1. “Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.”

– Oscar Wilde

2. “Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect.”

– George Sand

3. “If you have no confidence in yourself, you are twice defeated in the race of life.”

– Marcus Garvey

4. “Man—every man—is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others; he must live for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself; he must work for his rational self-interest, with the achievement of his own happiness as the highest moral purpose of his life.”

– Ayn Rand

5. “People with low self-esteem protect themselves by not taking risks. High self-esteem gives you the power of confidence to take chances.”

– Dan Peña

6. “Self-care is not selfish. You cannot serve from an empty vessel.”

– Eleanor Brownn

7. “To say ‘I love you’ one must first be able to say the ‘I.’”.

– Ayn Rand

8. “The drive to please others, to be a people pleaser, is at the root of so much suffering in the world.”

– Dan Peña

9. “People call you selfish when they cannot manipulate you into doing what they want.”

– Imelda Egan

10. “Irrational self-confience is far more useful than reasonable self-doubt.”

– Matthew James