Quotes about Selflessness
If you can be kind and considerate for one day, then you can be for another. It won't cost you a penny in the world. Begin today.
— Dale Carnegie
Every day, try to help someone who can't reciprocate your kindness.
— John Wooden
When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by others, let them reflect how little they have contributed to the happiness of others.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
Some show their kindness to the poor by employing them in their kitchens. Would they not be kinder if they employed themselves there?
— Henry David Thoreau
I prefer to make a mistake because I am too kind than to perform miracles without any kindness.
— Mother Teresa
The merit of persons is to be no rule of our charity, but we are to do acts of kindness to those that least deserve it.
— William Law
The richest gifts we can bestow are the least marketable. We hate the kindness which we understand.
— Henry David Thoreau
We are not here to enjoy the things on earth, but to pass them around. The people who do it are the happiest people you know!
— George H. W. Bush
It is a luxury to put our interests first. It is an honor to put the interests of others before our own.
— Simon Sinek
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
— Lao Tzu
If your suffering splashes others, those around you, those for whom you represent a reason to live, then you must kill it, choke it.
— Elie Wiesel
If God gave it to me, we say it's mine. I can do what I want with it. No. The truth is that it is ours to thank Him for and ours to offer back to Him, ours to relinquish, ours to lose, ours to let go of - if we want to find our true selves, if we want real Life, if our hearts are set on glory.
— Elisabeth Elliot