Selfishness Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— John Owen

The really great man is often considered selfish by a large group of people who are connected with him and who feel that he…

— Wallace D. Wattles

Selfishness keeps man blind through life.

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

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

“A permanent possibility of selfishness arises from the mere fact of having a self, and not from any accidents of education or ill-treatment. And…

— G.K. Chesterton

Man is known to be a selfish, as well as a social being.

— James Madison

The attack on "selfishness" is an attack on man's self-esteem; to surrender one, is to surrender the other.

— Ayn Rand

Selfishness comes from poverty in the heart, from the belief that love is not abundant.

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

The highest form of selfishness is that of the man who is content to go to heaven alone.

— J. C. Ryle

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.

— Richard Whately