Quotes About Selflessness

That's the Celes I know and love. So determined. So strong, but still thinking about everyone else except yourself.", FADE by Kailin Gow

The way to God lies through love of other people, and there is no other way. At the Last Judgement I shall not be asked if I was successful in my ascetic exercises or how many prostrations I made in the course of my prayers. I shall be asked, did I feed the hungry, clothe the naked, visit the sick and the prisoners: that is all I shall be asked.23

The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.

The good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.

Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.

It's irrelevant how I prefer to play and what I want. It's all about what works for the team.

I do not say anything from jealousy.

I'm more of a go-out-there-and-get-it-done-by-any-means type of guy that don't care what name is on the back of the jersey or what name is on the front of the jersey.

Jesus gives his life for the congregation, not the other way around.

In terms of people who we call heroes - and I don't tend to like that term, and firefighters don't consider themselves heroes - but if you look at their job description, they are. Their job is to straight up save people.

I believe in giving everybody a chance to join our party. Over time, we realized that some joined expecting what the party can do for them... We want the people, when they come and join the PSP, to do something for the country and not for themselves.

It is the rarest of qualities: to feel something—anything—for someone beside yourself. And in my experience it is rarer still to have empathy for people you don't know.

You said go to her, and I let pride stand in my way. You said she needed me, and I didn't believe. You said love her, and I thought it would be easy.

In charity there is no excess.

To despoil oneself of all wealth in Jesus' name is a sign of faith in Divine Providence.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take with you nothing that have received--only what you have given.

Blessed is the servant who esteems himself no better when he is praised and exalted by people than when he is considered worthless, simple, and despicable; for what a man is before God, that he is and nothing more.

A man sins who wishes to receive more from his neighbor than he is himself willing to give to the Lord God.

Upon this, Bernard went and sold all that he had. Now he was very rich, and with great joy he distributed his wealth to widows, to orphans, to prisoners, to monasteries, to hospitals, and to pilgrims, in all which St Francis assisted him with prudence and fidelity.

Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.

No man is born unto himself alone;Who lives unto himself, he lives to none.

I have nothing, I owe a great deal, and the rest I leave to the poor.

Sometimes you have to do things that you don't want to do for the sake of other people. In the end, you are the choices that you make.