Quotes about Selflessness

The sanyasa of the Gita is all work and yet no work.

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding. The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.

Leaders must always put their people before themselves. If you do that, your business will take care of itself.

Do you want to do something beautiful for God? There is a person who needs you. This is your chance.

Love suffers far more for the pains of the beloved than for its own pains.

But all true effort to help begins with self-humiliation: the helper must first humble himself under him he would help, and therewith must understand that to help does not mean to be a sovereign but to be a servant, that to help does not mean to be ambitious but to be patient, that to help means to endure for the time being the imputation that one is in the wrong and does not understand what the other understands.

According to the Bible, the antidote to materialism is generosity.

Before we can pray, 'Thy Kingdom come,' we must be willing to pray—'My kingdom go!

When Paul talked about his present situation, he did not discuss his personal discomfort. He was not occupied with the inconvenience that imprisonment had caused him. His concern was for the gospel and its advance.

Love without distinction. Love without calculation. Love without procrastination. Just love.

When we are asked to do something that inconveniences us, we are to take on a servant's attitude. Servanthood takes great strength, much greater strength than demanding our own way. And it is that strength which will cause people to notice something different in our lives (Mathew 5:41).