Quotes About Selflessness

The object of love is not getting something you want but doing something for the well-being of the one you love.

The more one forgives himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.

You can only give away what you have inside. Become an instrument of love, invite love to accompany you 24/7. Give away love, and it has to come streaming into your life.

When you're dating, abstinence is a greater expression of love than making love, because you're doing what's best for your beloved, not just what feels good in the moment.

Here's an idea: let's get over ourselves, buy a cherry pie, and go fall in love with life.

Love - is when you wish all the best to the people you love, when you put their interests and well-being above their own. Always.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

In my world love is the only law. I do not ask for love, I give it.

True love does not demand a reward, but it deserves one.

Powerful people can love without being loved back.

The beauty of love is that in giving it away, you are left with more than you had before.

I never look at the masses as my responsibility. I look at the individual. I can love only one person at a time. I can feed only one person at a time. Just one, one, one.

In short, selfishness is the opposite of love.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

Pure Christian love is not derived from the merit of the object.

Courage is inseparable from love and leads to what may arguably be the noblest of all warrior virtues: selflessness.

Love not only prefers the good of another to my own, but it does not even compare the two.

Going to war was the only unselfish thing I have ever done for humanity.

When we love deeply, love makes us do things we wouldn't otherwise do.

Just love the one in front of you. Take in the orphan, take in the widow. Just love the one in front of you.

Many of the qualities that come so effortlessly to dogs - loyalty, devotion, selflessness, unflagging optimism, unqualified love - can be elusive to humans.

The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.

I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.

Love can wait to give; it is lust that can't wait to get.