Quotes About Selflessness

What could you do to a man who owns nothing? You can't starve a fasting man, you can't steal from someone who has no money, you can't ruin someone who hates prestige.

Be kind to all beings, this is more meritorious than bathing at the sixty-eight sacred shrines of pilgrimage and donating money.

One of the greatest tazkiya (purification) of the nafs (self) is to part with your money and to give it to people who deserve it.

What you keep for yourself, you lose. What you give away, you keep forever

You know, if your parents didn't have you, they'd be living in a nicer home, driving a Mercedes-Benz, with money in the bank and a boat. But noooooo. They had to have you! You've got to give back!

Forgiveness is the best charity. (It is easy to give the poor money and goods when one has plenty, but to forgive is hard; but it is the best thing if one can do it.)

Christ says, 'Give me all. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want You.'

If you want money more than anything, you'll be bought and sold. If you have a greed for food, you'll be a loaf of bread. This is a subtle truth: Whatever you love, you are.

How many of us, who are engaged in the Lord's holy service, are secretly cherishing some proud purpose of excelling other men, of making a name, of securing money and applause.

Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.

How friendly we should all be with one another if nobody were interested in money and honor.

When we lavish our money we rob our heir; when we merely save it we rob ourselves.

Let not the tie be mercenary, though the service is measured in money. Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.

The money I try and earn is for my family. It's not for me. It's always about my family.

A man is sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps through fear of being thought to have but little.

I had to put my kid before my career and all the money I was making. I decided to do the right thing. I was dying inside. If I didn't have my daughter, I would be dead right now, for sure.

I think that a person who is attached to riches, who lives with the worry of riches, is actually very poor. If this person puts his money at the service of others, then he is rich, very rich.

It is better not to say "lend." There is only giving.

Insist that the first question each of us asks isn't "What's good for me?" but "What's good for the country my children will inherit?

My favorite cause is the enlightenment of others. I think that is the best place to put money. You get the highest yield in terms of karma on your money.

It is easy to be compassionate with other people's money

Money spent on myself may be a millstone about my neck; money spent on others may give me wings like the angels.

I had much more money than you ever need in your life to live on. So I was giving computer labs to school districts. I was - but then I decided you should really give yourself.

Greatness is not found in power, it is not found in money, it is not found in the ability to conquer. Greatness is found in humility, in compassion, and in the ability to think outside oneself.