Health Quote by Eric Hoffer

There is in even the most selfish passion a large element of self-abnegation. It is startling to realize that what we call extreme self-seeking…

— Eric Hoffer

The Self is the internal abundance that can be realized at our will any time. It is capable of lifting us up from difficulties…

— Dhruva Bhargava

“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

“For those who suffer disposal, the cost is their very lives. For those of us who survive, there is a creeping indifference to anything…

— Michael D. O'Brien

“We live in an age when selfinterest alone seems to determine all of man’s acts—and what empathy, what emotion, what enthusiasm can ever grow…

— Anne-Louise-Germaine de Staël

The passion of self-aggrandizement is persistent but plastic; it will never disappear from a vigorous mind, but may become morally higher by attaching itself…

— Charles Horton Cooley

“Self-seeking is self-destruction”

— James Allen

“Anyway, there are two tentative solutions for getting rid of selfishness - both involving a stoic casting - off of the thin tenuous little…

— Sylvia Plath

“Unlike the rest of you, I cheerfully admit to my own utter selfishness. I am self-made, self-absorbed, self-serving, self-referential, even self-deprecating, in a charming…

— William Lashner

“All of our actions can signify self-love or self-sabotage”

— Sharon Salzberg

“The Art of Self, I've learned, is indispensable to material success but corrosive to the human spirit. What's more, much of the misery in…

— Lionel Fisher

Self-indulgence leads only to misery. Nothing great or even worthwhile is ever accomplished without struggle through adversity and self-sacrifice

— Maryam Jameelah