Quotes About Selflessness

Being generous or doing things for others actually makes me feel good so I don't do it because I hope karma will come round and get me and I'll benefit from it.

Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.

When doing the heroic thing, the right thing, conflicts with your personal power, and you choose the right thing over the personal power thing, you have begun to understand what Agape is. It's thankless, it's difficult, yet it's what the greatest songs are sung of.

If you want to be happy, cultivate a passion, be part of something bigger than yourself (have a Cause other than that of yourself), avoid self-absorption and self-obsession, know thyself via knowing others and connecting with others. Above all, connect to more than yourself and your immediate nearest and dearest.

The greatest gift one can give is thanksgiving. In giving gifts, we give what we can spare, but in giving thanks we give ourselves.

Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.

Unselfish and noble acts are the most radiant epochs of the biography of souls.

With no mum or brothers or sisters, Alfie had to care for his father alone. Besides having to go to school and do his homework, the boy would do all the shopping, all the cleaning, cook all the meals, and do all the washing up. Alfie never complained though. He loved his dad with all his heart.

The man was a hero. He had given his life to save not just his son and Gabz, but all the children of the town.

Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.

Heroes. Brave men and women who lay down their lives for someone else... Our culture understands heroism. But we don't understand martyrs.

We have an infinite capacity for self interest, yet the infinite has absolutely no interest in us

Listen, here's what I think. I think we can't go around measuring our goodness by what we don't do. By what we deny ourselves. What we resist, and who we exclude. I think we've got to measure goodness by what we embrace, what we create, and who we include. —From the movie Chocolat

Being a hero, I guess, is a quiet thing.

I would give up everything for you, Giulia" I smiled at him gently. "But you must understand. I should never want a man to give up anything for me. I should want him to feel in winning me he has won the whole world...

Only you mattered in that moment. Only you. And I would have done anything to save you. I would have paid any price committed any sin sold my very soul to do it.

If there is one thing I have learnt in my years of Good Works, it is that thinking of others can be a blessed respite from thinking of oneself.

You do not yet know what it means to love someone more than yourself. I have no pride left, no delicacy. I cannot afford it. So I will tell you the truth: I wanted his happiness above all things.

but if love wasn't just yours first, it was like cutting up and handing out your birthday cake before you blew out the candles.

Someone who is self assured celebrates the accomplishments of others.

There are so many people in the world with so little. Who cares why you decide to help?

He'd sacrifice even his sanity for her. If it came down to it, he'd let her break his heart.Because he loved her.

Some say that "there is no such thing as free lunch". And, I ask, why not? The joy of giving without expecting anything in return from a particular source is simply magic.

Doing something nice for myself is not selfish.