Esteem Quote by Ayn Rand

“Selfishness is self-absorption, self-seeking behaviour that either disregards the rights and needs of others or tramples them deliberately in favour of personal gain.”

— Adelyn Birch

Selfishness is the making a man's self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doeth.

— John Owen

The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Selfishness isn’t characterized by knowing how you feel or what you want; selfishness is when you demand that other people always cater to your…

— Leslie Vernick

Selfishness is weakness. But loving and caring for others is a position of power beyond anything we can possibly imagine.

— Joel Osteen

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

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without in himself

— Henry Ward Beecher

Selfishness draws men into a spiritual vacuum where, absorbed in self service, they shut out all others.

— William R. Bradford

In short, selfishness is the opposite of love.

— Tim LaHaye

Selfishness can be a virtue. Selfishness is essential to survival, and without survival we cannot protect those whom we love more than ourselves.

— Duke Ellington

Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Selfishness is like a disease that suffocates our capacity to love. While love asks us to deny ourselves for the sake of another, selfishness…

— Stephen Kendrick