Definition of Selfishness
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.
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Oscar Wilde
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
Napoleon Hill
Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.
Lao Tzu
Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.
Helen Keller
To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
Adam Smith
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
Selfishness Translations
selfishness in German is Egoismus, Selbstsucht
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