Quotes About Selflessness

Saadi: Be a true renouncer, (zahid) and [you can even] ware satin.

Saadi: Sé un verdadero renunciador (zahid) e incluso podrás usar raso.

Si eres mezquino, practica la generosidad como un correctivo, no como una virtud.

Real generosity is anonymous to the extent that a man should be prepared even to be considered ungenerous rather than explain it to others.

Teach us to give and not to count the cost.

When you find the absolute values, you are important to this world because you know what is important. Those who know what is truly important are helpful to this world, because they won't put their personal concerns before what is important to all.

The lesson was clear: Don't just show kindness in passing or to be courteous. Show it in depth, show it with passion, and expect nothing in return. Kindness is not just about being nice; it's about recognizing another human being who deserves care and respect.

Make a career of humanity. Make it a central part of your life.

Allowing him to flourish is killing my chance to flower.

Damned to continued disappointment are they who dream only of their own happiness over that of others.

Do always, without thought of reward.

My life is a small sacrifice for the betterment of others and for the furtherance of humanity.

Progressing means putting others before yourself and in turn, they'll put you before themselves.

Those whom give their lives to the world are the best of peoples.

When I was teaching children I began every day writing this on the blackboard: "Do to others what you would like them to do to you", telling them how much better the world would be if everybody lived by this rule.

Truly the Filipino rises to his finest self during trying times, the more trying the times, the finer the rising. Or it is in times of disaster that the Filipino ceases to be a disaster, thinking of others first before self.

Joan commented, upon sentence, "My body is your property, but my love is not. My love is my own, and I shall love you fiercely while you kill me.

You say we could lose our lives for this child. I would consider that the greatest honor that could come to my family.

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

I prayed to dispel my fear, until suddenly, and I do not know how the idea came to me, I began to pray for others. I prayed for everyone who came into my thoughts - - people with whom I had traveled, those who had been in prison with me, my school friends of years ago. I do not know how long I continued my prayer, but this I do know - - my fear was gone! Interceding for others had released me!

Willem didn't try to change people, just to serve them.

Unseen by either of us, Father had appeared in the doorway. "Give the child to me, Corrie," he said. Father held the baby close, his white beard brushed its cheek, looking into the little face with eyes as blue and innocent as the baby's own. At last he looked up at the pastor. "You say we could lose our lives for this child. I would consider that the greatest honor that could come to my family." The pastor turned sharply on his heels and walked out of the room.

Lord Jesus, I offer myself for Your people. In any way. Any place. Any time.

Mama's love had always been the kind that acted itself out with soup pot and sewing basket. But now that these things were taken away, the love seemed as whole as before. She sat in her chair at the window and loved us. She loved the people she saw in the street—and beyond: her love took in the city, the land of Holland, the world. And so I learned that love is larger than the walls that shut it in.