Go to the cross of Christ, all you that want to be delivered from the power of selfishness.

The highest form of selfishness is that of the man who is content to go to heaven alone.

Let this be thy whole endeavor, this thy prayer, this thy desire,-that thou mayest be stripped of all selfishness, and with entire simplicity follow Jesus only

And then there were our sweet stolen moments in the midst of our work – just a word, or caress, or flash of love-light; and our moments were sweeter for being stolen. For we lived on the heights, where the air was keen and sparkling, where the toil was for humanity, and where sordidness and selfishness never entered. We loved love, and our love was never smirched by anything less than the best. And this out of all remains: I did not fail.

Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: for it is perhaps your own coldness and avarice and mediocrity and materialism and selfishness that have chilled his faith

We must be selfish in our practice. ‘Selfish’ here is not a negative concept. This kind of selfishness doesn’t hurt anyone else, and it doesn’t mean you neglect others in any way. But it requires you to put your joy first.

If you suffer and make your loved ones suffer, there is nothing that can justify your desire.

Either way, no one has paid me back. Ever. No one was even nicer to me after spending my money.

Education has now become the chief problem of the world, its one holy cause. The nations that see this will survive, and those that fail to do so will slowly perish. . . . There must be re-education of the will and of the heart as well as of the intellect; and the ideals of service must supplant those of selfishness and greed.

Education has now become the chief problem of the world, its one holy cause. The nations that see this will survive, and those that fail to do so will slowly perish. . . . There must be re-education of the will and of the heart as well as of the intellect; and the ideals of service must supplant those of selfishness and greed.

Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.

Collectivists would have you believe that individualism is merely another word for selfishness, because individualists oppose welfare and other forms of coercive redistribution of wealth, but just the opposite is true. Individualists advocate true charity, which is the voluntary giving of their own money, while collectivists advocate the coercive giving of other people’s money; which, of course, is why it is so popular.

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

I have always found it quaint, and rather touching, that there is a movement [Freemasonry] in the U.S. that thinks Americans are not yet selfish enough

As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so sex with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

I don’t want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments. That’s no contribution to society. [Tennis] was purely selfish; that was for me

One, who abandons all desires, is free from pride and selfishness and behaves as one apart, finds peace.

Service without humility is selfishness and egotism.

Let it never be said by future generations that indifference, cynicism or selfishness made us fail to live up to the ideals of humanism which the Nobel Peace Prize encapsulates.