Action Quote by Adam Yauch

It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.

— Richard Dawkins

All our acts, reasoned and unreasoned, are selfish

— Mark Twain

At the core, our motives are always self-serving, Kate. Altruism is a fog created by sly minds seeking to benefit from the energy and…

— Ilona Andrews

We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly…

— Mortimer Adler

I've learned that the universe doesn't care what our motives are, only our actions. So we should do things that will bring about good,…

— Wendy Mass

Altruism is selfishness out with a pair of field glasses and imagination.

— Christina Stead

Selfishness is a bad habit. Thats why I always rationally think through my decisions to act without regard for others.

— Benson Bruno

Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our…

— William Wilberforce

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

— Ouida

To exercise some sort of control over others is the secret motive of every selfish person.

— Wallace D. Wattles

All altruism springs from putting yourself in the other person's place.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

One of the fundamental demonstrations of our natural instinct to Bond with each other is a will to give. Rather than domination, our most…

— Lynne McTaggart