Selflessness Quotes

Selflessness Quote of the day

The greatest gift you can ever give another person is your own happiness

Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.

A dog has one aim in life... to bestow his heart.

Almost every sinful action ever committed can be traced back to a selfish motive. It is a trait we hate in other people but justify in ourselves.

Whenever you're working towards something greater than yourself, it's almost a selflessness that the Lord delights in when you're serving your teammate or your friend or your sister in Christ.

For your kindness, I'm in debt to you. For your selflessness, my admiration.

Even when we speak of selflessness, the mind goes to "me." We think, "I'm selfless," but everything is selfless.

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

But to mean it when I say that I want my life to count for His glory is to drive a stake through the heart of self - a painful and determined dying to me that must be a part of every day I live.

Our compassion and acts of selflessness take us to the deeper truths.

...there is power in self-sacrifice.

Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfillment.

You will have to make up for the smallness of your size by your courage and selfless devotion to duty, for it is not life that matters, but the courage, fortitude and determination you bring to it.

Selflessness is like waiting in a hospital In a badly-fitting suit on a cold wet morning. Selfishness is like listening to good jazz With drinks for further orders and a huge fire.

Your love is as stable as you are: It's not about how good a person makes you feel, but rather what good you can do for them.

I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different.

Selflessness. It should be the basis of every relationship. If a person truly cares about you, they'll get more pleasure from the way they make you feel, rather than the way you make them feel.

When selflessness is seen in objects, the seed of cyclic existence is destroyed.

Selflessness. Humility. Truthfulness. These are the three marks of an honorable man.

Cultivate a sympathetic heart, humility in dealings, and selflessness in action. If these are practiced with earnestness and sincerity, then you will win the race of life.

I've learned that selflessness is a practice, not a place; a journey much more than a destination.

Courage is inseparable from love and leads to what may arguably be the noblest of all warrior virtues: selflessness.

Many of the qualities that come so effortlessly to dogs - loyalty, devotion, selflessness, unflagging optimism, unqualified love - can be elusive to humans.

Each and every object in Nature teaches us something. Renunciation and selflessness are the greatest lessons to learn from Nature.

The greatest surprise of human evolution may be that the highest form of selfishness is selflessness.

Desire is the root of selfishness; clear your heart of desire and be selfless. Selflessness is the key to inner peace.

God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself.

To love without need or without expectation of restitution, that is how we ought to love.

We are to give (and take) true love without falling into the narcissistic habit of only trying to take it in.

I always tell my kids to cut a sandwich in half right when you get it, and the first thought you should have is somebody else. You only ever need half a burger.

Mostly, he taught me about friendship and selflessness and, above all else, unwavering loyalty.

If the selflessness of phenomena is analyzed and if this analysis is cultivated, it causes the effect of attaining nirvana. through no other cause does one come to peace.

Trustful people are the pure at heart, as they are moved by the zeal of their own trustworthiness.

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

It is difficult for a fool's habits to change to selflessness.

Love your country, not for her power or wealth, but for her selflessness and her idealism.

Charity is the pure love of Christ. Let's bring it down for us lay folk to understand. Selflessness, patience. . . . a great definition. . . Charity: The ability to love the sinner and hate the sin.

If the entire world sought to make itself worthy of happiness rather than make itself happy, then the entire world would be happy.

You can be yourself without pursuing yourself. Have you ever seen a dog chase his own tail? He just runs in circles.

Love is selflessness, Self is lovelessness.

When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again.

The more we cling to virtues like humility, selflessness, modesty, and purity, the more beautiful we become - not only in His eyes, but also in the eyes of others. You can't airbrush that.

That, however, is - mediocrity, though it be called moderation.

I have been wounded altogether twenty times; eleven of these wounds were received at Northfield.

Love is selflessness and self-fullness; it can only be known deeply with an open, vulnerable heart.

I am proposing to create another kind of business, based on "selflessness" that is in all of us. I am calling it social business.

Love ever your neighbour as yourselves - but first be such as love themselves.

The hatred and cruelty which have their source in selfishness are ineffectual things compared with the venom and ruthlessness born of selflessness.

Chris: I don't know why it is, but every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back because other people will suffer.

In india, it's hard not to have Gandhi as a hero. To give up everything - including power and money - and to live for his countrymen, that beats everything else. He's a role model of selflessness.