Quotes About Selflessness

To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.

You serve a greater cause. Your life is not yours to throw away (Magnus Bane)

My life is only important if i can help plenty of people

The measure of your life will not be in what you accumulate, but in what you give away.

We may never be martyrs but we can die to self, to sin, to the world, to our plans and ambitions. That is the significance of baptism; we died with Christ and rose to new life.

Missionary life is simply a chance to die.

The leap is made by dropping vanity over knowledge and by a willingness to become nothing in order to become everything.

Self-deprecating or arrogant, it's all selfish. Hard as it is, life's better when you spend more time on the rest of the world

If you recall the happiest moments in your life, they are all from when you were doing something for somebody else.

You never know when a helping hand will change another person's entire life.

You can only do two things with your life: give it away or throw it away.

He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.

The purpose of our life is to help others through it.

True Christianity is a life of sacrifice. It requires that in everything we live for the Lord and others, not ourselves.

Again the greatest use of a human was to be useful. Not to consume, not to watch, but to do something for someone else that improved their life, even for a few minutes.

All the other pleasures of life seem to wear out, but the pleasure of helping others in distress never does.

You will have to make up for the smallness of your size by your courage and selfless devotion to duty, for it is not life that matters, but the courage, fortitude and determination you bring to it.

Taking up my cross means a life voluntarily surrendered to God.

One of the deepest principles of life and leadership: it's not about you.

What is the ultimate purpose of life? It's to give.

The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.

It isn't enough to love people because they're good to you, or because in some way or other you're going to get something by it. We have to love because we love loving.

If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path.

Every man is indeed bound to do what he can to promote the good of others, and a man who is of no use to anyone is strictly worthless.