Quotes About Selflessness

That was what you did as a friend: you put the needs of each other above everything else. You were loyal to your own.

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.

the desire to sacrifice oneself for love is so otherworldly that it must have come from another world. It is so alien to the tooth and claw of natural selection that it must be the result of a supernatural selection.

You become most powerful in whatever you do if the action is performed for its own sake rather than as a means to protect, enhance, or conform to your role identity.

A genuine relationship is one that is not dominated by the ego with its image-making and self-seeking.

Enthusiasm and the ego cannot coexist.

The only actions that do not cause opposing reactions are those that are aimed at the good of all.

Ask yourself often: 'What can I give here; how can I be of service to this person, this situation?

When you give little or no help to others or put obstacles in their path, the universe—in the form of people and circumstances—gives little or no help to you because you have cut yourself off from the whole.

This diminishment of the ego gives rise to empathy and compassion beyond tribal, racial, national, or religious affiliations.

nonattachment to the fruit of your action is called Karma Yoga. It is described as the path of "consecrated action.

Once you have disidentified with yourself whether you are right or wrong makes no difference to your sense of self at all

What drives my life is not the desire to get along with other people or make friends so much as a moral obligation to give back as much as—no, more than—I take. That's karma. It's really not so far from the Golden Rule: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." Some

Whatever I may do to serve you will be prompted solely from selfish motives, since it gives me more pleasure to serve you than not.

And then again, had I declared myself I should have robbed the woman I love of the wealth and position that her marriage to Clayton will now insure to her. I could not have done that—could I, Paul?

To speak to Him thus is easier by nature for woman than for man because a natural desire lives in her to give herself completely to someone. When she has once realized that no one other than God is capable of receiving her completely for Himself and that it is sinful theft toward God to give oneself completely to one other than Him, then the surrender is no longer difficult and she becomes free of herself.

I felt there was no one as kind as you; no one who gave me reasons that I understood for doing what at first seemed so hard and--unnecessary.

Marriage is one long sacrifice.

She said she knew we were safe with you, and always would be, because once, when she asked you to, you'd given up the thing you most wanted.

But it is comparatively easy to behave beautifully when one is getting what one wants, and when some one else, who has not always been altogether kind, is not.

But in another moment she seemed to have descended from her womanly eminence to helpless and timorous girlhood; and he understood that her courage and initiative were all for others, and that she had none for herself. It was evident that the effort of speaking had been much greater than her studied composure betrayed, and that at his first word of reassurance she had dropped back into the usual, as a too adventurous child takes refuge in its mother's arms.

he understood that her courage and initiative were all for others, and that she had none for herself. It was evident that the effort of speaking had been much greater than her studied composure betrayed, and that at his first word of reassurance she had dropped back into the usual, as a too-adventurous child takes refuge in its mother's arms.

She was an auxiliary nurse but training to be a true nurse because that was her calling, to serve mankind. She was a Martha. There were Marys and Marthas, but Marys got all the limelight because of being Christ's handmaiden, but Marthas were far more sincere.

humility was the ultimate arrogance