Quotes About Selflessness

My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.

Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life.

There is no division nor subtraction in the heart-arithmetic of a good mother. There are only addition and multiplication.

You see, a person full of the Holy Spirit cannot be full of self. Pride never accompanies power in the fully yielded life.

We resist offering ourselves wholly to anyone or anything that has the potential to encroach on our personal desires, and Jesus made clear from the start that God's will and ours would be in conflict at times. Yet our surrender to Jesus is also ultimately our surrender to joy.

Lend, expecting nothing in return. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High. Luke 6:35

God doesn't call us to sacrifice our sanity; He calls us to sacrifice our selfishness.

If my acceptance of the office of Governor would serve my country, though my administration would be attended with the loss of personal credit and reputation, I would cheerfully undertake it.

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

As actors, we want to show our acting prowess but one has to understand what to show and when to show. I learnt very early in my life that it is not required to be in the forefront all the time. There is a moment that belongs to you but when you are not needed, you need to disappear.

Not being anxious requires a level of humility, doesn't it? It does, I think. It's not all about you.

Whether or not we are religious, respecting others should be seen as just as important as looking out for ourselves, yet it requires discipline to change our bad habits that cause pain to animals.

Raising or caring for children requires sacrifice and service, which, I believe, heals us from the destructive forces of self-centeredness.

I think a child requires initial years of a mother's attention, which is very important, and I did it without any thought in the world. That's what I wanted to do.

Improv requires one thing I lack that I think most mothers need - the basic instinct to put someone else first.

The men and women who lived through and came to our rescue on 9/11 were not Democrats or Republicans or Independents. They were Americans first and foremost, and so were the people they saved.

Charity never lacks what is her own, all that she needs for her own security. Not alone does she have it, she abounds with it. She wants this abundance for herself that she may share it with all; and she reserves enough for herself so that she disappoints nobody. For charity is perfect only when full.

Americans are less selfish than some of our politicians believe and will respond with reason and resilience to passionate clarity.

As an actor, your best help is just to shut up and get out of the way.

I believe that everyone, regardless of who they are, should do something that is greater than themselves. Whether it's adoption, or helping people who are sick or poor, or whatever. That's what God put us on this earth to do.

When you're dealing with a sick person, you're not important at all. You're just a nobody.

To lose yourself in righteous service to others can lift your sights and get your mind off personal problems, or at least put them in proper focus.

The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice.

We have ourselves begun to put our house in order by banning some experiments that may contain a risk for mankind. We would like to see society take a similar attitude, abandoning selfish practices that are dangerous for society itself.