Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
I'm not selfish. I am where I am because I have worked very hard and have always done my job.
I'm not selfish at all.
Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.
When you go out there and do the things you're supposed to do, people view you as selfish.
There are points in your life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary.
There are selves too big for one person to contain. You cannot call them selfish. There is nothing -ish about such selves. They are the self, as it were, itself.
Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless.
Being selfish to me means that you have to look out for yourself and you don't have to sacrifice.