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Quotes About Selflessness

That home is most beautiful in which you find each person striving to serve the other.
~ David O. McKay
Modi winning or not winning is not important. I can go home tomorrow & open a tea stall but the nation must not suffer.
~ Narendra Modi
I'm not a handsome guy, but I can give my hand to someone who needs help. Beauty is in the heart, not in the face.
~ Abdul Kalam
I think you gotta have an honesty and a humility about human nature and that it's not about you at the end of the day.
~ Philip Seymour Hoffman
You saw we could lose our lives for this child. I would consider that the greatest honor that could come to my family.
~ Corrie Ten Boom
There are plenty to follow our Lord half-way, but not the other half. They will give up possessions, friends and honors, but it touches them to closely to disown themselves.
~ Meister Eckhart
Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.
~ Livy
Because he (the Sage) demands no honor, he will never be dishonored.
~ Laozi
Your father died for me, and dying with you would be an honor, though not as great as dying to save you.
~ N.D. Wilson, Leepike Ridge
He is truly great that is little in himself, and that maketh no account of any height of honors.
~ Thomas a Kempis
We all have the luxury of looking out for ourselves. Leaders also have the honor of looking out for others.
~ Simon Sinek
Total openness to serving others is our hallmark, it alone is our title of honour!
~ Pope Francis
Maybe it's a little crazy, but it's good to have it, but I just don't like [prizes or honors].
~ Pope Francis
I did not come into this Army to serve one man, to serve a friend.
~ Jeff Shaara, A Blaze of Glory
I hope it's enabling me to deal with another human being who's more important to me than I am.
~ Michael Zaslow
You get older. You start having hopes for other people rather than yourself.
~ Bob Dylan
If you want to be a bridge of hope to the world, you've got to allow yourself to be walked on
~ Tommy Barnett
We can begin to open our hearts to others when we have no hope of getting anything back. We just do it for its own sake.
~ Pema Chodron
The greatest joys in life are found not only in what we do and feel, but also in our quiet hopes and labors for others.
~ Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
Don't say that you want to give, but go ahead and give! You'll never catch up with a mere hope.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If we give God things in hope that they'll earn us blessings, we're really not doing anything for him. It's for ourselves.
~ Timothy Keller
I do what I do without hope of reward or fear of punishment. I do not require Heaven or Hell to bribe or scare me into acting decently.
~ Mary Doria Russell
I always try to do something for my husband that's completely selfless, and something that I hope will rock his world in some form or fashion.
~ Jessica Alba
Salvation never will come through hope of reward.
~ Swami Vivekananda