Quotes About Selfless

Love is a selfless service to mankind like a showcase done by the twinkling stars in beautiful nightly sky.

Love isn't self-centered, even at the supreme scale.

Here the Buddha repeats what he said in previous chapters. These chapters make important points that are worth repeating: that the bodhisattva's focus is always on selfless service to others, that there are no others, and that there is no such thing as enlightenment. If you understand these three points, you understand everything. If you understand just one of the points, you understand everything. Each is a different aspect of the same truth.

By showing us what moves God, the Bible also shows what should motivate our goodness. Jesus commends the one leper who returns to give him thanks. The commendation teaches us not only the importance of honoring God but also that such honor should not spring primarily from a desire for personal gain but rather from the delight of selfless gratitude.

False repentance is less concerned with the spiritual contamination of sin than it is with the personal consequences of sin. True repentance is chiefly concerned with the wrong we have done to our Savior and to others. Repentance of the first kind is self-preoccupied; true repentance is a selfless seeking of spiritual fellowship and renewal. False repentance flees correction; true repentance seeks it.

He would change my life and behave with selfless cruelty as he prepared to set out on a journey with no hope of return.

Caricatured as navel-gazers, Millennials are said to live for their 'likes' and status updates. But the young people I know often leverage social media in selfless ways.

Don't be afraid to take risks. Create a vision for you life. Be a leader in your own life. Give of yourself selflessly to make a positive change in another human being.

The Framers of the Constitution expected the presidency to be occupied by special individuals, selfless people of the highest character and ability. They intended the Electoral College to be a truly deliberative body, not the largely ceremonial institution it has become today.

My teammates trust me; they know I make the right plays. I'm not a selfish guy.

I don't know if I'm selfless - I still want to make a great record. I want to make a hit record. I want to tour; that's not completely selfless. But the truth is I'm not interested in people coming to my show for me as much as I am for them coming to my show for themselves. That's always been how I am.

On the silver screen, capitalists are usually vilified as greedy and heartless, while statists of every stripe are depicted as selfless, romantic idealists who only want to help people.

I'm not promoting myself as the next great American driver, as some people are describing me. If that's what people want to call me, fine. But I've got more important things to focus on.

If it's making you miserable then it's not love.

Love is selfish yet a selfless feeling.

Selfish love hurts, selfless love heals.

Forgiveness is a selfless gift of love to others.

To mention it was to ask a favor and that as you were too generous, and as for her to ask was always to have, she wouldn't

I don't think a player like Messi is a selfish player.

Military firefighters put their lives on the line each day - not just to defend our country, but also to selflessly defend their fellow servicemembers.

If the human species has been able to make any progress, it is because of our heart of love and compassion. We need to learn from compassionate beings how to develop the practice of deep observation for the sake of others. Then others will be able to learn from us the way to live in the present and see the impermanent and selfless nature of all that is. This insight will lighten suffering.

The lives of all the men we meet and know are woven into our own destiny, together with the lives of many we shall never know on earth. But certain ones, very few, are our close friends. Because we have more in common with them, we are able to love them with a special selfless perfection, since we have more to share. They are inseparable from our own destiny, and, therefore, our love for them is especially holy: it is a manifestation of God in our lives.

ONE of the paradoxes of the mystical life is this: that a man cannot enter into the deepest center of himself and pass through that center into God, unless he is able to pass entirely out of himself and empty himself and give himself to other people in the purity of a selfless love.

Love is free; it does not depend on the desirability of its object, but loves for love's sake.