Quotes about Selflessness
When impatience and irritability are entirely put away, are finally offered up on the altar of unselfishness, then is realised and enjoyed the blessedness of a strong, quiet, and peaceful mind.
— James Allen
Give up that narrow cramped self that seeks to render all things subservient to its own petty interests, and you will enter into the company of the angels, into the very heart and essence of universal Love.
— James Allen
I have never regarded myself as a hero, but Tenzing undoubtedly was.
— Edmund Hillary
What you seek for others you find for yourself.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Don't speak thoughtlessly.Don't worry unnecessarily.Don't work half-heartedly.Don't spend recklessly.Don't give begrudgingly.Don't act self-centeredly.Don't live short-sightedly.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Have gracious thoughts of your neighbors, kind thoughts of your friends, loving thoughts of your family, and humble thoughts of yourself.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Pray for your needs, not your greed.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
When I was in love there was somebody in the world who was more important than me, and that, given all that happened at the fall of man, is a miracle, like something God forgot to curse.
— Donald Miller
Hail to the man who went through life always helping others, knowing no fear, and to whom aggressiveness and resentment are alien. Such is the stuff of which the great moral leaders are made.
— Albert Einstein
There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
— Henry Ward Beecher