Michel de Montaigne,

"I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself."

Frank Buchman,

"There is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed."

Ivan Turgenev

Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?

John Buchanan Robinson

There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.

George Eliot

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

George Eliot

The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.

Penelope Keith

Shyness is just egoism out of its depth.

W. Somerset Maugham

No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.

John Buchanan Robinson

In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.

Eugenio Montale

I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?

Erwin Schrodinger

For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.

Giorgos Seferis

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.

John Buchanan Robinson

But egoism is more than this. It is the realization by the individual that he is above all institutions and all formulas; that they exist only so far as he chooses to make them his own by accepting them.

Erwin Schrodinger

An animal that embarks on forming states without greatly restricting egoism will perish.