Draws Quote by William R. Bradford

By obliging men to turn their attention to other affairs than their own, it rubs off that private selfishness which is the rust of…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Men tend to be selfish.

— Caprice Bourret

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

— John Owen

All men who live only according to their five senses, and seek nothing beyond the gratification of their natural appetites for pleasure and reputation…

— Thomas Merton

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

— John Bevere

Of all influences that cause men to choose wrong, selfishness is undoubtedly the strongest. Where it is, the Spirit is not.

— William R. Bradford

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

— Ayn Rand

Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.

— Madame de Stael

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

— J. C. Ryle

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“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

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