Quotes About Selflessness

Only the chef puts into practice the teachings of Jesus, that the greatest of you should serve others.

Reach out a helping hand without any hidden agenda, or desire to achieve more in return.

Self-interest must be sacrificed before one can enter through the door of philosophy.

Self-interest must be sacrificed if you wish to keep your marriage alive, or to keep your significant one attracted to your attributes.

Since you have accepted the gift of a Friend, you must be ready to do anything for His sake.

The best time to give is when no one is expecting anything from you. Give when others don't ask you to.

The colours of true love exist in helping a stranger rather than helping those familiar to you, or your own kind only.

The Creator only gives, but does not expect anything from us. He invests in us without expecting any interest in return.

The only disadvantage of life is to come in contact with someone who does not know when and how to put their self-interest behind the closed doors.

The 'I' is the ego that we must avoid at any cost, if we truly wish to be different from narcissists. Instead of using 'I' repeatedly, it would be wise to replace it with 'we'.

True love only comes from ordinary people. They are the ones who give even to those who do not deserve it.

We can see that the giver is always the winner at the end of the game. While the receiver is the loser. Therefore, give before taking or depending on others daily.

You can do very well without a wife or a woman without a man. But in order not to be too selfish or to not end the cycle of a new generation, we must marry at all costs.

You can give something and get it back in a different way, without asking for anything in exchange.

You cannot expect to keep receiving without giving something back, or paying the price for every pleasure that you wish to enjoy.

You must break away from all the rules of selfishness and make sharing as your new motto in marriage.

Submission is the willingness to give up our right to ourselves, to freely surrender our insistence on having our own way all the time.

is chosen freely, not imposed from without. Essentially, submission is the willingness to give up our right to ourselves, to freely surrender our insistence on having our own way all the time. Submission means putting the needs, rights, and welfare of another person ahead of our own. A marriage built on this kind of submission will grow healthy, strong, and fulfilling.

Love is an ongoing debt that we owe each other, a debt that should never be paid off. Paul made this clear when he wrote to the believers in Rome, "Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for he who loves his fellowman has fulfilled the law" (Rom. 13:8). If we get into the habit of thinking of ourselves as always owing a debt of love to our spouses, we will be less inclined to take offense when they say or do something that we do not like.

If you keep people down so they dont become better than you, you gotta stay there to keep them down so you dont progress yourself. What kind of wahala (Suffering) is that ? Leave them to progress so you can expand.

There is strength in humility and weakness in pride.

To begin with, you have to grasp the fact that Christian virtue isn't about you—your happiness, your fulfillment, your self-realization. It's about God and God's kingdom, and your discovery of a genuine human existence by the paradoxical route—the route God himself took in Jesus Christ!—of giving yourself away, of generous love which constantly refuses to take center stage.

The Christians would stay and nurse people. Sometimes they caught the disease and died. People were astonished. What was that about? Oh, they replied, we are followers of this man Jesus. He put his life on the line to save us. So that's what we do as well.

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice.