Quotes about Selflessness
To follow implies not only the denying of one's own clarity, investigation, integrity and honesty, but it also implies that your motive in following is reward.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
I sought neither preeminence, glory, nor riches; my honor was that Jesus Christ should reign.
- John Knox
You saw we could lose our lives for this child. I would consider that the greatest honor that could come to my family.
- Corrie Ten Boom
Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.
- Livy
He is truly great that is little in himself, and that maketh no account of any height of honors.
- Thomas a Kempis
If we give God things in hope that they'll earn us blessings, we're really not doing anything for him. It's for ourselves.
- Timothy Keller
Humor is the opposite of all self-admiration and self-praise.
- Karl Barth
There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.
- Ronald Reagan
Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren
The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.
- Mark Twain
The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
- Booker T. Washington
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
- Audrey Hepburn