Quotes About Selflessness

You shouldn't expect a thank-you in life just for doing the right thing.

Don't be thanking me," he says. "You shouldn't expect a thank-you in life just for doing the right thing. That's something the politicians will never understand. Priests too.

You shouldn't expect a thank-you in life just for doing the right thing. That's something the politicians will never understand.

A vida só se dá para quem se deu.

The householder by digging tanks, by planting trees on the roadsides, by establishing rest-houses for men and animals, by making roads and building bridges, goes towards the same goal as the greatest Yogi.

Nishkâma Karma, or work without desire or attachment.

To work we have the right, but not to the fruits thereof:" Leave the fruits alone. Why care for results? If you wish to help a man, never think what that man's attitude should be towards you. If you want to do a great or a good work, do not trouble to think what the result will be.

sacrifice your life for the good of others—this is my wish and blessing.

Be unattached, expect nothing in return, attachment comes only where we expect a return, love shines in freedom alone.

The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him.

Be generous. Give to those you love; give to those who love you, give to the fortunate, give to the unfortunate — yes, give especially to those you don't want to give. You will receive abundance for your giving. The more you give, the more you will have.

For any mental or physical pain or suffering, regardless of how severe it might be, can in great part be neutralized by the satisfaction and joy of trying to help others. And that's worth living for.

Boasting is always an advertisement of poverty.

Christ died for us so that He, risen and alive, might now come and dwell within us, so that we might no longer be egocentric, self-oriented, living only for our own interests: "He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again" (2 Corinthians 5: 15). Never be sorry for your self. Just be sorry for your sin! All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. ROMANS 3: 23

If equal affection cannot be, Let the more loving one be me.

poverty proved greater than vanity...

I offer you what I have my Poverty

The winner gives up his chance to be a good sport.

Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves.

To celebrate the heart of Christmas is to forget ourselves in the service of others.

Let us remember that the Christmas heart is a giving heart, a wide open heart that thinks of others first.

Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting.

Christmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving.

We celebrate the birth of one who told us to give everything to the poor by giving each other motorized tie racks.