Quotes About Selflessness

Jesus makes it clear that to follow Him, we must first count the cost. There is a price to following Jesus, and He makes the amount certain. The price is nothing short of our lives!

Use your liberty in Christ to set others free, not to assert your own rights.

It's possible to want intellectual stimulation, emotional gratification and social usefulness but not to want God. Because if you really want God in your life, you have to give up your own will, and that shows us the difference between someone who is actually trying to use God and someone who is trying to serve God. to use God is to seek him for what we can get out of Him. To serve God, is to be entirely motivated by our love for him.

Discouragement occurs in deserts or battles from focusing on ourselves rather than on God and our mission.

I'm not sure any cause is worth giving your life for

Nor do we believe that we will not matter if we don't give care to others.

What's dooty, if you won't carry it to the other side of Hell? What's the use of yapping about your country if you're going to keep something back when she calls for it? What's the good of meaning to win the war if you don't put every cent you've got on your stake?... No, Dick, that kind of dooty don't deserve a blessing. You dursn't keep anything back if you want to save your soul.

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about themselves, and small people talk about others

The bottom line in managing your emotions is that you should put others – not yourself – first in how you handle and process them. Whether you delay or display your emotions should not be for your own gratification. You should ask yourself, What does the team need? Not, What will make me feel better?

People with humility don't think less of themselves; they just think of themselves less.

Getters generally don't get happiness; givers get it.

The great men and women of history were not great because of what they earned and owned, but rather for what they gave their lives to accomplish.

Be more concerned about making others feel good about themselves than you are in making them feel good about you.

There is no life as empty as the self-centered life. There is no life as centered as the self-empty life.

Paul the Apostle exhorted, "Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others." 74 Make a mental and emotional commitment to look out for the interests of others.

The happiest people are those who have invested their time in others. The unhappiest people are those who wonder how the world is going to make them happy.

Marriage, like any long-term relationship, requires us to . . . wade through a few things that are difficult. work for many things that are needed. wait on some things that take time. watch out for those things that can be harmful. wave good-bye to personal things that are selfish.

One of the great ironies of life is that if you give up your life, you gain it. If you help others, you benefit. If you lose yourself, you find yourself.

When somebody loves you with no strings attached and no personal agenda, it's the most freeing thing in the world.

You have not lived a perfect day, unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you. No man becomes rich unless he enriches others.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for someone else. —BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.

Winning teams have players who put the good of the team ahead of themselves. They want to play in their area of strength, but they're willing to do what it takes to take care of the team. They are willing to sacrifice their role for the greater goal.

The key to developing charisma: Be more concerned about making others feel good about themselves than you are in making them feel good about you.