Quotes About Selflessness

Pulling weeds and planting seeds. That's the story of life. We are individual lots on which either weeds of selfishness or fruit of the Holy Spirit grows and flourishes.

By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.

To achieve self actualization, do good things for other people that you would want to be done onto yourself

I would give my life a thousand times that God might not be offended.

The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To live a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You know, help others. But that's really the essence of the Christian faith.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Heroes are people who rise to the occasion and slip quietly away.

In a couple, sometimes, one or both people have to give up their personal life, dreams and ambitions for the good of the family.

Life is not a possession to be defended, but a gift to be shared.

The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself.

This is my child, this is my wealth: such thoughts are the preoccupations of fools. If we are unable to own even ourselves, why make such claims?

So long as you are ready to die for humanity, the life of your country is immortal.

Desmond O'Grady is one of the senior figures in Irish Literary life, exemplary in the way he has committed himself over the decades to the vocation of poetry and has lived selflessly for the art

In the game of life, when the final buzzer sounds, the only stat you carry with you is the number of assists you made.

While we may not be called to martyr our lives, we must martyr our way of life. We must put our selfish ways to death and march to a different beat. Then the world will see Jesus.

I want to save my people. That is the purpose of my life

Cowards live for the sake of living, but for heroes, life is a weapon, a thing to be spent, a gift to be given to the weak and the lost and the weary, even to the foolish and the cowardly.

I have sacrificed everything in my life that I consider precious to advance the political career of my husband.

If you think back over your experiences, the chances are that you will find the finest moments in your life were those when you completely forgot yourself.

Generosity, generosity, generosity, must be the beginning and ending of our life

The spiritual life is a call to action. But it is a call to ... action without any selfish attachment to the results.

We have two choices in life: One is to fulfill ourselves. The other is to take the time and energy that we would utilize in fulfilling ourselves and use it to make others happy.

Life wants you to serve something more than yourself. When you serve something more than yourself, you are served. It's the most ironic thing in the world.

To the truly benevolent mind, indeed, nothing is more satisfactory than to hear of a miser denying himself the necessaries of life a little too far and ridding us of his presence altogether.