Quotes About Selflessness

Only through service and sacrifice can you become great.

We can give without loving, but we can't love without giving. In fact, love is nothing unless we give it to someone.

You can't be a great leader if all you are serving is yourself.

The greatest surprise of human evolution may be that the highest form of selfishness is selflessness.

Give more than you get. Everyday. Everywhere. With everyone. Always.

Look upon every man, woman, and everyone as God. You cannot help anyone, you can only serve: serve the children of the Lord, serve the Lord Himself, if you have the privilege.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

There should be less talk. . . . What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Humility is not something that comes naturally. But it is a cardinal virtue that should be pursued more than any other.

At least once a month, do something for someone who will never know who did them the friendly favor.

When you get to a place where you don't go for what you can get, but you go for what you can give, you gonna see your life change tremendously.

The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

Despite your pains and your problems you can still be kind to others as they are not responsible for your misery.

It must be shown that self-seeking is out of fashion, and that the world is moving on to a larger conception of living.

Live for yourself and you will live in vain; Live for others, and you will live again.

Music is the only thing that will give and give and give and not take.

One of the great gifts of being a human being is that you can get rid of yourself and enter into the oneness of music.

When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.

To feel much for others and little for ourselves, that to restrain our selfish, and to indulge our benevolent affections, constitutes the perfection of human nature.

Gorillas are almost altruistic in nature. There's very little if any 'me-itis.' When I get back to civilization I'm always appalled by 'me, me, me.'

...To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage

Learning to love unselfishly is not an easy task. It runs counter to our self-centered nature.

It was on the cross of Calvary that God, in Christ, dealt fully and finally with self, the nature from which all our sins flow.

Love moves without an agenda. It just moves because that is its nature to move.