Selflessness Quotes

The most benevolent souls are the one's who have had to drink some of life's worst poisons, yet protected others in their lives from ever having to taste them.

~ José N. Harris

Not everyone who has helped or is helping you wanted or wants to help you.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Sacrifice is a noun in my vocabulary that should be a verb in my life.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Contrary to popular opinion, we are all a vast brotherhood of human beings whose very survival hinges not on what we keep, but on what we give. And it is in the giving that we not only survive to live another day, but we thrive to celebrate another day.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Serenity of mind produces an expanding awareness that fosters creative selflessness, which in turn enables us to experience unabashed harmony communing in rhythmical bliss with nature.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Put love in everything you do. If you can't, then maybe you shouldn't do.

~ Carina Aguilar

I think that she is everything I have ever loved about our religion distilled down to fit into one person, everything about the faith that is both selfless and responsible.

~ Ann Patchett

Loving others isn't about us at all. And until that sinks in, we'll never be able to love the way Christ truly loved.

~ Jarrid Wilson

[Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner belonged to] that small army of brave people who made it their duty, without thought of themselves or hope or expectation of reward, to strive for unpopular causes.[Chapman Cohen on the death of noted freethinker and peace advocate Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner]

~ Chapman Cohen

A humanitarian seldom makes a good lover. For a lover’s world revolves around their lover, while a humanitarian’s world revolves around the world.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

You have a right to perform your prescribed duties, but you are not entitled to the fruits of your actions.

~ Bhagavad Gita

Day and night. Give and take. But never to die. Each have their time.

~ Zechariah Barrett

We have no heart at seventeen. We think we do; we think we have been cursed with a holy, bloated thing that twitches at the name we adore, but it is not a heart because though it will forfeit anything in the world-the mind, the body, the future, even the last lonely hour it has-it will not sacrifice itself.

~ Andrew Sean Greer

Most of us love a non-self, or something extrinsic and apart from our inner life; but a mother's love during the time she is a flesh-and-blood ciborium is not for a non-self but for one that is her very self, a perfect example of charity and love which hardly perceives a separation. Motherhood then becomes a kind of priesthood. She brings God to man by preparing the flesh in which the soul will be implanted; she brings man to God in offering the child back again to the Creator.

~ Fulton J. Sheen

Doing things for yourself (self-preservation) are ok in in small doses and when necessary but over-burdening you life with your own self will weaken your heart, soul connectivity with others

~ Paul Isaacs

Wherever people gather for selfless ends, there is a vast augmentation of their individual capacities. Something wonderful, something momentous happens. An irresistible force begins to move, which, though we may not see it, is going to change our world.

~ Eknath Easwaran

It's when you're acting selflessly that you are at you bravest

~ Veronica Roth

If you are ready to trade the hollow self-made beauty of this world for the glorious Christ-built beauty of a set-apart young woman, this is where it all begins. Denying self, taking up your cross, and following the Lamb wherever He leads. In other words, letting go of all preoccupation with self: our comfort, our pleasure, our agenda, our popularity, our ability to gain the world's approval, even our own dreams and desires. And, as Paul did, treating all those things as rubbish for the excellence of the knowledge of Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings (Philippians 3:7-9).

~ Leslie Ludy

Paltry supply with capable means is one face of iniquity.

~ Andy Harglesis

Witnessing a selfless act brings tears to remind us how we should be treating others.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Love is a that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own...Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy

~ Robert A. Heinlein

Extravagant love, as in every generation before us, has been ridiculed and scorned. it is seen as wasteful and reckless overspending. But extravagant love, the offering of everything, the emptying of the pockets of our life, is the essence of true Christianity.

~ Eric Ludy

I’m convinced we have each been endowed with a beautiful heart. We may not always see it. We may not even believe it. But it’s a gift that came with birth and, every time we act selflessly, it grows a little.

~ Steve Goodier

Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.

~ Lloyd Alexander

Selfishness at the expense of others is bad. Self-care for the betterment of others is good.

~ Richie Norton

The terrible poverty of pride is that there is nothing that can be taken in selfishness which will exceed what is received when nothing is expected and everything is offered.

~ James Castleton

I won't be a slave to the past. I'll love where I choose.

~ Thomas Hardy

DeadPool reminds me for some other films which are sci-fi, like Selflessness and Mr.Nobody....But the speech is awful it must be fixed!

~ Deyth Banger

In searching for himself, he had come to understand that he was defined by selflessness

~ Soroosh Shahrivar

When a leader replaces the value of selfless service with selfish ambition they have officially regressed back into a boss.

~ Noel Dejesus