Quotes about Selflessness

The completeness of Christian character is attained when the impulse to help and bless others springs constantly from within—when the sunshine of heaven fills the heart and is revealed in the countenance.—Christ's Object Lessons, pp. 383, 384.

it is good for a man to do right, and to leave happiness to take care of itself...

I should not want to live unless I could live to do some good to others.

You should never take more than you give.

The great wisdom traditions of the world all recognize that the main impediment to living a life of meaning is being self-absorbed.

The hardest spiritual work in the world is to love the neighbor as the self - to encounter another human being not as someone you can use, change, fix, help, save, enroll, convince or control, but simply as someone who can spring you from the prison of yourself, if you will allow it.

When you live in God, your day begins when you lose yourself long enough for God to find you, and when God finds you, to lose yourself

The midfielders are important: they have to offer themselves to receive the ball and make good use of it, take choices, try not to lose the ball and defend. But I don't feel like a leader at all.

This time we live in is saying, 'Live for yourself, and whatever makes you happy' and all this kind of stuff, and it's so contrary. And we so don't want to go and be reckless for the Lord.

For me, life isn't about being recognized or having everyone know who I am. That's not why I'm here. To me, my foundation is the most important thing I do or have ever done. That's what my life is about.

No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy except yourselves.

I hope that when I'm 90 years old, I've accomplished a legacy that isn't all about me. I hope it's a legacy about the people who our foundation helps.