Quotes About Selflessness

That someone can want something out of another person who gives absolutely nothing in return astounds me.

When you come from 'love,' you do certain things because you are love, not because you want to have love.

I'm generous. I give good tips. It's just - the way I live my life, ironically enough, is: I don't want anything. I'm not a consumer. I don't crave objects.

Anyone who wants to be pope doesn't care much for themselves, God doesn't bless them. I didn't want to be pope.

Life isn't just about what you can have; it's about what you have to give, what kind of person do you want to be?

How to find joy? Let your ambition disappear; ambition is the barrier. Ambition means an ego trip: "I want to be this, I want to be that - more money, more power, more prestige."

Very few people chose war. They chose selfishness and the result was war. Each of us, individually and nationally, must choose: total love or total war.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

The most noble fate a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war's desolation.

In the Wu Tzu it says: 'He who would save his life shall lose it, and he who would give up his life shall save it.'

This army stays here until the last wounded man is removed. Before I leave them to the enemy, I will lose many more men.

There are times when a corps commander's life does not count.

A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.

Do not waste time bothering whether you "love" your neighbor; act as if you did.

How can a man commit acts of martial valour if he values his life?

Religion is about integration, about successfully bringing the selfish ego into line with the centre of the personality where God exists, as a divine spark, in every human being. Religion is about helping man to live in harmony with his true self and to become the person God's designed him to be.

It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself." Ralph Waldo Emerson.

That's what love does. It doesn't stop to consider the cost. It just...acts. Puts itself out there.

God's favor depends on His greatness, not our smallness. His great love, showered upon us ... a small life is lived by staring inward but a large one is lived by diving into God's love.

You don't have to have special skills to be a hero. You just have to do what's right, despite the cost.

You show up. You wait. You give. You sacrifice. You love anyway.

Kindness is always motivated by something nobler than just a desire to be kind.

I want you to know that love is not a person. It is not of this earth at all. It wasn't until now that I realized I had mistakenly come to believe that love came from a place inside me and therefore had to protect that place. It comes from heaven, Eleanor. It is given to us not to hold on to or hide from, but to give away.

love and fear can sometimes feel the same, but each will lead a person to take different actions. When a decision h as to be made, fear usually motivates me to choose what is best for me, whereas love motivates me to choose what is best for another person. Fear urges me to hang on, white knuckled, to what is mine, while love can actually lead me to let go.... when you hold something you love tightly to your chest for fear of losing it, you actually risk crushing it against you.