Competition Quote by Frances Wright

Thorough selfishness destroys or paralyzes enjoyment. A heart made selfish by the contest for wealth is like a citadel stormed in war, utterly shattered.

— Henry Ward Beecher

We find personal success and great, if not enduring, influence on the outer fashioning of the world allotted to the violent, the passionate individual…

— Richard Wagner

Man cannot become attached to higher aims and submit to a rule if he sees nothing above him to which he belongs. To free…

— Emile Durkheim

Where no man thinks himself under any obligation to submit to another, and, instead of co-operating in one great scheme, every one hastens through…

— Samuel Johnson

“When our passive feelings are almost always so sordid and so selfish, how comes it that our active principles should often be so generous…

— Adam Smith

Thus suicidal selfishness, that blights The fairest feelings of the opening heart, Is destined to decay, whilst from the soil Shall spring all virtue,…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When this world advances towards anyone (with its favours) it attributes to him other's good; and when it turns away from him it deprives…

— Imam Ail

“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

There is a kind of grandeur and respect which the meanest and most insignificant part of mankind endeavor to procure in the little circle…

— Joseph Addison

Man—every man—is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others; he must live for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself…

— Ayn Rand

“What we traditionally call ‘selfish tendencies’ is only a narrow interpretation of what self-serving behaviour entails, wherein human characteristics are perceived through the flawed…

— Athene's Theory of Everything