Benjamin Franklin Quotes

A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.

I don't focus on anyone but myself.

His fundamental interest throughout his life was himself.

I never really look at other people; I just worry about myself.

I don't really give a damn about too much other than myself.

We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity.

If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.

Relationships are give-and-take, and when you're a tennis player, you're certainly not giving. You have to be self-absorbed. It has to be about you.

It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

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

To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell.

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

The only one that matters is me. I am the only one that matters.

People are really exercised about one particular thing, and that is themselves. They will bore you endlessly with their broken hearts.

It's all about me, no matter who I'm fighting.

I am a greedy, selfish actor, and for me, my role is important.

Selfishness is the making a man's self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doeth.

Sordid selfishness doth contract and narrow our benevolence, and cause us, like serpents, to infold ourselves within ourselves, and to turn out our stings to the entire world besides.

I lived with the only continuity, day to day, of the me-me-me.

Strikers are egotists, selfish. We have to be.

I have been an actor for most of my life. When I started out, I didn't think about anything except what was good for me. Like many movie stars, I became all wrapped up in myself.

One, I never get sick of talking about myself.

Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.