Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes

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

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

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

His fundamental interest throughout his life was himself.

I don't focus on anyone but myself.

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.

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

People are more interested in being visible than they are in loving other people.

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

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

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.

One, I never get sick of talking about myself.

A lot of comedians are selfish.

I was deaf and dumb and blind to all but me, myself and I.

If you are passionate only about yourself -that is the road to disaster.

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

I hate everything which is not in myself.

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.

I look back on my life and have to face the fact that I have been narcissistic and selfish.

me-firstism

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