Quotes about Selflessness

Those who tell the Truth love you. Those who tell you what you want to hear love themselves.

You'll never catch me bragging about goals, but I'll talk all you want about my assists.

God only wants for us what we would want for ourselves if we were smart enough to want it.

Love is not a matter of getting what you want. Quite the contrary. The insistence on always having what you want, on always being satisfied, on always being fulfilled, makes love impossible.

Go to the cross of Christ, all you that want to be delivered from the power of selfishness.

Mary's greatness consists in the fact that she wants to magnify God, not herself.

Selfishness is like a disease that suffocates our capacity to love. While love asks us to deny ourselves for the sake of another, selfishness demands we put ourselves first at their expense. When we choose to be self-centered, we become less kind and content—more needy, sensitive, and demanding. More unsatisfiable. Moodiness and impatience, laziness and irresponsibility, are only selfishness in disguise.

It always does what is best for others and can empower us to face the greatest of problems." (love)

A happy life is a life for others.

The lives of truest heroism are those in which there are no great deeds to look back upon. It is the little things well done that go to make up a truly successful and good life.

The greatest moments in life are not concerned with selfish achievements, but rather with the things we do for others

It is impossible to need excuses when the focus of your life shifts from 'What's in it for me?' to 'How can I serve?'