Quotes about Selflessness
By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.
- Gordon Hinckley
The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To live a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You know, help others. But that's really the essence of the Christian faith.
- Joel Osteen
It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is not a possession to be defended, but a gift to be shared.
- Henri Nouwen
Think it not hard if you get not your will, nor your delights in this life; God will have you to rejoice in nothing but himself.
- Samuel Rutherford
Life wants you to serve something more than yourself. When you serve something more than yourself, you are served. It's the most ironic thing in the world.
- Tony Robbins
Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it.
- CS Lewis
The way not to lead a monotonous life is to live for others.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
To be a saint is to be a little out of one's mind, which is a very good thing to be a little out of from time to time. It is to live a life that is always giving itself away and yet is always full.
- Frederick Buechner
Quit praying about yourself and spend your life for the sake of others as the bondservant of Jesus. That is the true meaning of being broken bread and poured-out wine in real life.
- Oswald Chambers
Focusing on ourselves will never reveal our life's purpose.
- Rick Warren
Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.
- John Wooden