Definition of Selfishness

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Selfishness

The quality or state of being selfish; exclusive regard to one's own interest or happiness; that supreme self-love or self-preference which leads a person to direct his purposes to the advancement of his own interest, power, or happiness, without regarding those of others.

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Selfishness Quotations

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

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

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

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Oscar Wilde

Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
Jane Austen

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
Richard Bach

Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.
Woodrow Wilson

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Selfishness Translations

selfishness in German is Egoismus, Selbstsucht

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