Quotes About Selflessness

True friendship never questions what it costs you.

If someone does not consider those around them to be valuable and hold only themselves in high regard, they too have a very bad self-esteem.

Only when you give from the heart does it make the giving whole.

The more you give, the less you need.

Giving materialistically is the soft option, but when you give from what you do for others then your reward is immeasurable contentment.

To allow others to shine, stand in the shade ...

Love is not jealous, angry or afraid.

The moment we see beyond our personal desires to be felt sympathy for, that is the time we can actually start the journey to that final destination of true forgiveness.

What do I look like? The Wizard of Oz? You need a brain? You need a heart? Go ahead, take mine. Take everything I have.

Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of someone else, someone I loved.

At the time of his death, Biko had a wife and three children for which he left a letter that stated in one part: "I've devoted my life to see equality for blacks, and at the same time, I've denied the needs of my family. Please understand that I take these actions, not out of selfishness or arrogance, but to preserve a South Africa worth living in for blacks and whites.

The Boaz Man, as we saw in the last chapter, is a solid citizen and family man, a man of character and integrity who operates out of servanthood, rather than selfishness or greed. Because the Lord Jesus Christ is King of his life, he in turn serves his King by serving others.

The truest form of love is how you behave toward someone, not how you feel about them.

The most self-serving thing one can do is live their life selflessly. Selflessly give your experience. Selflessly give your knowledge. Selflessly give your time. Selflessly give whatever it is you have to give. And the world will rise to meet you.

About 5 percent of love is romantic. The other 95 percent is something else. It's caring for another more than yourself. It's empathy and compassion and sacrifice. It's setting aside your own concerns to lift someone else.

It's just that no one wants to be the one being rescued, we all want to do the rescuing.

Saving someone's life is a wonderful feeling. Try it. You feel like, if you don't mind a TV reference, a big damn hero.

It isn't that they're ungrateful." "I know. It's just that no one wants to be the one being rescued, we all want to do the rescuing." She nodded. "And this job is all about making everyone else do the rescuing. Which is why you're here right now." "You want me to rescue someone?

He was a man who would never ask for sympathy. He was a man who sought only to do what was right. Such people appear in the world, every world, now and then, like a single refrain of some blessed song, a fragment caught on the spur of an otherwise raging cacophony. Imagine a world without such souls. Yes, it should have been harder to do.

Name none of the fallen, for they stood in our place, and stand there still in each moment of our lives. Let my death hold no glory, and let me die forgotten and unknown. Let it not be said that I was one among the dead to accuse the living.

Compassion existed when and only when one could step outside oneself, to suddenly see the bars from inside the cage.

My life as a mother had been one of skipping meals, always saving the 'good' food, like fresh fruit, for the kids I told myself deserved it more than I did.

I'm a guy that is willing to do whatever it is for the team, whether it is a kick returner, whether it be a punt returner, whether it be running down on kickoffs, whether it's line up in the slot, whether it's run a dummy play, fake play.

I have been doing good deeds since I was just a small child.