Quotes About Selflessness

The simple fact is that only if I love Jesus more than my wife will I be able to serve her needs ahead of my own.

I can't think of any sentiment which is finer than being in a position to give people something they like. I love giving, I am rather embarrassed at receiving.

About when to let others sacrifice themselves for you, even if its selfish. They say that if the sacrifice is the ultimate way for that person to show you that they love you, let them do it.

A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.

You can only give away what you have inside. Become an instrument of love.

Love is the supreme good; it is the overflowing life, the giving of ourselves to noble ends and causes.

Its not that I'm in love with myself, I'm just trying to pick up everyone else's slack.

You can will an act of service but you cannot will love.

The virtue involved in helping those one loves is not 'selflessness' or 'sacrifice,' but integrity.

But if the choice I have to make comes down to you or me, I choose you. I always have. All my love, Patch

Love is not a feeling, but an action.

The more we give of ourselves, the more our capacity to serve, understand, and love will grow.

Give because you love to give - as the flower pours forth its perfume.

Love never asks what benefit it will derive from love. Love from its very nature is a disinterested thing. It loves for the creature's sake it loves, and for nothing else.

Love gives up the right to get even.

Naught is possessed, neither gold, nor land nor love, nor life, nor peace, nor even sorrow nor death, nor yet salvation. Say of nothing: It is mine. Say only: It is with me.

Love is wanting others to be happy.

Last year when my grandma fell and broke her hip she couldn't paint her toenails anymore. So my grandpa started doing it for her, even after he fell and broke his hip, too. For me, that's love.

I love being a dad, and I'm good at it. Kids teach you about life, like how not to focus on yourself so much.

If I have all the faith so as to move mountains,but do not have love,then I an nothing.

Give of thy love, nor wait to know the worth Of what thou lovest; and ask no returning. And wheresoe'er thy pathway leads on earth, There thou shalt find the lamp of love-light burning.

Your life doesn't belong to you, it belongs to the people that love you

The gospel frees us from demanding our own way, because nothing we desire to obtain is worth sinning against such love and kindness.

I pray every night that I may live after him; because I would rather be miserable than that he should be — that proves I love him better than myself.