Quotes About Selflessness

It is difficult to imagine love without generosity, without a desire to make some sacrifices. To-day

I renounced complete happiness in order to secure a part of it.

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

man gained direct knowledge of God by losing all awareness of himself. Referring to his title, the author depicts a passive attitude as the way "to cover," or forget, all distractions: "Try to cover these thoughts with a thick cloud of forgetting as though they never existed neither for you nor for any other man. And if they continue to arise, continue to put them down.

A man who sacrifices himself must be a decent chap.

To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.

True idealists, in contrast, care about the welfare of others above and especially against their own interests. If you enjoy your work or profit from it, how can you be sure you're truly doing it for others and not yourself?

He's only harming himself who's bent upon harming another

Mother Teresa said that for a sacrifice to be real, it must cost, must hurt, and we must empty ourselves,

The gift blesses the giver.

What is hateful to you do not do to your neighbor. That is the whole Torah. The rest is commentary.

He does not live in vain, who employs his wealth, his thought, his speech to advance the good of others.

The selflessness and dedication shown by many Greek doctors can be seen not only in such works as the Epidemics, but also in, for example, Thucydides' account of the plague at Athens (II, 47ff.) – where he notes the high incidence of mortality from the disease among the doctors who attempted to treat it.

All I need is the power to be able to protect my comrades. So long as I can have the strength to do that, I don't care if I'm weaker than everyone in the world.

You Don't Die for your Friends, You live for them.

It is the role of a parent to stand in front of their children, and protect them even if their legs were to give out at any moment - Master Makarov

I end up saving the world, just to save you

Only when I save the lives of others do I truly feel as though I am human. Do you only feel that you are human when you take the lives of others?

this ones who think of others and those who think of themselves, the unmistakable truth that these two cannot coexist!

The simple rule was never to refuse any one or thing in need. "It's not your job to read their hearts," he once told me after I claimed, with shameful certainty, that begging was a profession. "Your duty is not to doubt but to give. And don't ask questions at the door. Allow them only to tell you what they came for after they've had tea and something to eat.

The simple rule was never to refuse any one or thing in need. "It's not your job to read their hearts," he once told me after I claimed, with shameful certainty, that begging was a profession. "Your duty is not to doubt but to give.

Sometimes you have to take the focus off of you and put it on someone else and it's funny what you can accomplish and how much strength you really have.

But I will not stand in front of your happiness. I will not even stand in front of misery that you choose for yourself.

Once, there was a girl who vowed she would save everyone in the world, but forgot herself.