Quotes about Selflessness

Do not jockey for position or try to prove your importance to others with a lot of hollow, empty boasting and self-promotion. Instead, have a modest opinion of yourself, and learn to recognize the outstanding contributions that others have to impart.

Significance in life doesn't come from status, because you can always find somebody who's got more than you. It doesn't come from sex. It doesn't come from salary. It comes from serving.

It's not about you.

True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less. Humility is thinking more of others.

Good People Do Things For Other People. That's It. The End.

But the true emperor, Luke insists, is not the one who feeds himself but who is willing to offer his life as food for the other. At the climax of his life, this child, come of age, would say to his friends, "This is my body, which will be given for you' do this in memory of me" (Lk 22:19).

We never give up wanting things for ourselves, but there comes a day when what we want for ourselves is someone else's happiness.

Once you become the mommy or daddy in your child's world, it is the only world in which you exist, no matter how much you fancy there is a separate world of your own.

Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one.

Our sacrifice is greater than his, cried Rilla passionately. Our boys give only themselves. We give them.

Can I help you? said Jane. Though Jane herself had no inkling of it, those words were the keynote of her character. Any one else would probably have said, What is the matter? But Jane always wanted to help: and, though she was too young to realize it, the tragedy of her little existence was that nobody ever wanted her help.