Quotes About Selflessness

In that moment she learnt one of the greatest secrets of life: It is often easier to fight for others than it is for yourself.

If you were to write your life motto, what would it say? Look out for number one? Or look out for the needs of others?

Life is a do-it-for-others, do-it-yourself project.

Gratitude free of compassion is selfishness. It is nothing more than being happy for what has been done to benefit you.

My whole life I've been an over-giver. My general operating policy has always been, 'If it belongs to me, don't worry: You can have it!'

Approach life knowing there will be plenty to go around. Be generous.

Having a tough time, things aren't working out no matter what you try and do? That's because you are spending your whole life just doing things for yourself. That's a very limited view of your being.

If your're not having a very good time with your life, its because you haven't done much for others. You may have done many things but you havent done much for those around you.

One day after many, many lifetimes, we get wise. We decide that the fun in life is to give.

As you pass through this life, have you done all that you really wish to for others?

Eternity, I don't know what's right or wrong, good or bad. I may be doing what's right or I may be deceiving myself. So instead, what I'm going to do is give my life to you.

Be concerned with the welfare of others without any sense of self-importance that one is better because one meditates or leads a certain type of life.

Simplify your life and your mind. Think more of infinity and less of yourself.

I think there's a God and I know it's not me. I don't have a set of tenets, but I live an ethical life.

You must keep a careful, correct perspective on life that this is not about me but about me serving my gift to the world.

Your life is your own, your glory is your glory, but you will lose it if you keep it for yourself. Grasp it for the sake of others.

And he realized... that fragile, mortal life wasn't just important to him. It was more important than his own.

No matter how you decide to spend a little more time on your gestures of giving, the point is just quite simply that you do.

We must never make our parents sad, even if this means giving up everything that makes us happy.

He gives before he is asked.

In a nutshell, when life is pleasant, think of others. When life is a burden, think of others.

The self-sacrificing, servant aspect of the Christian life has many parallels to parenthood.

I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.

Life isn't about what you have but what you have to give.