Quotes About Selflessness

Giving. In the RYMR leadership guide, Dr. Torie Weiston-Serdan, author of Critical Mentoring: A Practical Guide , says, "Muhammad Ali showed us that giving, even at the point of personal sacrifice,

Yet the same Yama-san who educated us in this exceptional manner made the following claim in a magazine once: "All I ever taught Kurosawa was how to drink." How is it possible to express one's gratitude to someone so selfless?

I knew everything and received everything. But real happiness, is giving.

Only the ego resists egos. The spirit may notice egos, but sees beyond them and does not engage with them.

Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back? Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like oceans and clouds, an evaporating of seawater and a replenishing by rain?

MODESTY AT A WEDDING means rejoicing fully in the singing, dancing, and feasting while inwardly striving to direct all of those activities for the happiness of the wedding couple, not for oneself. —RABBI NOSSON TZVI FINKEL, THE ALTER OF SLABODKA (1849–1927)

THE SINGLE, INTEGRATED inner experience of caring for, respecting, and bonding to another is love. The object of your love is one whom you care about even more than you are concerned for your own self. You would do or give what the other needs without the slightest feeling that what you have done or given is a sacrifice at all. Those acts and gifts are the fulfillment of love, and life.

SOMEONE WHO WANTS to be greater than others should not dig a pit for his friend; rather he should build a hill for himself. —RABBI YISRAEL SALANTER (1810–1883)

I have even heard holiness defined as the absence of self-interest.

As the Sages state: 'The desire for honor removes a man from the world.' However, the reverse is true concerning others, as the Sages said: 'Who is honored? He who honors others.'"7 Do not seek honor for yourself, but go out of your way to honor others.

BEFORE A PERSON gives up his portion in the next world for others, let's see if he is willing to forgo some of his share in this world for others. —RABBI YOSEF YOZEL HURWITZ, THE ALTER OF NOVARDOK (1849–1919)

But there is only one thing that has power completely, and this is love. Because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.

Before we can pray, "Lord, Thy Kingdom come," we must be willing to pray, "My Kingdom go.

When we choose things that are evil and stupid, then we pay the cost of lost opportunities to do something good—something wise and unselfish.

While generosity is about more than just money, bear in mind that the idea of it is really based not so much on what you give but rather what you have left after you give.

That's what love is – sacrifice. Sacrificing everything ...

Obviously I have personal goals in my mind, but I put the team first.

I don't have a personal life. Whatever I have is for the country and society.

The moment you have a child, in an instant your life is not for you, and your life is completely, 100 percent dedicated to another human being, and they will always come first. It changes you forever. It changes your perspective, and it gives you a nice purpose and focus.

I would say I don't like people who are really into themselves or are very materialistic. Just always talking themselves up. Not being real is the pet peeve. Be true to yourself.

I decided that I was going to leave State House, and I was going also to step up and step aside so that I give President Peter Mutharika an opportunity to run the country without my interference.

We're often ashamed of asking for so much help because it seems selfish or petty or narcissistic, but I think, if there's a God - and I believe there is - that God is there to help. That's what God's job is.

I feel motherhood is the best phase in every woman's life.

I want to hire guys that fit that mold; I want guys where it's about the Philadelphia Eagles first, that check their egos at the door.