Duke Ellington Quotes

Being selfish to me means that you have to look out for yourself and you don't have to sacrifice.

Look out for Number One. If you don't, no one else will.

I'm selfish.

There are times where you have to be selfish.

My rule is to save myself first.

Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality.

Man is essentially a selfish creature. The differences in the degree with which this developed are infinite.

I'm just selfish. I have to be for what I do.

I think most people act in their self-interest.

Of course, we are all egoists. Egoism is so much a part of our humanity.

I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost.

Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.

Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.

People always choose self-preservation over the greater good, most of the time, with the belief that self-preservation is the greater good.

Selfishness is a quality and not necessarily a bad thing.

Fighting, you have to be selfish.

I just look at what is best for me.

And if you love only yourself, you will serve only yourself. And you will have only yourself.

That what appears to be egoism so often isn't.

A strong egoism is a protection.

I am not Captain Save-A-Ho; I can only save one at a time, and that's me!

Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.

That knave preserves the pearl in his purse who considers all people purse-cuts.

In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.

For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.