Quotes About Selflessness

The best antidote I know for worry is work. The best cure for weariness is the challenge of helping someone who is even more tired. One of the great ironies of life is this: He or she who serves almost always benefits more than he or she who is served.

Being humble means recognizing that we are not on earth to see how important we can become, but to see how much difference we can make in the lives of others

Forget yourself and get to work.

If we are to build that Zion of which the prophets have spoken and of which the Lord has given mighty promise, we must set aside our consuming selfishness. We must rise above our love for comfort and ease, and in the very process of effort and struggle, even in our extremity, we shall become better acquainted with our God." — Gordon B. Hinckley

The happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others.

Truly Christian conduct is not predicated on whether I have the right to do something, but whether my conduct is helpful to those about me.

He came to chat with me the day of my being discharged, advising that I not stay at the dog fight until the last dog was dead. I was a kid and made little counsel. Now that I am a bigger kid, I see the value--belatedly--added. Yet I also see the loss of life in the protecting, first of all, of oneself. Better to give oneself away. Dead f*ck the dog and so on.

As God sacrificed His Son, so we follow and give even those things that are most precious to us in our personal worlds: our time, our convenience, our creature comforts.

Showing oneself eager for office was a sign of being unworthy of it, for the office-seeker probably had selfish views rather than the public good in mind.

A dog iz the only thing on this earth that luvs yu more than he luvs himself

What you call a hero, I call just doing my job.

Volunteer firefighters do it for free!

Never fight fire from ego.

...for healing comes only from what leads the patient beyond himself and beyond his entanglement in the ego.

It's not that successful people are givers; it is that givers are successful people.

To fold the hands in prayer is well, to open them in charity is better.

It's good to be blessed. It's better to be a blessing.

And then there were our sweet stolen moments in the midst of our work—just a word, or caress, or flash of love-light; and our moments were sweeter for being stolen. For we lived on the heights, where the air was keen and sparkling, where the toil was for humanity, and where sordidness and selfishness never entered. We loved love, and our love was never smirched by anything less than the best. And this out of all remains: I did not fail.

Tirarle el hueso al perro no es caridad. Caridad es compartir el hueso con el perro cuando se está tan hambriento como él

Working to fulfill someone else's needs or dreams almost always catches up with you.

He had never been one to care about appearances or heroics or receiving accolades for his deeds. I daresay keeping Phèdre in one piece had kept him too busy; and then later, protecting me, too.

Love is something that must be given Ã¢â'¬â€ it can't be bought with words or pity, or even reason.

La forma di egoismo più intelligente è l'altruismo.

When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself