(adjective) Holding one's own self-interest as the standard for decision making.
"Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you."
"How narrow we selfish conceited creatures are in our sympathies! How blind to the rights of all the rest of creation!"
"The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves."
"We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we're looking in all directions except at the thing we want, which is probably why we haven't found it."
"Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure."
"He who is faultless does not care for the opinion of others."
"As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so sex with its joy clears and sharpens the vision."
"Preserving your own happiness isn't selfish."
"Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another."
"To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others."
"It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others."
"To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance."