Quotes About Selflessness

The noblest service comes from nameless hands; and the best servant does his work unseen.

Charity is the root of all good works.

I start every day by wanting more for others than I do for myself. I think that is how God works, and that is how I think we have to work.

Unless this love is among us, we can kill ourselves with work and it will only be work, not love. Work without love is slavery.

The first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way.

Forget yourself and go to work.

To get rid of greed, you should try to do some sort of a collective social work.

Your body is just a vessel for who you are as a person. And until you work on what you give back to the world, it doesn't matter what you look like on the outside.

The love that makes community is the willingness to do someone else's dirty work.

The bad leaders are the ones that push hard so they can gain, who brow beat us so that they can receive the benefit of our hard work, not so we can enjoy the success

One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.

The True Person benefits yet expects no reward, does the work and moves on. There is no desire to be considered better than others.

If you want to win, you have to sacrifice and do what makes the team work most efficiently.

What is hard work? It takes strength, energy, and stress to truly care about others enough to place oneself last, but it is easy to wrap oneself up and selfishly scramble on the heads of others.

I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.

Turkey, Japan do great work because they can keep under control their little personal selfishness, egoism, jealousy, etc. when they get down to work.

I don't use my writing career as a vehicle to get me acting work or to write roles for myself.

Nebraskans are known for giving of themselves and that quality is part of what makes our state such a wonderful place to live, work and raise a family.

You're giving up. You're slipping into being miserable and if you are being miserable, then it's all about you again. But it's not all about you. Love doesn't work that way.

It is possible to renounce everything and attain enlightenment. But most people don't want to renounce; they wish to run away from responsibility and hard work.

If you work an extra ten hours to help spread the dharma, this will cause for much faster progression. You're doing something for a higher cause, for a higher ideal.

Forget yourself and get to work.

In America, we like everyone to know about the good work we're doing anonymously.

Nothing about the priesthood is self-centered. The priesthood always is used to serve, to bless, and to strengthen other people.