Quotes about Selflessness
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
— Mark Twain
It is better to give than receive- especially advice.
— Mark Twain
When we come to Christ, we're no longer the most important person in the world to us; Christ is. Instead of living only for ourselves, we have a higher goal: to live for Jesus.
— Billy Graham
Once you become dedicated to a cause, personal security is not the goal. What will happen to you personally does not matter. My cause, my race, is worth dying for.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and, of all loving women, there is no such slave as a mother.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Love is taking a few steps backward (maybe even more)...to give way to the happiness of the person you love.
— Winnie the Pooh
The giving of love is an education in itself.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
God doesn't look at how much we do, but with how much love we do it.
— Mother Teresa
Without love, benevolence becomes egotism.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love is the great conqueror of lust. Being in love is far better than either common sensuality or cold self-centeredness.
— CS Lewis
Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary What we need is Love without getting tired.
— Mother Teresa
Love never says, 'I love you, do you love me?' It always says; 'I love you and that is all'.
— Dan Mohler