quote!!! who wrote this quote?

Question

does anybody know who wrote this and where they're from?? "if i am not for myself, who will be for me? and if i am only for myself, who am i? and if not now-when?" plz tell me where u got it 2. THX!!!

Answer 1

"If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, then what am I? And if not now, when?"

-Rabbi Hillel, recorded in Pirkei Avot (Ethics of the Fathers [Mishnah 14], a tractate of the Mishnah)