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Quotes About Selflessness

Let us choose life and love, and happily use our selves up in loving service to one another.
~ Doris Haddock
Love only serves and does not calculate.
~ Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
It is impossible to love deeply without sacrifice.
~ Elisabeth Elliot
Love is a one-way street. Love, like respect isn't something you get; it's something you give
~ Gregory David Roberts
Where there is love, nothing is too much trouble and there is always time.
~ Abdu'l-Bahá
Love means to be willing to give until it hurts.
~ Mother Teresa
The perfection of a Christian consists in mortifying his will for the love of Christ. Where there is no great mortification, there is no great sanctity.
~ Philip Neri
As a pastor, I am bound by a divine command to give my life for those whom I love, and that includes all Salvadorans, even those who are going to kill me.
~ Oscar Romero
Can you love or guide someone without any kind of expectation?
~ Laozi
Love is a luxury. It's something that people are allowed to indulge in when they're not simply trying to survive and keep other people alive.
~ Julianna Baggott, Fuse
Love is more important than what we can take...Please say with me three times-Love! Love! Love!
~ Pele
Love is not about what you want. It's about finding happiness for the one you love.
~ Terry Goodkind
I love my kids. But I don't give them the burden of being the source of my love.
~ Tony Robbins
If I myself dominate myself, if my thoughts revolve round myself, if I am so occupied with myself I rarely have "a heart at leisure from itself," then I know nothing of Calvary love.
~ Amy Carmichael
Love isn't what I have the opportunity to get from this world. Love is what I have the opportunity to give.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
If we empty our hearts of self God will fill them with His love.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Lord, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love, with all my heart. With all my heart.
~ Eugene Roe
Without humility you can't love. Love means looking beyond the self to the other.
~ Frederick Lenz
If we give what we treasure most to a Being we love with all our hearts, if we can do that without expecting anything in return, then the world becomes a beautiful place.
~ Orhan Pamuk
The mark of one who loves God and saints is sacrifice.
~ Dada Vaswani
Take a moment to gather your thoughts about your situation and ask, "What would Love do?" Then channel that energy in your words and actions.
~ Doreen Virtue
Put others before yourself, unselfish love, do unto others as you would have done to you.
~ Jessica Chastain
Love is that which exists to do good, not merely to get good.
~ Victoria Woodhull
Infinitely more important than sharing one's material wealth is sharing the wealth of ourselves-our time and energy, our passion and commitment, and, above all, our love.
~ William E. Simon