Quotes about Selflessness
That best portion of a good man's life,His little, nameless, unremembered actsOf kindness and of love.
— William Wordsworth
If you think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself.
— Woodrow Wilson
No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.
— Woodrow Wilson
No thoughtful man ever came to the end of his life, and had time and a little space of calm from which to look back upon it, who did not know and acknowledge that it was what he had done unselfishly and for others, and nothing else, that satisfied him in the retrospect, and made him feel that he had played the man.
— Woodrow Wilson
Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end and prefer the interest of mankind to any narrow interest of their own.
— Woodrow Wilson
You are here to enrich the world and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
— Woodrow Wilson
Love is not something you feel. It's something you do.
— David Wilkerson
Father Break my heart for what breaks yoursGive me open hands and open doorsPut your light in my eyes and let me seeThat my own little world is not about me
— Matthew West
Anonymously perform acts of kindness, expecting nothing in return-not even a thank you.
— Wayne Dyer
It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That's why we're here, after all, to help others.
— Carol Burnett
Act with kindness but do not expect gratitude.
— Confucius
May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail to respond to the needs of others with kindness and compassion.
— Thomas Jefferson