Quotes About Selflessness

I would never hurt one person's chances to help another--even if that other person was someone I cared about.

I won't steal from her. I would never hurt one person's chances to help another—even if that other person was someone I cared about.

Mitä on rakkaus? Tarve tulla ulos itsestään. Ihminen on palvova eläin. Palvominen on itsensä uhraamista ja prostituoimista. Niin on kaikki rakkaus prostituutiota. Kaikista olennoista prostituoiduin on korkein olento, Jumala, koska hän on jokaisen yksilön ylin ystävä, koska hän on rakkauden yhteinen, ehtymätön lähde.

Jos et keksi mitä tekisit, niin ole kiltisti. (Auringonvalo, tässä olen, s. 217)

Lord, help me to see that what I have has been given and this makes a claim on me to be generous and not to hold things simply to myself. Amen.

If you life is an example of glorifying God, others won't see your good works and glorify YOU, because they'll know what you are doing is for God's glory.

A selfless devotion. High-impact people don't care about who gets the credit, and they never complain about the role they fill.

If your motive is in any way to promote greatness for yourself, you're in the wrong calling.

Un espíritu humilde, nacido de una profunda convicción de que no somos nada, es una gracia que adorna.

No human being has the right to put his own desires in front of the happiness of anyone else.

Real generosity is also showing up when you don't feel like it—sacrificing your own happiness in exchange for someone else's.

In such a regime, I say you died a good death if your life had inspired someone to come forward and shoot your murdered in the chest - without asking to be paid.

The real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.

Generosity is not so much a virtuous act as it is a virtuous response.

It's not about you, it's about the idea you're passionate about. Your job is to be there in service of that idea, to offer it as a gift.

Some people are given a great gift of not caring what others think or about anything but being faithful to what they're called by God to do.

Fatherhood has changed me - it has to change you. It makes you much more aware of the minutiae of life, it's not about your needs any more, its about everyone else's.

I'm a rich man, but I don't want to be a miser.

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

I am less selfish. But I am more insistent on being part of the creative experience. I find I am a better mother, lover and wife when I am writing. When my daughter was small I wasn't writing as much and I didn't miss it.

On any high-performing team I've been a part of, putting mission first, and team before self, was always key to collective success.

I'm not an ambitious person, there is no ambition in my life. I have a mission in my life. And my mission is to serve my country. And when I am working for my state, it means I am working for my country, or my nation.

God only knows we need a great role model as a leader who is more leader than they are male or female, who is more about their mission that serves everyone than about ego and personal ambition that only serves them.

The biggest challenge facing a missionary today is to forget himself and lose himself in the work.