Quotes About Selflessness

Real living is living for others.

showing off is the fools's idea of glory.

The way to get things done is to not mind who gets the credit for doing them." – Benjamin Jowett, British theologian and classicist.

Summing up: Correctly interpreted, the simple economic model specifically predicts that people will be less selfish as voters than as consumers. Indeed, like diners at an all-you-can-eat buffet, we should expect voters to "stuff themselves" with moral rectitude. Once again, analogies between voting and shopping are deeply misleading.

Whatever is done for man will pass, yet all that is done for God will last.

Si mi interés principal soy yo mismo, será más importante ganar recompensas y comodidades por encima de la vida de servicio y sacrificio a la cual Dios llama a todos los creyentes.

The message implicit in the account of the lepers coordinates with the one already made clear in the preceding parable: what we do for God cannot make God our debtor, and should never be done primarily for our gain. For if we are serving God primarily for our personal gain, then whom are we really serving? Only self.

We've been trained since kindergarten: Be nice, be kind, share, put on a smile. So we're conditioned to squash our natural selfish instincts, and that's the right thing for society.

Life is made up of an innumerable number of small acts, not considered worth doing by those who are guided by selfish considerations. Of the countless millions of kind and generous acts done, but few would have been done had it been necessary to reason out just in what way the bread "cast upon the waters" would return.

We love most those who we serve most.

Humility and full consciousness are inseparable.

If you have not been served personally by caring hands in your own life, do not be bitter, but instead, ask yourself who you can now serve.

The greatest joys in life are found not only in what we do and feel, but also in our quiet hopes and labors for others.

You will be a beautiful person, as long as you see the beauty in others.

We are here to spend ourselves on others; for each person is a great treasure.

You get most things in life not by taking, but by giving.

Service heals the recipient and the giver.

As free as you allow others to be, such freedom you create for yourself.

The act of true giving is indistinguishable from receiving.

To every soul you encounter, be a mirror, which reflects only their beauty.

The true test of a man's character is not how much he has, but how much he is willing to give.

Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds.

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.

That worship which is directed by divine precept is performed without the desire of reward.