Quotes about Selflessness

The true leader serves. Serves people. Serves their best interests, and in so doing will not always be popular, may not always impress. But because true leaders are motivated by loving concern, rather than a desire for personal glory, they are willing to pay the price.

Following Christ's example, we have to learn to give ourselves completely. Anything else is not enough.

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

Being a mother is the hardest job on earth.

If we are serious about loving someone, we have to surrender all the desires within us to manipulate the relationship.

It is only by frequent deaths of ourselves and our self-centered desires that we can come to live more fully.

We should never desire to be over others. Instead, we ought to be servants who are submissive to every human being for God's sake.

What has made me successful is the ability to surrender my plans, dreams and goals to a power that's greater than other people and greater than myself.

For many, living a Christlike life every day may be even more difficult than laying down one's life.

Almost without exception the most beautiful, selfless people I've met are ones who've experienced personal tragedy.

For a moment sitting there above the city, i imagined life outside of narcissism. I wondered how beautiful it might be to think of others as more important than myself. I wondered how peaceful it might be not to be pestered by that childish voice that wants for pleasure and attention. I wondered how it would be like not to live in a house of mirrors, everywhere i go being reminded of myself.

I heard once that real love doesn't ask what is in it for me; it just gives unconditionally. It just tries to take the weight out of somebody else's pack, lessen his load, and if it gets reciprocated, that's great, but that isn't what you did it for.