Quotes About Selfless

A good woman of this type is a kind of trampoline. People bounce on her and fly. And if they fall they bounce on her again and rise again. She doesn't seek flight for herself but she spreads herself wide and people use her to climb as high as they can go.

The opportunist thinks of me and today. The statesman thinks of us and tomorrow.

This loving intelligence is what you merge with in meditation when you lay down the ego and go from selfish to selfless, when you become pure consciousness—no longer a body in the environment or in linear time but, instead, no body, no one, no thing, in no place and no time. That's when you become simply an awareness in an infinite field of possibility.

Ego is impurity. Be selfless. Consecrate and dedicate your life to perfection.

You'll never find just emptiness or just compassion alone. On this elemental level, they are never divorced. It's a somewhat romantic image—this universe of space and energy as passionate, loving, and selfless all at once.

Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront.

Mothers are those wonderful people who can get up in the morning before the smell of coffee.

Firefighters are some of the most selfless public servants you will ever encounter.

The martyr sacrifices herself entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for she makes the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.

I love the idea of what America is. America is a bunch of people that do these incredible, thankless, selfless jobs that nobody really knows about that makes that American dream possible.

I am just an actor, but there are these other people who are really selfless. I come from a long line of nurses in my family, and they really do a thankless job.

To be a teacher you have to have a very giving, selfless personality. I don't think I'm that selfless and giving.

The greatest teacher has nothing to say. He simply gives himself in service, and never worries.

God delights to pour His love into us. Why? Because, as I said, God keeps nothing for Himself. From eternity God had His only begotten Son, and the Father gave Him all things, and nothing

Acts 16:9 is the meddler's motto, simultaneously selfless and self-serving, generous but stuck-up. Into every generation of Americans is born a new crop of buttinskys sniffing out the latest Macedonia that may or may not want their help.

Ray-Ray had been on track for a golden-rule life of selfless service.

Leadership is essentially an other-centred activity not self centred one

A pure love is a selfless love, but can desire ever be selfless?

Charity is unconscious of itself, there is no accumulation first and then distribution. It is like the flower - natural, open, spontaneous.

A person enjoys own protection bestowed by invisible God from the negative people in proportion to selfless good intention for others.

An identity of a foolish personality is that he does not speak/do anything against unjust laws/atrocity if a selfless person asks him with honesty to thwart the injustice, but begins to participate or support the protest by seeing on street the plenty of dubious/selfish people led by a crafty who is covertly a part of crook authority only

Better to appreciate a person by own selfless thinking only than his/her ranking projected through media publicly.

Christine and I haven't raised our children. A whole community of selfless Christians has contributed to helping them become faithful, competent adults.

For all the value that the true, the truthful, the selfless may deserve, it would still be possible that a higher and more fundamental value for life might have to be ascribed to deception, selfishness, and lust. It might even be possible that what constitutes the value of these good and revered things is precisely that they are insidiously related, tied to, and involved with these wicked, seemingly opposite things—maybe even one with them in essence. Maybe!