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Quotes About Selflessness

Anonymously perform acts of kindness, expecting nothing in return-not even a thank you.
~ Wayne Dyer
It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That's why we're here, after all, to help others.
~ Carol Burnett
Act with kindness but do not expect gratitude.
~ Confucius
May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail to respond to the needs of others with kindness and compassion.
~ Thomas Jefferson
For your kindness, I'm in debt to you. For your selflessness, my admiration.
~ Natalie Merchant
If you can be kind and considerate for one day, then you can be for another. It won't cost you a penny in the world. Begin today.
~ Dale Carnegie
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
~ Andre Gide
The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.
~ Charles Kuralt
Every day, try to help someone who can't reciprocate your kindness.
~ John Wooden
He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.
~ Demosthenes
When a person finds themselves predisposed to complaining about how little they are regarded by others, let them reflect how little they have contributed to the happiness of others.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
Anonymously perform acts of kindness, expecting nothing in return, not even a thank-you. The universal all-creating Spirit responds to acts of kindness with the response: "How may I be kind to you?"
~ Wayne Dyer
Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.
~ Thomas Fuller
Don't be yourself - be someone a little nicer.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Giving is most blessed and most acceptable when the donor remains completely anonymous.
~ Maimonides
Kindness is the power that moves us to support and heal someone who offers nothing in return.
~ Lewis B. Smedes
Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink - under any circumstances.
~ Mark Twain
No matter how little you have, you can always give some of it away.
~ Catherine Marshall
Acting after being asked is compliance. Acting without being asked is kindness.
~ Ron Kaufman
Perfect kindness acts without thinking of kindness.
~ Laozi
Kindness and consideration of somebody besides yourself. I think that keeps you feeling young. I really do.
~ Betty White
You who are strong and swift, see that you do not limp before the lame, deeming it kindness.
~ Khalil Gibran
Kindness is something that I feel is leaving us a little bit - people are getting more self-involved.
~ Cobie Smulders
There is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness.
~ David Foster Wallace