Quotes About Selflessness

There's a huge difference between love and need. Someone who needs you will put themselves first. Someone who loves you will put you first.

They saw how their Master denied himself many of the comforts and pleasures of the world and became a servant among them. They saw how the things they cherished—physical satisfaction, popular acclaim, prestige—he refused; while the things which they sought to escape—poverty, humiliation, sorrow, and even death—he accepted willingly for their sake.

We must eliminate nagging with its complaining and contentious spirit because it focuses attention on self rather than on the other person.

Vanye: You're asking me to kill you. Luthiel: I'm asking you to save her.

As it is more blessed to give than receive, so it must be more blessed to receive than to give back.

He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others.

The hands that help are better far than lips that pray.

Waktu untuk berbahagia itu sekarang, Tempat untuk berbahagia itu di sini, Cara untuk berbahagia ialah dengan membuat orang lain berbahagia.

As Warren Buffett once said, "Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

I ask you to consider that the goal of your life is not just to find love; it is to be love. Love is the real work of your life.

When a man falls in love suddenly his whole centre changes. Up to that point he has probably referred everything to himself--considered things from his own point. When he falls in love the whole thing is shifted; he becomes a part of the circumference--perhaps even the whole circumference; someone else becomes the centre.

Harry S. Truman said, "It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us. – Ephesians 5:2

He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again. – 2 Corinthians 5:15

Never state, in an agreement, what you want out of the deal before stating what the other party is going to get, because the other guy doesn't give a hoot about what you want. All he's interested in is what's in it for him. This is especially true of people who insist that "in order for a deal to work out, everyone has to be satisfied." Forget such babble; it's a fairy tale that will only cause you to drop your guard and lose some fingers in the process.)

I gave my life to my family, I wish to give Robert what is left of me.

In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be the gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.

great poetry marches along the path that leads to abundance of life, and not to a feeble and degenerate egotism. The

I know that if everyone is a hero, then no one truly is. I concede the term is thrown around far too casually.

People are always doing things for my sake and strangely enough, I'm the one who suffers for it.

His days as a globe-trotting epidemiologist might be over—Dr. Levinson had made that perfectly clear—but his efforts to save Lantos, and now Nika, had reminded him of the satisfaction to be had from healing just one person. What was that old Hebrew proverb he'd once heard Dr. Levinson herself say—"If you save one life, it's the same as saving the whole world." Right now the only life he wanted to save, even more than his own, was Nika's.

Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 percent Of everything you think, And of everything you do, Is for yourself — And there isn't one. – Wei Wu Wei

Forgiving someone who has wronged you is actually a selfish act rather than a selfless one.

Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present.