Quotes About Selflessness

The poverty of Christ was without a singular vow, and without beggary.

Ideally, a Stoic will be oblivious to the services he does for others, as oblivious as a grapevine is when it yields a cluster of grapes to a vintner. He will not pause to boast about the service he has performed but will move on to perform his next service, the way the grape vine moves on to bear more grapes.

I want to kill this degenerate bastard brother of yours. But I am not selfish, I do not want to deprive you of that honor.

Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross.

Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives its ease, And builds a Heaven in Hell's dispite.

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.

in a word, [they] did all the homely and necessary offices for them which dainty and queasy stomachs cannot endure to hear named; and all this willingly and cheerfully, without any grudging in the least, showing herein their true love unto their friends and brethren. A rare example and worthy to be remembered.

In respect to the danger of being killed by them, it is true that whoever does go must put his life in his hand, and not consult with flesh and blood; but do not the goodness of the cause, the duties incumbent on us as the creatures of God, and Christians, and the perishing state of our fellow men, loudly call upon us to venture all and use every warrantable exertion for their benefit?

Doing good, Disinterested good, is not our trade.

Unhappiness is the hunger to get; happiness is the hunger to give...If the individual should set out for a single day to give happiness, to make life happier, brighter and sweeter, not for himself but for others, he would find a wondrous revelation of what happiness really is.

No man must think that the world was made for him.

Love never thinks itself a loser so long as it keeps its beloved; yea, it is ambitious of any hazardous enterprise, whereby it may sacrifice itself in the service of its beloved, as we see in David, who put his life in his hands for Michal. How

We need do no more to lose our souls than to seek ourselves.

He is not a good subject, that is all for what he can get of his prince, but never thinks what he may do for him; nor he the true Christian, whose thoughts dwell more on his own happiness than on the honour of his God.

Treat people magnanimously if you can," he said, "It'll make you feel better. Expect nothing and you won't be disappointed. Do the decent thing if you can, but for its own sake.

Good-nature, or what is often considered as such, is the most selfish of all the virtues: it is nine times out of ten mere indolence of disposition.

The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.

Jake Sully went from being a self-centered individual, only concerned with regaining the use of his legs, to being the defender of an entire world.

There is no end to the good you can do if you don't care who gets credit for it.

The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

If ... a man measures life by what others do for him, he is apt to be disappointed, but if he measures life by what he does for others, there is no time for despair.

My place in history will depend on what I can do for the people and not on what the people can do for me.

Your success in life is what your willingness is to do for others !

I Corinthians 13 ('Gin I speak wi the tungs o men an angels, but hae nae luve i my hairt . . .')