Quotes About Selflessness

If we are going to love, we will be able to love someone else even if we never get what we want.

La política requiere sacrificio. El sacrificio de los demás, por supuesto.

It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime.

we must come to realize that once we have kids, individualism is impractical and self-defeating.

Remember, no one cares what you want. Focus on delivering more than is expected every time and relieve yourself of the notion that anyone cares about your hopes and dreams. Find a pain point and solve it. It's that simple.

make that client the hero, not yourself.

2. It serves and inspires other beings and does not take from them or exploit them

Both men were transformers in life; they thought not of themselves but of a higher cause. They assumed truly heroic transformations in bringing to their societies the idea "you have been thinking one way, you now have to think a different way."399

The entire concept of pessimism crumbles the moment one human being puts aside thoughts of self and reaches out to another to minister to her suffering. The experience of either person can neither be denied nor adequately explained by a negative philosophy.

A man is too insignificant to be preoccupied with his failures. All of the energy he has is required for attending to the loneliness, the pain, the needs of others.

Love is a willingness to sacrifice.

Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.

If you have a deep-seated need to be loved and admired every day, you shouldn't be in politics. You should go work at a pet store.

The Buddhist version of poverty is a situation where you have nothing to contribute.

Though no law was written, there was a crude rule of law, adherence to a covenant that transcended their selfish interests. It was biblical in its depth, and its importance grew with each step into wilderness. When the need arose, a man extended a helping hand to his friends, to his partners, to strangers. In so doing, each knew that his own survival might one day depend upon the reaching grasp of another.

Though no law was written, there was a crude rule of law, adherence to a covenant that transcended their selfish interests. It was biblical in its depth, and its importance grew with each step into wilderness. When the need arose, a man extended a helping hand to his friends, to his partners, to strangers. In so doing, each knew that his own survival might one day depend upon the reaching grasp of another. The

Gracias. —¿Por qué? —Por regalarme un día más. —No lo hice por ti —reconoció con una sonrisa—, lo hice por motivos puramente egoístas. —El Alquimista arqueó las cejas a modo de pregunta silenciosa—. Lo hice por mí. No estaba dispuesta a vivir un día sin ti.

The Realistic Vision recognizes the need for strict moral education through parents, family, friends, and community because people have a dual nature of being selfish and selfless, competitive and cooperative, greedy and generous, and so we need rules and guidelines and encouragement to do the right thing.

Those were the words of a British army officer, and member of Captain Scott's doomed expedition to the South Pole, before walking out from his tent and into a blizzard. Knowing his gangrene and frostbite were hurting their chances of survival, he chose certain death, to relieve his friends of the burden of caring for him.

Light gives of itself freely, filling all available space. It does not seek anything in return; it asks not whether you are friend or foe. It gives of itself and is not thereby diminished.

While we may not be called to martyr our lives, we must martyr our way of life. We must put our selfish ways to death and march to a different beat. Then the world will see Jesus.

There's not much point to being alive if you don't do what you can to make life better for someone else, is there?

Far from being a way to achieve success, ease, and comfort, Christianity calls us to live a life that forgets self and focuses on being God's instrument to show his love to others.

Joining the corporate worship of the body of Christ requires that we allow something else—the good of the body—to supercede our personal preferences.