Selfless Quotes

The greatest dividends in life are those that we give away.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Pray for others because others are selflessly praying for you as well.

~ Gift Gugu Mona

Love is a combination of virtues. The amount you receive from someone is based on the percentage of those virtues learned and applied. Unhappiness in a relationship is not a lack of love, but a lack of virtues in the percentages your significant other needs.

~ Shannon L. Alder

In some rare cases, a friendship between two people benefits both of them, and what’s more, in some rarer cases, it benefits both of them equally.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Some of our friends are our friends only because we used to be friends.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Its really hard to recall the day you became friends with special people.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Females and boys are the only creatures that propose others for friendship. As for the rest of us, friendship sort of just happens.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Don’t be selfish in life, pass the ball. Winners in life’s game are people who demonstrate that they are not greedy when they have abundant of supply. They share freely provided they have it! That defines the true state of a purposeful person.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Miki-san... do you truly want that person's dream to come true? Or is it that you want to be that person's savior for making that dream come true? If you're going to fulfill someone else's dream, that's the time when it's most important to be sure you know your own wish. The two might seem the same, but they're entirely different.

~ Magica Quartet

The pleasure or the benefit that the object of our deed derives from it is every now and then greater or even more important than the one we derive from the deed.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

It is humanly impossible to be selfless. As a matter of fact, human beings are inherently selfish.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We all have a grain of god in us. We do get opportunities to realize it, when moments in life demand selfless deeds of compassion from us. But we often squander them.

~ Ashok Kallarakkal

She wondered if it counted as being good if you did the good thing for purely selfish reasons. Probably not, but who cared. What was important was what you did, not how you felt.

~ Emily Gould

For the case that one thinks he has plateaued in life, God has already set yet another peak for him to reach: and a much more challenging peak than his own, one that which is to serve others.

~ Criss Jami

It's not that people are mean to each other, it's just that they haven't forgotten the times when being selfless brought them loneliness & pain.

~ Saurabh Sharma

True biblical love is a selfless commitment of one’s body, soul, and spirit to the betterment of the other person.

~ Jim George

True biblical love is a selfless commitment of one's body, soul, and spirit to the betterment of the other person.

~ Jim George

It is sad to see people do things without putting their soul and heart into it.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Of course love is blind, it keeps me blind to myself.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Self-serving biases and self-centered agendas are cotton jammed in the ears of our conscience. Even if truth shouts, we can’t hear it.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

A true legacy is established over a lifetime and relates to what a human being does for others, not for himself.

~ Bill Courtney

If the baser instinct of rampant self-preservation adamantly refuses to surrender itself to the infinitely greater call of self-sacrifice, in attempting to save our lives we will have in reality completely destroyed our lives.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

A pure love is a selfless love, but can desire ever be selfless?

~ John Dufresne

As you can see marriage is about putting away selfishness and taking on the concept of teamwork.

~ Jim George

A mature person reaps joy in the commonplace acts of living, appreciates the serenity of just being, while balancing the responsibilities that come naturally about when deeply immersed in family and community affairs. Directing their attention outward, assisting other people in their troubled times, while denying themselves the indulgence of self-absorption frees a person’s bidding mind from a jumble of discordant thoughts, wants, and unholy bequests.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Forgiveness requires a sacrifice of pride. A humbling of the spirit. An increase of selfless love. A time when you allow others' feelings to be more important than your own.

~ Ann H. Gabhart

Never mind the rule, 'If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all,' because that's not the route to take. Instead, look into the mirror and say those things to yourself. Then yell those things at yourself. And multiply how much that hurts by 10. And decide, should I still say these things? And walk away.

~ Rachel Eovacious

Maturity is when you're able to say, 'It's not just them. It's me.

~ Criss Jami

A man who loves others based solely on how they make him feel, or what they do for him, is really not loving others at all - but loving only himself.

~ Criss Jami

Making oneself large involves intentionally making oneself small.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

There is no middle ground for the selfless and the selfish.

~ Tara Estacaan

Your ability to see will never broaden when you only see yourself.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Although I’m seldom aware enough to see it, the greater cost regarding that which I possess was not what I paid for it, but what someone along the way sacrificed so that I might have the opportunity to pay for it.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Love does not dwell on how much one receives in return. If there is ever any balance in love, it is in a contest of who can love who more.

~ Criss Jami

i loved her, for she was beauty dressed in a selfless personality and the skin of unconditional love. A voice of truthful melody and eyes holding a vision so large, maybe, just maybe she was born to change the world.

~ Nikki Rowe

While real sacrifice is committed to the result, it relishes the effort

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Christmas is a bold act of emboldening sacrifice and the most selfless gift ever granted the rebellious lot that we are.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

And who would dare write their own death into the script so that the rest of the characters in the tale might live? God of course.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

A hero is someone who is selfless.

~ Mark Andrew Poe

We cannot expect to lift others unless we stand on higher ground ourselves.

~ Gordon B. Hinckley