Quotes About Selflessness

the role of the Do-Gooder is not what actors call a fat part.

The age of selfishness and greed is over. The age of kindness and generosity is underway.

Some show their kindness to the poor by employing them in their kitchens. Would they not be kinder if they employed themselves there?

I prefer to make a mistake because I am too kind than to perform miracles without any kindness.

The merit of persons is to be no rule of our charity, but we are to do acts of kindness to those that least deserve it.

The richest gifts we can bestow are the least marketable. We hate the kindness which we understand.

We are not here to enjoy the things on earth, but to pass them around. The people who do it are the happiest people you know!

It is a luxury to put our interests first. It is an honor to put the interests of others before our own.

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.

Whoever said kindness should be earned is wrong. A kick in the shins is earned - kindness should be a given.

I'd rather have people hate me with the knowledge that I tried to save them.

Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice.

Four things will shame the students of knowledge: Criticizing people, praising themselves, not teaching the knowledge,and not practicing what they know.

In order to stave off covetouness, greed, and spite, citizens world over must be educated.

Do not glory in your own faith, your own feelings, your own knowledge, or your own diligence. Glory in nothing but Christ.

As always in Christian service, he will find his life in losing it. His fears of men will diminish as his loving service to them increases. It is more blessed to give than to receive. Personal blessing comes not by seeking blessing, however, but by becoming a blessing to others.

Death is only the end if you assume the story is about you." This

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

That man is good who does good to others; if he suffers on account of the good he does, he is very good; if he suffers at the hands of those to whom he has done good, then his goodness is so great that it could be enhanced only by greater sufferings; and if he should die at their hands, his virtue can go no further: it is heroic, it is perfect.

Slowly but surely I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her

Slowly but surly I want to strip her of every kind of happiness as to make a saint of her.

When you act you are one with the action, it is only afterwards that the ego appropriates the act from which it was absent, and says "I have done this." At the moment of acting there is only acting, without an actor.

I really believe there are some people who hate to contemplate the happiness of others.

If we are to grow in love, the prisons of our egoism must be unlocked. This implies suffering, constant effort and repeated choices.