Quotes About Selflessness

If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.

The church is never a place to show off. Do your good deeds quietly. Serve; don't seek to be seen

It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain

For every idealistic peacemaker willing to renounce his self-defence in favour of a weapons-free world, there is at least one warmaker anxious to exploit the other's good intentions.

Good people are happy when something good happens to someone else.

What do we lose by another's good fortune? Let us celebrate with them, or strive to emulate them. That should be our desire and determination.

To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

A good way to forget your troubles is to help others out of theirs.

I don't think you're much good, unless you're doing good to someone.

The thing is, I don't do these things for recognition, being a good teammate, being a positive member of the community. I do them because those things make me whole and complete.

Don't give until it hurts, give until it feels good.

The minute you become conscious that you are doing good, that's the minute you have to stop because from then on it's wrong.

You should never do something kind in hopes of recognition. Do it because its right. Do it because it makes you feel good.

If you focus more on the inside, you'll feel just as great about the outside. I feel attractive when I'm doing good and helping people.

Be Good, Do Good.Do thou always without attachment perform action which should be done, for by performing action without attachment, man reaches the Supreme.

A saint is someone who has been very selfless and, over a period of lifetimes, generated a tremendous amount of good karma, which has caused them to enter into very lovely states of mind.

it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.

Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.

I possess every good quality, but the one that distinguishes me above all is modesty.

A sick body with a good heart is more beneficial to future lives than a fit, healthy body that is used for self-cherishing.

Being generous or doing things for others actually makes me feel good so I don't do it because I hope karma will come round and get me and I'll benefit from it.

I'm not about trying to get and get and get. I feel good when I get, but I kind of feel better when I give.

No one whose first concern is feeling good can be a disciple. We are called to carry a cross and to glorify God.

Everyone has to contribute to the common good. To not do so can be described in one word: selfish.