Quotes About Selflessness

No painter's brush, nor poet's pen In justice to her fame Has ever reached half high enough To write a mother's name.

I want you to lay down your life, Perkins. We need a futile gesture at this stage. It will raise the whole tone of the war.

What you call a hero, I call just doing my job.

No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.

When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

For men to search their own glory is not glory.

He saved others; himself he cannot save.

Life is never so busy that there is no time to serve.

From all blindness of heart, from pride, vainglory, and hypocrisy; from envy, hatred, and malice, and all uncharitableness,Good Lord, deliver us.

Whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

The greater thou art, the more humble thyself.

Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth.

He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack.

It's good to be blessed. It's better to be a blessing.

Volunteers are love in motion!

We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee.

Though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up.

Consider that I labored not for myself only, but for all them that seek learning.

He that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.

The poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb.

Whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.