Quotes about Selflessness
Dare we care at all about current fashions if that means reducing our ability to help hungry neighbors? How many more luxuries should we buy for ourselves and our children when others are dying for lack of bread?
— Ron Sider
There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.
— Ronald Reagan
You can accomplish much if you don't care who gets the credit.
— Ronald Reagan
There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.
— Ronald Reagan
Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Compassion means to suffer with, but it doesn't mean to get lost in the suffering, so that it becomes exclusively one's own. I tend to do this, to replace the person for whom I am feeling compassion with myself.
— Madeleine L'Engle
But I wanted to do it for you," Mr. Murry said. "That's what every parent wants.
— Madeleine L'Engle
The Mother asks the sacrifice of love.
— Madeleine L'Engle
With all our human struggling for power we cannot heal ourselves, so God, with wondrous love, gives away power, gives away himself so that we may be healed.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Intercession means that we deliberately substitute God's interests in others for our natural sympathy with them.
— Oswald Chambers
That best portion of a good man's life— His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.
— Andrew Carnegie
Wealth is not to feed our egos, but to feed the hungry and to help people help themselves.
— Andrew Carnegie