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When you work together in a creative way, you have to be less selfish about your ideas and learn to let both parties feel valued. Of course, that’s also a really great quality to have in a relationship, too. – St. Lucia

A focus on self-preservation is a choice for self-destruction. – Craig D. Lounsbrough

Selfishness at the expense of others is bad. Self-care for the betterment of others is good. – Richie Norton

We all of us need to be toppled off the throne of self. Perched up there the tears of others are never upon our own cheek. – Elizabeth Goudge

Love is the most selfish of all the passions. – Alexandre Dumas

We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness. – Booker T. Washington

The subsistence mentality of a person is a prison in which his personal joy is detained. If you want to live in joy, you don’t live for yourself alone. Live for others too. – Israelmore Ayivor

Selfish, a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their power of sacrifice. – George Eliot

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself. – Khalil Gibran

The only difference between a hero and the villain is that the villain chooses to use that power in a way that is selfish and hurts other people. – Chadwick Boseman

Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles. – Harry S. Truman

It is interesting how the selfish, the ignorant, and the constantly angry all tend to be the same person. – Wayne Gerard Trotman

You have this one life. If you keep being selfish and unkind, it’s going to come back to you. – Clemantine Wamariya

Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure’s sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue. – John Henry Newman

Self-interest is healthy to a certain extent, but beyond that it only brings conflicts and primitiveness in the world. – Abhijit Naskar

Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt. – William Cowper

Suppose you were the last one left? Suppose you did that to yourself? – Cormac McCarthy

A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor’s. – Richard Whately

No man is more cheated than the selfish man. – Henry Ward Beecher

Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either. – Erich Fromm

Being selfish to me means that you have to look out for yourself and you don’t have to sacrifice. – Herbie Mann

Everyone wants to help the world, but first and foremost everyone wants to help oneself. – Maria Karvouni

Even the early droplets of selfish decisions suggest a direction. Then the little inflecting rivulets come, merging into small brooks and soon into larger streams; finally one is swept along by a vast river which flows into the gulf of misery and endless whoa. – Neal A. Maxwell

If I am selfish I might have achieved great things, but achieving great things out of my selfishness is one of the most devastating ways I can think of to fail. – Craig D. Lounsbrough

Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others. – Ouida

If there is one thing I dislike, it is the man who tries to air his grievances when I wish to air mine. – P.G. Wodehouse

Selfish people try to keep or get things but they lose people. – Hannah Garrison