Quotes About Selflessness

For as we all know, real love is altruism. It is finding oneself through giving up oneself.

True love allows that any activity done for the other, even if it is sacrificial, is joyful.

Life is not having, it's wanting. Life is not taking, it's giving. Life is not dying, it's living.

You have to have the service mentality in the sense that you subjugate your own ego, and you subjugate a large part of your own life to really helping other people, being successful on their behalf.

Why would I ever get cocky? I'm not saving anybody's life.

Take time to make a difference. Don't just obsess about how you can make your life better. Think about how you can make somebody else's life better as well.

Using your own time to make someone else's life better is, like, the nicest thing you can do for anybody.

I would give up the unessential; I would give my money, I would give my life for my children; but I wouldn't give myself.

Life is special when you reach out beyond yourself to be a true servant leader for others.

Its a really wonderful thing to focus your life on something other than your own personal career and ambition.

The true neighbor will risk his position, his prestige, and even his life for the welfare of others.

You don't have to be larger than life to be a hero, just larger than yourself.

Once I stopped dwelling on what I didn't have, on what I thought I was going to lose, and began to give freely, everything opened up for me. Everything began to flow into my life.

The world says you gain your life by getting more and more and more and more, but Jesus says, 'No, that leads to death. You get it back by giving it away and when you give it away you get it back.'

They pass peaceful lives who ignore mine and thine.

It is easy to turn our religious life into a cathedral for beautiful memories, but there are feet to be washed . . .

Service is life. No service means, spiritually no life.

There is nothing to achieve, there is only surrender to a life of service.

Life lived to help others is the only life that matters.

Giving is not a strategy. It's a way of life.

Generosity isn't an act. It's a way of life.

You get to the point where you have to wash the dishes. That's the fun in life. Being behind the scenes and doing things for others; being an instrument of that cause. That is the secret teaching.

Tooting my own horn is of no interest to me... it takes you away from real life. It's a waste, and I don't find a need to sing my own praises.

A happy life is a life for others.