Quotes about Selflessness
As it is more blessed to give than receive, so it must be more blessed to receive than to give back.
- Robert Frost
In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be the gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
The more there is of mine, the less there is of yours.
- Lewis Carroll
It is the one of the great secrets of life that those things are most worth doing,we do for others.
- Lewis Carroll
If you pardon all the evil done to you, you encourage others to do you evil! If you give your cloak to him who steals your coat, how long will it be, before your shirt and trousers will go also?
- Lewis Carroll
The point is that love gives even when it is not returned. Once Love has chosen, He does not change His mind.
- Lisa Bevere
The wise person doesn't ask, "What have I achieved?" but rather, "What have I contributed?"
- Marianne Williamson
It is our first duty to serve society, and after we have done that, we may attend wholly to the salvation of our own souls.
- Samuel Johnson
We can only keep what we have by being willing to freely give it away; a paraphrase of Jesus Christ.
- Anonymous
Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.
- Nikolai Berdyaev
It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do kindness to others.
- Aristotle
The main task of the spirit is to free man from his ego.
- Albert Einstein