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Sordid selfishness doth contract and narrow our benevolence, and cause us, like serpents, to infold ourselves within ourselves, and to turn out our stings to the entire world besides.
-Sir Walter Scott
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Despite those titles, power, and pelf,
The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust, from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonor'd, and unsung.
-Sir Walter Scott
The Lay of the Last Minstrel, CANTO VI
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A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.
-David Seabury
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No man will work for your interests unless they are his.
-David Seabury
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He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.
-Tertullian
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Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.
-William Makepeace Thackeray
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He who takes but never gives, may last for years but never lives.
-Source Unknown
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He who is wrapped up in himself makes a mighty small package.
-Source Unknown
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Know the Self as Lord of the chariot, the body as the chariot itself, the discriminating intellect as the charioteer, and the mind as the reins. The senses, say the wise, are the horses; selfish desires are the roads they travel.
-Katha Upanishad
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None are so empty as those who are full of themselves.
-Benjamin Whichcote
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The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race.
-Gough Whitlam
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
-Oscar Wilde
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Long before Einstein told us that matter is energy, Machiavelli and Hobbes and other modern political philosophers defined man as a lump of matter whose most politically relevant attribute is a form of energy called self-interestedness. This was not a
-George Will
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If you think about yourself then you've lost sight of the ball.
-Mike Willesee
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A little group of willful men reflecting no opinion but their own have rendered the great Government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
-Woodrow Wilson
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If you live only for yourself you are always an immediate danger of being bored to death with the repetition of your own views and interests. No one has learned the meaning of living until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellowmen.
-W. Beran Wolfe
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Books about Selfishness
