Selfish Quotes

It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.

We must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering.

I think that people who don’t like animals tend to be selfish, but I’m biased.

Before man can be free, and equal, and truly wise, he must cast aside the chains of habit and superstition; he must strip sensuality of its pomp, and selfishness of its excuses, and contemplate actions and objects as they really are.

When I was young, I was very selfish, now not any more.

No universal selfishness can bring social good to all.

So often do you see collegians enter life with high resolve and lofty purpose and then watch them shrink and shrink to sordid, selfish, shrewd plodders, full of distrust and sneers.

Nothing’s done well when it’s done out of self-interest.

I don’t want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments. That’s no contribution to society. Tennis was purely selfish; that was for me.

The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement – but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.