Quotes About Selflessness

An attitude of entitlement is inversely related to one of gratitude.

Changing your attitude from self-centerdness to understanding requires desire and commitment to always try to see things from the other persons point of view.

In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude

The outflow that comes from giving of oneself opens the door to spiritual unfoldment while the attitude of taking locks it.

I do everything for everyone to make their lives easier and better and then I don't know who I am, and they don't care. I'm the full-service wife and mom

try their own wings, and pick up the pieces when they fall. And whatever you do, no matter how hard you try, there's always something you did wrong that they never forgive you for. It's a thankless job. But the best one in the world.

Estéril es la persona que no puede amar, que no puede dar nada, que vive encerrada en sí misma. Todo eso es lo que importa y nada de eso eres tú, Sam. Tú no eres así.

Doing things for someone else is what I love most about relationships, even more than having stuff done for me.

Better to die for my people in my own land than rule in another and suffer a lifetime of cowardly guilt.

Crooked, grasping, evil-hearted people were easy to find. Honest, concerned, self-sacrificing people were harder to come by.

Again the greatest use of a human was to be useful. Not to consume, not to watch, but to do something for someone else that improved their life, even for a few minutes.

Well, honey, I'm a sixty-three-year-old fat woman with sore feet, high blood pressure, and the beginnings of diabetes. I know I don't have all that much time left, and I can either spend it moping and complaining about the things I never got to in life, or I can do something I love and help people along the way. I decided to keep plugging 'til I drop.

There should never be enough 'going on' that we forget about the needs of others. That, essentially, is the essence of goodness.

Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves; do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others.

Where is it written that one should only care about big things? I fought for big things, long ago… for issues, principles, a country. Where are all of them now?... I found out something, you know. I discovered that the big things don't love you back. They take and take, and never give in return. They'll drain your blood, your soul, if you let them, and never let go.

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

Instant enlightenment is to give all your happiness away to others.

Whenever you notice that you are mulling over your own problems, knotting energy into your body as tension, take that energy and create a gift for others.

And a hero isn't someone who doesn't feel fear, they're someone who in spite of their fear does the right thing and really risks their own safety

Cuando necesitas a una persona para llenar tu vida es porque en realidad tienes un vacío dentro de ti. Cuando necesitas a una persona no la amas en el sentido más espiritual del término, porque amar es pasar por encima de ti mismo, por encima de tus necesidades egocéntricas y entregar la esencia de tu alma, el amor.

No hay límite en lo que un hombre puede alcanzar en la medida que no le importe quién asuma el crédito." BOB WOODRUFF, COCA-COLA

True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of the quiet, precise, judicious exercise of probity and care—with no one there to see or cheer. This is the world.

Progressive liberals seem incapable of stating the obvious truth: that we who are well off should be willing to share more of what we have with poor people not for the poor people's sake but for our own; i.e., we should share what we have in order to become less narrow and frightened and lonely and self-centered people.

Real leaders are people who "help us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and selfishness and weakness and fear and get us to do better, harder things than we can get ourselves to do on our own.