Quotes About Selflessness

He who lives only for himself is truly dead to others.

Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.

I expect to pass through life but once. If, therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do for any fellow being, let me do it now ... as I shall not pass this way again.

I'm not an American hero. I'm a person who loves children.

Giving kids clothes and food is one thing, but it's much more important to teach them that other people besides themselves are important and that the best thing they can do with their lives is to use them in the service of other people.

Be charitable and indulgent to every one but thyself.

Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.

Whoever in trouble and sorrow needs your help, give it to him. Whoever in anxiety or fear needs your friendship, give it to him. It isn't important whether he likes you. It isn't important whether you approve of his conduct. It isn't important what his creed or nationality may be.

Generosity with strings is not generosity: it is a deal.

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.

It is more blessed to give than to receive.

Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.

An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness. I suppose it is a philanthropic movement to try to reverse the process.

Even if it's a little thing, do something for those who have need of help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.

What boundary ever set limits to the service of mankind?

You can never expect too much of yourself in the matter of giving yourself to others.

Better to expose ourselves to ingratitude than fail in assisting the unfortunate.

Behold! I do not give lectures on a little charity. When I give, I give myself.

In real love you want the other person's good.

It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.

He who does not live in some degree for others, hardly lives for himself.

The most infectiously joyous men and women are those who forget themselves in thinking about others and serving others.

Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.

He that will not permit his wealth to do any good for others ... cuts himself off from the truest pleasure here and the highest happiness later.