Community Quote by Richard Whately

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting…

— Oscar Wilde

Selfishness reigns in our society. Men and women today look out for themselves to the neglect and hurt of those around them.

— John Bevere

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

— James Madison

A true man is always willing to help others. But a selfish nothing thinking except himself.

— Mak_786

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

— John Owen

A true man is always willing tohelp others. But a selfish nothing thinking except himself.

— Mak_786

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

— Ayn Rand

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

Nothing is more condemnable than selfishness. A man who thinks of himself alone is the most unlucky person of all.

— Anand Neelakantan

Poor human nature cannot do everything; and kindness is too often left uncultivated, because men do not sufficiently understand its value. Men may be…

— Frederick William Faber

If the man succeeds in becoming indifferent to the opinions of his neighbors he runs into another danger, that of a distorted and extravagant…

— Charles Horton Cooley