Quotes About Selflessness

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.

God exalts the man who humbles himself.

Humility saves man: pride makes him lose his way.

If you love and serve man, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape remuneration.

The wise man puts himself last and finds himself first.

The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.

A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind.

The small share of happiness attainable by man exists only insofar as he is able to cease to think of himself.

Man's greatest happiness comes from losing himself for the good of others.

Only one man has the right to boast, and that's the man who never does.

Those good men who take such pleasure in relieving the miserable for Christ's sake, would not have been less forward to minister onto Christ Himself.

A great man is made so for others.

Men that talk of their own benefits are not believed to talk of them because they have done them, but to have done them because they might talk of them.

We want men to rule the nation who care more for and love better the nation's welfare than gold and silver, fame or popularity.

A man of humanity is one who, in seeking to establish himself, finds a foothold for others and who, in desiring attaining himself, helps others to attain.

Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man.

Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.

Full of love for all things in the world, practicing virtue, in order to benefit others, this man alone is happy.

Love, whether sexual, parental, or fraternal, is essentially sacrificial, and prompts a man to give his life for his friends.

He who, having lost his parents or being abandoned, by them without ,just cause, gives himself to a ,man , is called a son self given.

If you asked Rahul Dravid to walk on glass for his team, his only question would be - 'How many miles?' That just shows you how great a man he is.

It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex instead of a fountain; so that, instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in.

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.