Quotes about Selflessness
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
The highest mental health is not liking myself but being joyfully interested in everything but myself.
- John Piper
Job found contentment and even joy, outside the context of comfort, health or stability. He understood the story was not about him, and he cared more about the story then he did about himself.
- Donald Miller
If you ever need a helping hand, it is at the end of your arm. As you get older you must remember you have a second hand. The first one is to help yourself. The second hand is to help others.
- Audrey Hepburn
Seek always to do some good, somewhere... Even if it's a little thing, so something for those that need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.
- Albert Schweitzer
When it comes to helping out, I don't believe in doing it for the media attention. My goal is to support the organizations that need help.
- Paul Allen
As a culture, were so worried about whats going to happen to us 30 years from now that we are not taking care of our brothers and sisters who need help today.
- Francis Chan
Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.
- George W. Bush
Flattery is saying something nice in order to help yourself. Encouragement is saying something true in order help someone else.
- Kevin DeYoung
You need an attitude of service. You're not just serving yourself. You help others to grow up and you grow with them.
- David Green
The great leaders in history were great not because of what they owned or earned but because of what they gave their lives to accomplish. They made a difference!
- John Maxwell
That home is most beautiful in which you find each person striving to serve the other.
- David O. McKay