Quote by Christine Porath

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

— Benson Bruno

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

You can be selfish by being too unselfish at times.

— Marc Gasol

“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

Not selfishness, but precisely the absence of a self. Look at them. The man who cheats and lies, but preserves a respectable front. He…

— Ayn Rand

Selfish— a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice.

— George Eliot

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

There are times where you have to be selfish.

— Joe Flacco

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

— Richard Dawkins

Drug addicts, when they are in their addiction, are selfish.

— Liz Brixius

“Being selfish isn’t choosing yourself over other people. Being selfish" is expecting other people to choose you over themselves.”

— Cody Edward Lee Miller

Even cynical, selfish people will realize, one way or the other, that it's not in their self-interest to act in self-destructive ways.

— David Grinspoon