Quotes about Selflessness
Happiness begins where selfishness ends.
— John Wooden
Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.
— John Wooden
The grace of Christ in the soul is developing traits of character that are the opposite of selfishness—traits that will refine, ennoble, and enrich the life.
— Ellen White
They brought ruin upon themselves by refusing to minister to others.
— Ellen White
There is no limit to the good you may do.
— Ellen White
We can receive of heaven's light only as we are willing to be emptied of self.
— Ellen White
When thou makest a dinner or a supper," Christ says, "call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompence be made thee. But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind: and thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.
— Ellen White
The completeness of Christian character is attained when the impulse to help and bless others springs constantly from within—when the sunshine of heaven fills the heart and is revealed in the countenance.—Christ's Object Lessons, pp. 383, 384.
— Ellen White
it is good for a man to do right, and to leave happiness to take care of itself...
— Ellen Glasgow
I should not want to live unless I could live to do some good to others.
— Ellen White
You should never take more than you give.
— Elton John
The great wisdom traditions of the world all recognize that the main impediment to living a life of meaning is being self-absorbed.
— Barbara Brown Taylor