Quotes About Selflessness

There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father's one of them.

I have now understood that though it seems to men that they live by care for themselves, in truth it is love alone by which they live. He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love.

The man who must brag for himself knows that no one else will

I love to see honest and honorable men at the helm, men who will not bend their politics to their purses, nor pursue measures by which they may profit, and then profit by their measures.

The higher type of man clings to virtue, the lower type of man clings to material comfort. The higher type of man cherishes justice, the lower type of man cherishes the hope of favors to be received.

If by leaving a small pleasure one sees a great pleasure, let a wise man leave the small pleasure, and look to the great.

Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away.

Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude itself is, in one sense, overcome.

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

Every man is to be considered in two capacities, the private and public; as designed to pursue his own interest, and likewise to contribute to the good of others.

Every man should bear his own grievances rather than detract from the comforts of another.

Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits and all other private gratifications.

The more we take the less we become, the fortune of one man means less for some.

What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.

Only one human being recognized as one's neighbour is necessary in order to cure a man of self-love

There is in man a higher than love of happiness; he can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness.

The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him

Man's best friend is one who wishes well to the object of his wish for his sake, even if no one is to know of it.

To my God a heart of flame; To my fellow man a heart of love; To myself a heart of steel.

Few men are both rich and generous; fewer are both rich and humble.

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

This much is certain: when a man is happy, happy to the core and root of beatitude, he is no longer conscious of himself or anything else.

I should NOT be trading on the blood of my men.

I will hate the man you choose because he is not me, and love him if he makes you smile. No woman deserves the sure knowledge of widow's black as her brideprice, you least of all.