Quotes about Selflessness

We must want for others, not ourselves alone.

Want to snatch a day from the manacles of boredom? Do overgenerous deeds, acts beyond reimbursement. Kindness without compensation. Do a deed for which you cannot be repaid.

When you live your life in alignment with a purpose that is centered on selflessly adding value for others, opportunities become abundant and your life becomes fulfilled.

To have serpentlike qualities devoid of dovelike qualities is to be passionless, mean, and selfish.

Power flows to those who serve.

It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love is put in the giving.

It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

It is impossible to be both selfish and happy

I do not look at myself. I have given up myself. I had to, you know, after the murder. That was what it did for me. And that was how everything began

Those who choose to be servants know the most about being free.

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.

To speak to Him thus is easier by nature for woman than for man because a natural desire lives in her to give herself completely to someone. When she has once realized that no one other than God is capable of receiving her completely for Himself and that it is sinful theft toward God to give oneself completely to one other than Him, then the surrender is no longer difficult and she becomes free of herself.