There is a lot of talk about being selfish and how it’s a bad thing, but sometimes you have to be selfish in order to get what you want. Here are some quotes that will inspire you to be more selfish in your business pursuits.

The best selfishness quotes

1. Just like self–interest is not selfishness, well, confidence is not a negative. Confidence is not an off–putting thing. It’s, in fact, necessary for all good leaders. — Rush Limbaugh

2. I am confident that nobody… will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself. — Nelson Mandela

3. If you could leave your selfishness, you would see how you’ve been torturing your soul. — Rumi

4. Selfishness is one of the most destructive forces in man that is why life demands for its death. — Sunday Adelaja

5. Are you willing to nourish your heart with love — then your selfishness will starve to death.

6. Neither your position in society, nor power, nor dignity, nor selfishness, nor even personal promotion should enslave you — Sunday Adelaja

7. Selfishness is never so exquisitely selfish as when it is on its knees. … Self turns what would otherwise be a pure and powerful prayer into a weak and ineffective one. — A. W. Tozer

8. It is not selfishness or unselfishness that distinguishes love from non–love — it is the aim of the action.

9. Arrogance and selfishness are not the only reasons behind our loneliness, but most often we used to be alone because of them. — M.F. Moonzajer

10. I like to think that my arrogance, impetuosity, impatience, selfishness and greed are the qualities that make me the lovable chap I am. — Richard Hammond

11. Bravery is not an act of intelligence — it is just selfishness and stupidity.

12. Selfishness, control, and fear will break almost any relationship. Generosity, freedom, and love will create the most beautiful relationship: an ongoing romance. — Miguel Ruiz

13. The seers call him wise] whose every attempt is free, without any desire for gain, without any selfishness. — Swami Vivekananda

14. It is not selfishness or unselfishness that distinguishes love from non–love — it is the aim of the action.

15. Personal importance, or taking things personally, is the maximum expression of selfishness because we make the assumption that everything is about me. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

16. It is not selfishness or unselfishness that distinguishes love from non–love — it is the aim of the action.

17. There ain’t nothing but one thing wrong with every one of us and that’s selfishness. — Will Rogers

18. Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity. — William Howard Taft

19. Think about yourself because selfishness is everywhere — helda omar

20. And because of our selfishness, we will be condemned to the worst torture humankind ever invented for itself: loneliness. — Paulo Coelho

21. Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism. — Sri Aurobindo

22. Twin–sister of Religion, Selfishness. — P B Shelley

23. Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully. — Richard Bach

24. Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. — Martin Luther King

25. Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

26. Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism. — Sri Aurobindo

27. In contrast to the path of selfishness, there is no room for road rage on the straight and narrow way. — Neal A. Maxwell

28. Cats aren’t as friendly as they appear: fur, teeth, instinct, selfishness and cunning. Essentially they’re just big rats. — Richard House, The Kills

29. …and as a result yet today we are unable to distinguish between sympathy and selfishness. — M.H. Rakib, The Cavalier

30. Just like self–interest is not selfishness, well, confidence is not a negative. Confidence is not an off–putting thing. It’s, in fact, necessary for all good leaders. — Rush Limbaugh

31. Think about yourself because selfishness is everywhere — helda omar

32. Cats aren’t as friendly as they appear: fur, teeth, instinct, selfishness and cunning. Essentially they’re just big rats. — Richard House, The Kills

33. Thus worshiping, serving, studying, praying, each in its own way squeezes selfishness out of us; pushes aside our preoccupations with the things of the world. — Neal A. Maxwell

34. Turkey, Japan do great work because they can keep under control their little personal selfishness, egoism, jealousy, etc. when they get down to work. — Sri Aurobindo

35. Jealousy is an evil which grows in the womb of ego and is nourished by selfishness and attachment. — Swami Rama

36. It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures. — Robert Greene, Mastery

37. Neither your position in society, nor power, nor dignity, nor selfishness, nor even personal promotion should enslave you — Sunday Adelaja

38. Our selfishness will condemn us to the worst suffering that we ourselves have invented–loneliness. — Paulo Coelho

39. Selfishness creates greed and greed destroys the soul. — Zarina Bibi

40. The seers call him wise] whose every attempt is free, without any desire for gain, without any selfishness. — Swami Vivekananda

41. Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society. — E. O. Wilson

42. To a vampire, there is only selfishness. — Thomm Quackenbush, Danse Macabre (Night’s Dream, #2)

43. The common trait of all evil is nothing other than egoism… Basically all human evil comes from what we call the selfishness. — Rudolf Steiner

44. It is not selfishness or unselfishness that distinguishes love from non–love; it is the aim of the action. — M. Scott Peck

45. Our actual enemy is not any force exterior to ourselves, but our own crying weaknesses, our cowardice, our selfishness, our hypocrisy, our purblind sentimentalism. — Sri Aurobindo

46. Milton has carefully marked in his Satan the intense selfishness, the alcohol of egotism, which would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

47. Bravery is not an act of intelligence — it is just selfishness and stupidity.

48. Just like self–interest is not selfishness, well, confidence is not a negative. Confidence is not an off–putting thing. It’s, in fact, necessary for all good leaders. — Rush Limbaugh

49. If your prayer is selfish the answer will be something that will rebuke your selfishness. You may not recognize it as having come at all but it is sure to be there. — William Temple

50. We are vulnerable if we can be taken by a wave of emotion, invaded by an invidious impulse, roughed up by resentment, or engulfed by a surge of selfishness. — Neal A. Maxwell

Conclusion

In conclusion, selfishness can be a good or bad thing. It can be a sign of strength and resilience, or it can be a sign of arrogance and entitlement. It is up to us to decide how we use our selfishness to benefit or harm ourselves and those around us. Ultimately, understanding our own selfishness and learning to use it in a healthy way is the best way to ensure that we make the most out of our lives.