All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
Helen Keller

As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed and selfishness prevent that and there is always one bad apple in every barrel.
Rick Danko

Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.
Douglas Horton

Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
Woodrow Wilson

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.
Honore De Balzac

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
Napoleon Hill

How sick one gets of being "good," how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness.
Alice James

Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice.
Elihu Root

I was surprised by how much I like being a father; surprised at what a decent father I am, because I was afraid I wouldn't be able to dump my selfishness.
Michael Zaslow

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
Cesare Pavese

It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
Edgar Watson Howe

Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.
Henry Ward Beecher

Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion.
John Comenius

Let us reject violence and selfishness which could destroy our country's unity.
Mwai Kibaki

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.
Lao Tzu

Men err from selfishness; women because they are weak.
Madame de Stael

My desire for the part of Mammy was not dominated by selfishness for Hollywood has been good to me and I am grateful.
Hattie McDaniel

Our enemies are our evil deeds and their memories, our pride, our selfishness, our malice, our passions, which by conscience or by habit pursue us with a relentlessness past the power of figure to express.
George A. Smith