Quotes About Selflessness

The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.

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

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

Take the selfishness out of this world and there would be more happiness than we should know what to do with.

either you are so underdeveloped that you can't see all that you can do, or you won't sacrifice your ease, your vanity, or whatever it is, to do it...

The simplest and shortest ethical precept is to be served as little as possible . . . and to serve others as much as possible.

I know now that people only seem to live when they care only for themselves, and that it is by love for others that they really live. He who has Love has God in him, and is in God - - because God is Love.

There was no solution, but that universal solution which life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insoluble. That answer is: one must live in the needs of the day—that is, forget oneself. To forget himself in sleep was impossible now, at least till nighttime; he could not go back now to the music sung by the decanter-women; so he must forget himself in the dream of daily life.

In Varenka, she realized that one has but to forget oneself and love others, and one will be calm, happy, and noble.

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

I understood that men only think that they live by caring only about themselves: in reality they live by love alone.

Oh no, Papa, Kitty objected warmly. Varenka adores her. And besides, she does so much good! Ask anyone you like! Everybody knows her and Aline Stah. Perhaps, he said, pressing her arm with his elbow. But it is better to do good so that, ask whom you will, no one knows anything about it.

So you make a sacrifice!' he threw special emphasis on the last word. 'Well, so do I. What could be better? We complete in generosity--what an example of family happiness!

I have learned that men live not by selfishness, but by love.

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

What, indeed, had I done in all my thirty years of conscious life? Not only had I failed to live my life for the sake of all, but I had not even lived it for myself. I had lived as a parasite, and once I asked myself why I had lived, the answer I received was: for nothing.

Here's what the happiness is: it's living for the others.

The most important and necessary human deed, for both doer and recipient, are those of which he does not see the results.

Whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also; and if any man take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also,

The only certain happiness in life is to live for others.

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.

In Varenka she saw that it was only necessary to forget oneself and to love others in order to be at peace, happy, and lovely. And such a person Kitty wished to be. Having now clearly understood what was most important, Kitty was not content merely to delight in it, but immediately with her whole should devoted herself to this newly-revealed life.

So long as people do not consider all men as their brothers and do not consider human life as the most sacred thing, which rather than destroy they must consider it their first and foremost duty to support; that is so long as people do not behave towards one another in a religious manner, they will always ruin one another's lives for the sake of personal gain.

sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.