Noun
The quality or state of being selfish; exclusive regard to one's own interest or happiness; that supreme self-love or self-preference which leads a person to direct his purposes to the advancement of his own interest, power, or happiness, without regarding those of others.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIt is folly to abstain all day long from food, but fail to abstain from sin and selfishness. John Chrysostom
Selfishness doesn't consist in a love to yourself, but in a big degree of such love. Aristotle
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to. Oscar Wilde
Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully. Richard Bach
Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race. William Ewart Gladstone