Quotes About Selflessness

Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them.

When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what they right hand doeth.

We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his political life.

Be unselfish in your love. Remember, you are not the cat.

Lord, if any have to die this day, let it be me, for I am ready.

We should say to God as we mingle with our dear ones each day, "God, give them each Thy blessing. They need it, because they live with me, and I am very selfish and unwilling to sacrifice very much for them, although I do love them."

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single kind act is better than a thousand head-bowings in prayer.

They are proud in humility, proud in that they are not proud.

The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your own body and get interested in someone else's.

It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts ... A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

Blessed is he who expects no gratitude, for he shall not be disappointed.

Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth.

Him that makes shoes go barefoot himself.

Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.

A successful man is he who receives a great deal from his fellow men, usually incomparably more than corresponds to his service to them. The value of a man, however, should be seen in what he gives, and not in what he is able to receive.

Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

I beg leave to assure the Congress that no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness. I do not wish to make any profit from it.

By nice women . . . you probably mean selfish women who have no more thought for the underprivileged, overworked women than a pussycat in a sunny window for the starving kitten in the street. Now in that sense I am not a nice woman, for I do care.

A person who believes ... that there is a whole of which one is a part, and that in being a part one is whole: such a person has no desire whatever, at any time, to play God. Only those who have denied their being yearn to play at it.

We seldom stop to think how many people's lives are entwined with our own. It is a form of selfishness to imagine that every individual can operate on his own or can pull out of the general stream and not be missed.