of a cure.-Jane Austen.
-Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.-William E. Gladstone.
-Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.-Woodrow Wilson.
-If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then it must be the key to being happy.-Joyce Meyer.
-The poison of selfishness is what destroys the world.-Catherine of Siena.
-There are moments in life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary.-Kris Kristofferson.
37-Selfishness is one of the qualities that love is capable of inspiring.-Nathaniel Hawthorne.
-Let's reject the violence and selfishness that could destroy the union of our country.-Mwai Kibaki.
-People are so selfish that even those you help turn against you.-Munshi Premchand.
-The only difference between a hero and a villain is that the villain chooses to use his power in a way that is selfish and hurts other people.-Chadwick Boseman.
-It is good to be selfish, but not so much as to never listen to other people.-Hugh Herfner.
-If you want to be a generous giver, beware of selfish takers.-Adam Grant.
-A selfish man is a thief.-Jose Marti.
-What a cage is for a wild beast, is the law for a selfish man.-Herbert Spencer.
-There is no man so disinterested and selfish as a man in love.-Thomas Bailey Aldrich.
-Love is not selfish. It is something else.-Morten Tyldum.
24-We are all prone to being a little selfish and a little lazy.-Gordon B. Hinckley.
-You can not be criticized for being selfish if you are going to be better for that.-Jerry Lewis.
-To be happy, we should not worry too much about others.-Albert Camus.
-People do not want other people to be people.-Gene Wolfe.
-Being selfish is not necessarily a bad thing. It only means that you care about yourself and you have to be that way to be able to care about others.-Tera Lynn Childs.
-The generation that destroys the environment is not the generation that pays the price. That is the problem.-Wangari Maathai.
-In all classes of society, gratitude is the rarest virtue of all humans.-Wilkie Collins.
-The tide rarely changes in favor of a selfish individual.-Carlos Wallace.
-It's interesting how the selfish, the ignorant, and the one who is constantly angry tend to be the same person.-Wayne Gerard Trotman.
-The force of selfishness is as inevitable and as calculable as the force of gravity.-Hailliard.
-Nobody is as empty as those who are full of themselves.-Benjamin Whichcote.