Quotes About Selflessness

It is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people.

Volunteers do it for free.

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

Love someone who doesn't deserve it.

Be alert to give service. What counts a great deal in life is what we do for others.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything.

The beauty of life does not depends how happy you are, but how happy others can be because of you

The smallest good deed is better than the grandest intention.

Charity is never so lovely as when one has lost consciousness that one is practicing charity. "You mean I helped you? I was enjoying myself. I was just doing my dance. It helped you, that's wonderful. Congratulations to you. No credit to me.

El amor sólo puede existir en libertad. El verdadero amante busca el bien de la persona amada, lo cual requiere especialmente la liberación de ésta respecto de aquél.

You know, a good is never so good as when you have no awareness that you're doing good. You are never so good as when you have no consciousness that you're good.

And here is a second quality of love—its gratuitousness.

Frederick can walk for hours in the woods, can identify warblers fifty yards away simply by hearing their song. Frederick hardly every thinks of himself. Frederick is stronger than he is in every imaginable way.

success is not about wealth or fame, it's about making a difference in other people's lives every single day of our lives

If they find me, they will kill me. But my life is not in question here. You are all that matters.

Anthony Joshua

As a father now, I wouldn't do what my dad did, because it left me feeling emotionally unstable as a kid. But he didn't do the things he did out of selfishness or malice.

I feel more satisfaction - and attach greater value - to providing assists then scoring myself.

May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.

Public office must not be a means to profit or become rich.

I have a lifelong devotion to public service.

If you make the choice to serve the public, public service, then serve the public, not yourself.

I don't want to do anything that capitalizes personally on the fact that I've been in public service.

I'm not interested in publicity for myself.