Samuel Johnson Quotes

It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.

Of all the nonsense that twists the world, the concept of 'altruism' is the worst. People do what they want to, every time. If it pains them to make a choice - if the choice looks like a 'sacrifice' - you can be sure that it is no nobler than the discomfort caused by greediness... the necessity of deciding between two things you want when you can't have both.

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

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

Somebody says, 'Well, I can't be concerned about other people. About the best I can do is to take care of myself' Well, then you will always be poor.

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

In short, selfishness is the opposite of love.

Human history is the sad result of each one looking out for himself.

Selfishness is the only real atheism.

Man serves the interests of no creature except himself.

We always think of our own profit, but not in connection to others.

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

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.

But I felt that most of us in the world today gave priority to our personal interests.

It doesn't matter who wins if I don't. I only care if I win. I'm jealous of anyone else who wins.

The egoist is fooled by no ideals: he discards them or uses them, as may suit his own interest.

Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.

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 is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual.

I think most people act in their self-interest.

The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world.

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

When I was 20 or 21, I didn't... I won't say care about anything, but you're like in your own world - you made something that you always wanted to do, and then you kind of think only about your family and yourself.

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

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