Quotes about Selflessness
True humility is a kind of self-annihilation; and this is the centre of all virtues.
- John Wesley
You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden
You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden
It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.
- John Wooden
You can't live a perfect day until you do something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden
Happiness begins where selfishness ends.
- John Wooden
Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.
- John Wooden
The grace of Christ in the soul is developing traits of character that are the opposite of selfishness—traits that will refine, ennoble, and enrich the life.
- Ellen White
They brought ruin upon themselves by refusing to minister to others.
- Ellen White
There is no limit to the good you may do.
- Ellen White
We can receive of heaven's light only as we are willing to be emptied of self.
- Ellen White
When thou makest a dinner or a supper," Christ says, "call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbours; lest they also bid thee again, and a recompence be made thee. But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind: and thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee: for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.
- Ellen White