Quotes About Selflessness

Blood was shed that you three might breathe the good air of life, and if that means you have to miss out on a Zibzy game, then so be it. Part of being a man is putting others' needs before your own.

Capitalism and altruism are incompatible; they are philosophical opposites; they cannot co-exist in the same man or in the same society.

God wisheth none should wreck on a strange shelf: To him man's dearer than to himself.

How difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness!

Some men are heroes by nature in that they will give all that is in them without regard to the effort or to the personal returns.

It is absurd to suppose, if this is God's world, that men must always be selfish barbarians.

If men will not act for themselves, what will they do when the benefit of their effort is for all?

Defer not charities till death; for certainly, if a man weigh it rightly, he that doth so is rather liberal of another man's than of his own.

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

Our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.

No man should have a political office because he wants a job.

Men inadvertently comport themselves with nobility when they have grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them.

I thought to myself, there's a man who gave up his life to serve others - to touch people in that way is probably the greatest thing you can do as a human being.

There is pleasure And there is bliss. Forgo the first to possess the second. If you are happy At the expense of another man's happiness, You are forever bound.

He that distributeth not That which he hath received-- His food, his drink, his sustenance-- Unto devotee, brahman, beggar, wayfarer-- Such a low man as he, they say, is like Unto a lack of rain.

A lot of people measure a man by what he's got. I've decided to measure myself by what I can give up.

In the world as I have seen it, no man grows rich by kindness.

Men of honor will do things for their children that they would never consider doing for themselves.

if a man would make his world large, he must be always making himself small.

It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something.

Learn to overrule minor interest in favor of great ones, and generously to do all the good the heart prompts; a man is never injured by acting virtuously.

Men aspiring to be free can hardly think of enslaving others.

A selfish basis would not serve the purpose of taking a man higher and higher along the paths of evolution.

Study men laying down their lives without hurting anyone else in the cause of their country's freedom.