Quotes About Selflessness

It is neither the statesman nor the friend who is asking your help and assistance, but simply the man.

What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.

What a man does for himself, dies with him. What a man does for his community lives long after he's gone.

No one has learned the meaning of living until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellow man. Service to others is akin to duty, the fulfillment of which brings true joy.

The average person's idea of a great man, rather than one who serves, is of one who succeeds in getting himself served.

A man can be a hero in any profession

...we understand only the individual's capacity to make sacrifices for the community, for his fellow men.

The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.

How wonderful are the women and men in the world who feed us. Especially those who feed us with no salary. The mothers—I thought. The wives.

What man has more than enough and gives it to the world? Only the man of Tao.

If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it.

I want to be a good creature for reasons beyond sharing a life with a good man.

The good man does not grieve that other people do not recognize his merits. His only anxiety is lest he should fail to recognize theirs.

For when down on the knees The man (or god) stretches the arms In giving, It is no accident the hands Are curled like bowls or cups, For he offers self, yet Begs it back again.

A man or a woman who serves the country with all his or her heart stands on par with the tallest Congress-man.

No man can be fully efficient if he expects praise or appreciation for what he does.

No man can help another without helping himself.

Nothing is more condemnable than selfishness. A man who thinks of himself alone is the most unlucky person of all.

Like the Bible tells us, when a man will lay down his life for a friend, well, then there ain't no greater love in this here world than that.

New Rule: Someone has to tell Francesco Schettino that embracing a callous policy of "every man for himself" doesn't make you a sea captain. It makes you the Republican nominee.

Service to man is service to god

He who look at a woman who is not his wife as a mother; wealth that is not his as dust and all the men as himself... is a happy man. He, who sees all these things under a different light, is a blind.

Mandela stands alone in possessing all of the qualities of other great men, but has one quality which is transcendent... his ability to forgive and to place others above himself.

By obliging men to turn their attention to other affairs than their own, it rubs off that private selfishness which is the rust of society.