Quotes About Selflessness

And learn the luxury of doing good.

Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.

I want people to remember me as someone whose life has been helpful to humanity.

Grant me courage to serve others; For in service there is true life.

Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.

the deeper one is drawn into God, the more one must 'go out of oneself'; that is, one must go to the world in order to carry the divine life into it.

Heroes do extraordinary things. What I did was not an extraordinary thing. It was normal.

Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.

Most people are concerned only with what they can get from the world, but it is what we are able to give to others that determines the quality of our life

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

I go out to preach with two propositions in mind. First, every person ought to give his life to Christ. Second, whether or not anyone else gives him his life, I will give him mine.

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Life is not about winning the race. Life is about finishing the race, and how many people we can all help finish this race. How we can start being kinder to each other

In my opinion, better far it be To destroy vanity within my life Than to destroy my life in vanity.

From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.

The greatest thing about having a child is putting yourself second in your own life. It's a massive gift to be able to say you're not the most important person to yourself.

Everything added to her and everything taken away had led to that moment and from her perch she had radiated love for every animal she could not help, with nothing left over for any human being.

We were meant to be focused on our purpose, and "anything personal should be left behind." Names belonged to where we had come from, not to who we were while embedded in Area X.

she said not a word because to say anything—anything at all—would be to humiliate him, and she cared more about him than that. And it cost her nothing.

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En ocasiones las personas ofrecen su luz pero esta parpadea y es extremadamente tenue, porque nunca antes se ha ocupado nadie de ellas. Porque han dado demasiado de sí mismos y ya no les queda nada.

It is a noteworthy fact that the three highest officers in rank, and whose fame stands unchallenged either for efficiency or zeal, were all so indifferent to any question of personal interest, that they had received their appointment before they were aware it was to be conferred. Each brought from the Army of the United States an enviable reputation, such as would have secured to him, had he chosen to remain in it, after the war commenced, any position his ambition could have coveted.

Los pastores deben sacrificar sus aspiraciones personales de grandeza y deshacerse de todo deseo de convertirse en una celebridad cristiana y estar dispuesto (si es necesario) a ministrar en la oscuridad.

1. Self-Sacrifice (subjugation out of guilt) 2. Submissiveness (subjugation out of fear)