Selfish vs. Selfless

Holding one's own self-interest as the standard for decision making.

Having regard for oneself above others’ well-being.

Caring supremely or unduly for one's self; regarding one's own comfort, advantage, etc., in disregard, or at the expense, of those of others.

Example: ‘They judge of things according to their own private appetites and selfish passions.’; ‘In that throng of selfish hearts untrue.’;

Believing or teaching that the chief motives of human action are derived from love of self.

Example: ‘Hobbes and the selfish school of philosophers.’;

concerned chiefly or only with yourself;

Example: ‘Selfish men were...trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights’;

Having, exhibiting or motivated by no concern for oneself but for others; unselfish.

Example: ‘In a selfless act of gratitude for saving his mother's life, Peter committed to giving money to his local breast cancer charity each year for the rest of his life.’;

Having no regard to self; unselfish.

Example: ‘Lo now, what hearts have men! they never mountAs high as woman in her selfless mood.’;

showing unselfish concern for the welfare of others

concerned more with the needs and wishes of others than with one's own; unselfish

Example: ‘an act of selfless devotion’;