Quotes About Selflessness

That best portion of a good man's life,His little, nameless, unremembered actsOf kindness and of love.

The best portion of a good man's life is his little nameless, unencumbered acts of kindness and of love.

Bagian terbaik dari hidup seseorang adalah perbuatan-perbuatan baiknya dan kasihnya yang tidak diketahui orang lain.

My mother, Myrtle, once wrote...I will eliminate hatred, envy, jealousy, selfishness, and cynicism by developing love for all humanity...we all become better people just by trying to ban negativity from our thoughts and our lives.

Don't talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave.

some are willing to help others enter into the land of Canaan to reach God's glorious goal, but they have no desire to enter into God's glorious goal to inherit the land themselves.

if we lust for ease and comfort today—caring only for ourselves, stopping halfway, and giving up our rights in the matter of pursuing the Lord—we will not be able to recover those rights; neither will there be any compensation for them. This is an eternal loss.

If you think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself.

No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

No thoughtful man ever came to the end of his life, and had time and a little space of calm from which to look back upon it, who did not know and acknowledge that it was what he had done unselfishly and for others, and nothing else, that satisfied him in the retrospect, and made him feel that he had played the man.

We can have no sympathy with those who seek the power of government to advance their own personal interests or ambitions.

You are here to enrich the world and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

All the happiness in the world comes from thinking of others; all the suffering in the world comes from thinking of only oneself." By concerning yourself with the problems of others, your own problems become diminished, both in perspective, because you realize that perhaps other people have more serious obstacles than yours, and in reality, because when you stop focusing on your own difficulties they lose their mastery over you.

The person who desires to leave things better than he found them, who does more than his share, who is not attached to rewards, who is always seeking to benefit others, who knows he is cared for and rewarded by the Universe for his every effort, is able to act selflessly, without expectation of a reward or a return, without thought of advantage, and of him it is said, "He is better than the best," and, of course, he is greatly rewarded.

Why aren't you happy? It's because ninety-nine percent of everything you do, and think, and say, is for yourself -- and there isn't one.

We are here on earth to do good for others. What the others are here for, I don't know.

There is a deep—and usually frustrated—desire in the heart of everyone to act with benevolence rather than selfishness, and one fine instance of generosity can inspire dozens more.

Life meaning is always a derivative phenomenon that materializes when we have transcended ourselves, when we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves.

We are not called to be successful in accordance with ordinary standards, but in accordance with a corn of wheat falling into the ground and dying, becoming in that way what it never could be if it were to abide alone.

What we spend, we lose. What we keep will be left for others. What we give away will be ours forever.

The main shift, you see, is from placing self at the center of our thoughts to putting others there. It is-what do you say?-a paradox that the more we can focus our thoughts on the well-being of others, the happier we become. The first one to benefit is oneself. I call this being wisely selfish.

It is the wonderful paradox," he continued, "that the best way to achieve happiness for oneself is to give happiness to others.

Be wisely selfish, little Snow Lion. Gain happiness for yourself by giving it to others.

Two main true causes of happiness: first, the wish to give happiness to others, which Buddhists define as love, and second, the wish to help free others from dissatisfaction or suffering, which we define as compassion.