Quotes about Selflessness

He who serves the most grows the fastest.

That would hurt the one I love the most.

As leaders, we are never responsible for filling anyone else's cup. Our responsibility is to empty ours.

So, leveraging Jesus' teaching on love, Paul gives us the grown-up version of what love really is. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. (1 Cor 13:4 — 8)

Patience is simply a way of putting the other person first. Patience is an expression of submission.

Love fills the gaps. Love reduces the friction created by our limited insight, knowledge, and judgment-inhibiting experiences. There is much I don't know. There are things I'll never understand. But my ignorance does not impede my capacity to put others first.

The moment we step into a ring that requires someone to lose in order for us to win, we are no longer followers of Jesus.

As leaders, we are never responsible for filling anyone else's cup. Our responsibility is to empty ours.

As leaders, we are never responsible for filling anyone else's cup. Our responsibility is to empty ours.

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.

If we continue to seek learning to serve God and His children better, it is a blessing of great worth. If we begin to seek learning to exalt ourselves alone, it leads to selfishness and pride, which will take us away from eternal life.

If there were more temple work done in the Church, there would be less of selfishness, less of contention, less of demeaning others.