Quotes About Selflessness

Do the kind of things that come from the heart, When you do, you won't be dissatisfied, you won't be envious, you won't be longing for somebody else's things. On the contrary, you'll be overwhelmed with what comes back.

Remember when you leave this Earth, you can take with you nothing that you have received. Only what you have given.

True friendship isn't about being there when it's convenient; It's about being there when it's not...

Your greatest test is when you are able to bless someone while you are going through your own storm.

We can't always give those we love everything they want from us, but we shall always try to give them what we believe is good for them.

Unreasonable Moments Of Life : Giving someone a hug when you need it the most yourself. Fighting back the tears in your eyes just to wipe off someone else's.

True heroes are those that go that extra mile for someone. That put their heart and soul in helping others. True heroes have a HEART OF GOLD! God bless all the heroes.

True friends are not the ones who are there when its convenient. True friends are there when its not.

Aquarius never see it as a 'task' being there for people. We genuinely love being the one making someone's day easier.

Respect people who find time for you in their busy schedule...But love people who never look at their schedule when you need them.

Physical love, so unfairly disparaged, compels people to manifest the very smallest particles they possess of goodness, of self-abnegation, so much so that these particles glow even in the eyes of those immediately surrounding them.

Monsieur, there are people who keep nothing of their life for themselves, not one minute, not one pleasure, the whole thing is a sacrifice for others, they are lives that are given away.

Which was for me the true friend, Mme. de Montmorency, so glad always to annoy me and always so ready to oblige, or Mme. de Guermantes, distressed by the slightest offence that might have been given me and incapable of the slightest effort to be of use to me?

there is always less egoism in pure imagination than in recollection;

it was the bridle which, so as to avoid all appearance of egotism, she herself used to curb the gratification which her friend was attempting to procure for her.

Kadar ?lovek ljubi, je ljubezen prevelika, da bi jo mogel obdržati vso v sebi samem; tedaj ljubezen izžareva proti ljubljenemu bitju, naleti v njem na ploskev, ki jo prestreže in odbije proti izhodiš?u, in ta odboj lastnih ?ustev imamo za ljubezen onega drugega bitja ter smo od nje vsi o?arani, saj ne spoznamo, da izvira iz nas.

Ah! Monsieur, there are people who keep nothing of their life for themselves, not one minute, not one pleasure, the whole thing is a sacrifice for others, they are lives that are given away

i tuoi romanzi ... sono sempre rimasti in camera da letto, umilmente, accanto a te; li prendevi in prestito oppure, quando li compravi, li regalavi subito, desiderosa com'eri di passare ad altri il piacere di quelle letture. ... (pagina 78)

We serve others as much by our weaknesses as by our strengths. The only difficult is that it takes humility and courage to be able to live by it.

A man makes no noise over a good deed, but passes on to another as a vine to bear grapes again in season.

The key principle, however, is this: power must be exercised wholly for the benefit of others and not for the benefit of the leader. Christian leadership, modelled on Jesus' leadership, is self-giving, not self- serving.

The antidote to a culture of self- promoting leaders is one where leaders – and everyone else – repent often and forgive often, delighting themselves in the Lord, praying and praising him for the glory of his wonderful grace. A culture, therefore, in which leaders can lead out of weakness, no longer needing to be impressive or having to prove themselves to receive praise and affirmation from people.

Service is selflessness--the opposite of the lifestyle that we see so much of in America today. The things that entertain us don't often lift us up, or show us as the people we can rise up to become. The people who appear in this book--and others who did things I can't talk about--are my role models. They quietly live out the idea expressed in the Bible (John 15:13): "Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

I would rather have men ask why I have no statue than why I have one.