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Quotes About Selflessness

The man who keeps busy helping the man below him won't have time to envy the man above him.
~ Henrietta Mears
Success is not built on what we accomplish for ourselves. Its foundation lies in what we do for others.
~ Danny Thomas
The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.
~ Aristotle
They serve best who give most of themselves. Self is forgotten by the one who serves, for such a one rejoices to see success coming to others through his or her efforts.
~ James Cash Penney
It is simply service that measures success.
~ George Washington Carver
We do not exist for ourselves.
~ Thomas Merton
To be successful you have to enjoy doing your best while at the same time contributing to something beyond yourself.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
I love the success of my teammates more than my individual achievements. I've just always cared more about that since I started playing.
~ LeBron James
Success may or may not mean that you've acquired a lot. It does mean that you have become a generous person.
~ Robert H. Schuller
The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving.
~ Mother Teresa
Most people think of success in terms of getting; success, however, begins in terms of giving.
~ Henry Ford
Success and all good things in life, start with a genuine concern for others.
~ Mike Vance
The way to achieve your own success is to be willing to help somebody else get it first.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
It is high time the ideal of success should be replaced with the ideal of service.
~ Albert Einstein
I have worked without thinking of myself. This is the largest factor in whatever success I have attained.
~ Amadeo Giannini
People first, then money, then things.
~ Suze Orman
The man who lives for himself is a failure; the man who lives for others has achieved true success.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Charity is the pure love of Christ. Let's bring it down for us lay folk to understand. Selflessness, patience. . . . a great definition. . . Charity: The ability to love the sinner and hate the sin.
~ Hyrum W. Smith
Think in terms of what's good for the other person and success will seek you out.
~ Mary Kay Ash
Show me success without ego!
~ Ivana Trump
It is more important to be of service than successful.
~ Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
No one understands that you have given everything. You must give more.
~ Antonio Porchia
Your intent is important. You will pull a very deep power when you are working not just for yourself, but you are working for your enlightenment and to aid others in their enlightenment.
~ Frederick Lenz
Success is about us. Significance is about others.
~ John C. Maxwell