Quotes About Selflessness

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.

The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

I'll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it's sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

I tell young people: Do not think of yourself, think of others. Think of the future that awaits you, think about what you can do and do not fear anything.

When you can't get a miracle, you can still be a miracle for someone else.

The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.

There is another element that is a part of human happiness — and that is that unless we think of others and do something for them we miss the greatest sources of happiness.

You cannot be a Big person with a Small heart

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

Love is the perception of individuals. Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real.

If I am only happy for myself, many fewer chances for happiness. If I am happy when good things happen to other people, billions more chances to be happy!

He who stays not in his littleness, loses his greatness.

Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others.

God seeks us where we are, not so that we stay there, but so that we may come to be where He is, so that we may get beyond ourselves.

When selflessness is seen in objects, the seed of cyclic existence is destroyed.

There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things.

It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.

We'd like to be humble...but what if no one notices?

What I spent, is gone; what I kept, I lost; but what I gave away will be mine forever.