Quotes About Selflessness

Strength is for service, not status

Yes, forget your weakness, whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism, it is selfishness after. all, for it is a dwelling on self. Forget your weakness; and remember your strength.

Selfless service alone gives the needed strength and courage to awaken the sleeping humanity in one's heart.

Many people despise those who spend their health, strength and money for the salvation of others, and call them mad. And yet it is they who will save many and be saved themselves.

We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.

Even the least work done for others awakens the power within; even thinking the least good of others gradually instills into the heart the strength of a lion.

All I need is the power to be able to protect my comrades. So long as I can have the strength to do that, I don't care if I'm weaker than everyone in the world.

Like Jesus we belong to the world living not for ourselves but for others. The joy of the Lord is our strength.

There's only few people who have strength to honor someone's achievement without envy.

If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them.

Humility enforces where neither virtue nor strength can prevail, nor reason.

Sometimes you have to take the focus off of you and put it on someone else and it's funny what you can accomplish and how much strength you really have.

Selfless action is a source of strength.

It's one of the secrets of strength: We're so much more likely to find it in the service of others than in service to ourselves.

Spiritual strength frequently comes through selfless service.

They are not kidding when they say that mothers are strong women. We need to be strong in more ways than our children will ever know.

When people start serving together, they forgot about all their stress, [...] all their own problems. They start focusing on someone else's.

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, What's in it for me?

To do more for the world than the world does for you - that is success.

Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

Yet one more item is needed to complete success, and that is the rendering of service to others in the community. Without this the mere satisfaction of selfish desire does not reach the top notch.

Take a moment to think about your answer to this question: Am I prepared to have great success and not get any credit for it?

If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.