selfish

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

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

Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

The attitude of the men is equally worthy of admiration...there is a rush to be first when work is to be done, and the same desire to sacrifice selfish consideration to the success of the expedition...Fortune would be in a hard mood indeed if it allowed such a combination of knowledge, experience, ability, and enthusiasm to achieve nothing.

To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.

Our true passions are selfish.

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.