I recognize that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognize that you can't be happy if you only care about yourself at the expense of other people.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.
Being selfish to me means that you have to look out for yourself and you don't have to sacrifice.
Selfishness is one of the more common faces of pride. 'How everything affects me' is the center of all that matters - self-conceit, self-pity, worldly self-fulfillment, self-gratification, and self-seeking.
I'm not selfish. I am where I am because I have worked very hard and have always done my job.
We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others.
I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness.
It's good to be selfish. But not so self-centered that you never listen to other people.
Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
Now is the one time in my life I can be 100% selfish. I'm not married; I don't have kids; I can focus on my career.
I'm not selfish at all.